Dr Alexander V. Georgiev

Lecturer in Primatology / Director of Teaching and Learning

Contact info

Wheldon Building, Room 030

Email: a.georgiev@bangor.ac.uk

Phone: +44 (0)1248 388288

https://www.zanzibarredcolobusproject.org

I am a behavioural ecologist and biological anthropologist specialising in research on primate reproductive ecology, physiology and conservation. I direct the Zanzibar Red Colobus Project, a new long-term study of an endangered and endemic primate. Together with my students, in Zanzibar we study how these animals are coping with human-induced changes to their habitat and how anthropogenic disturbance affects their behaviour, physiology, and reproduction.

  1. What cortisol can tell us about the costs of sociality and reproduction among free-ranging rhesus macaque females on Cayo Santiago

    Maestripieri, D. & Georgiev, A. V., 16 Jan 2015, In: American Journal of Primatology. 78, 1, p. 92-105

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  2. Trade-offs between acquired and innate immune defenses in humans

    McDade, T. W., Georgiev, A. V. & Kuzawa, C. W., 6 Jan 2016, In: Evolution, Medicine, & Public Health. 2016, 1, p. 1-16

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  3. Published

    Methodological confounds of measuring urinary oxidative stress in wild animals

    Melvin, Z., Dhirani, H., Mitchell, C., Davenport, T., Blount, J. & Georgiev, A. V., 17 Jul 2022, In: Ecology and Evolution. 12, 7, e9115.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  4. Published

    Alpha male status and availability of conceptive females are associated with high glucocorticoid concentrations in high-ranking male rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) during the mating season

    Milich, K. M., Georgiev, A. V., Petersen, R. M., Thompson, M. E. & Maestripieri, D., Jan 2018, In: Hormones and Behavior. 97, p. 5-13

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  5. Cospeciation of gut microbiota with hominids

    Moeller, A. H., Caro-Quintero, A., Mjungu, D., Georgiev, A. V., Lonsdorf, E. V., Muller, M. N., Pusey, A. E., Peeters, M., Hahn, B. H. & Ochman, H., 22 Jul 2016, In: Science. 353, 6297, p. 380-382

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  6. Published

    The implications of vehicle collisions for the Endangered endemic Zanzibar red colobus Piliocolobus kirkii

    Olgun, H., Mohammed, M. K., Mzee, A. J., Green, M. E. L., Davenport, T. R. B. & Georgiev, A. V., Mar 2022, In: Oryx. 56, 2, p. 268-276 9 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  7. Published

    The impact and implications of vehicle collisions on the endangered and endemic Zanzibar red colobus (Piliocolobus kirkii)

    Olgun, H., Mohammed, M. K., Mzee, A. J., Green, M. E. L., Davenport, T. R. B. & Georgiev, A. V., 17 Jan 2020, (bioRxiv).

    Research output: Working paperPreprint

  8. Published

    Is male rhesus macaque facial coloration under intrasexual selection?

    Petersdorf, M., Dubuc, C., Georgiev, A. V., Winters, S. & Higham, J. P., 13 Nov 2017, In: Behavioral Ecology. 28, 6, p. 1472 1481 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  9. Published

    Experimental evidence that female rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) perceive variation in male facial masculinity

    Rosenfield, K. A., Semple, S., Georgiev, A. V., Maestripieri, D., Higham, J. P. & Dubuc, C., 30 Jan 2019, In: Royal Society Open Science. 6, 1, p. 181415 11 p., 181415.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  10. Published

    CD4 receptor diversity represents an ancient protection mechanism against primate lentiviruses

    Russell, R. M., Bibollet-Ruche, F., Liu, W., Sherrill-Mix, S., Li, Y., Connell, J., Loy, D. E., Trimboli, S., Smith, A. G., Avitto, A. N., Gondim, M. V. P., Plenderleith, L. J., Wetzel, K. S., Collman, R. G., Ayouba, A., Esteban, A., Peeters, M., Kohler, W. J., Miller, R. A., François-Souquiere, S., Switzer, W. M., Hirsch, V. M., Marx, P. A., Piel, A. K., Stewart, F. A., Georgiev, A. V., Sommer, V., Bertolani, P., Hart, J. A., Hart, T. B., Shaw, G. M., Sharp, P. M. & Hahn, B. H., 26 Mar 2021, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 118, 13

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review