Amy Boddy's guest appearances

Amy Boddy

Zombified: Your Source for Fresh Brains

That Anthro Podcast

David Barrett

Robert Frank

Sarah Hill

Jennifer Miller

Jordan Thomas

John Johnson

David Haig

Clive Wynne

David Quammen

Barbara Natterson-Horowitz

Doug Kenrick

Diana Fleischman

David Lawson

Neil Smith

Mary Ziegler

OwlTail

Welcome to the podcast Associate Professor of Anthropology at UC Santa Barbara, Dr. Amy Boddy. Dr. Boddy specializes in evolutionary approaches to human health and researches topics like comparative oncology, maternal fetal transfer and conflict, and much more. Dr. Boddy discusses her academic journey as a first generation student, starting with community college in Michigan and then onto Wayne State where she received her BA and PhD. Dr. Boddy has always been drawn to human health, biology and evolution, but it wasn't until her senior year of college she discovered how she could use an anthropological lens to study the questions she wanted to. We then move into her experience as a post-doc and moving internationally with a young child.  Prior to her appointment at UCSB, she worked at the Comparative Oncology Center at Arizona State University where she was a professor. While she still works with this team today, in 2017 she accepted a professor position at UCSB. Currently she teaches classes like Evolutionary Medicine, Human Reproductive Ecology, Genetics, and runs a great lab on campus. We talk the transition from ASU to UCSB, quarter versus semester system from student and professorial point of view, as well as her takeaways from online learning.  Currently, she and a team are investigating microchimerism, or the transfer of cells between mother and baby during pregnancy. She has obtained blood samples from a hospital in Santa Barbara to further research these fascinating cells and their role in immune response.  Google scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=jnNIBc4AAAAJ&amp;hl=en Twitter: @amy_boddy http://www.boddylab.ca/ Follow @thatanthropodcast on Instagram, and @ThatAnthroPod on Twitter for more behind the scenes content. Brought to you in collaboration with the American Anthropological Association check out their podcast library here https://www.americananthro.org/StayInformed/Content.aspx?ItemNumber=1629--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/gabby-campbell1/support

Welcome to the podcast Associate Professor of Anthropology at UC Santa Barbara, Dr. Amy Boddy. Dr. Boddy specializes in evolutionary approaches to human health and researches topics like comparative oncology, maternal fetal transfer and conflict, and much more. Dr. Boddy discusses her academic journey as a first generation student, starting with community college in Michigan and then onto Wayne State where she received her BA and PhD. Dr. Boddy has always been drawn to human health, biology and evolution, but it wasn't until her senior year of college she discovered how she could use an anthropological lens to study the questions she wanted to. We then move into her experience as a post-doc and moving internationally with a young child.  Prior to her appointment at UCSB, she worked at the Comparative Oncology Center at Arizona State University where she was a professor. While she still works with this team today, in 2017 she accepted a professor position at UCSB. Currently she teaches classes like Evolutionary Medicine, Human Reproductive Ecology, Genetics, and runs a great lab on campus. We talk the transition from ASU to UCSB, quarter versus semester system from student and professorial point of view, as well as her takeaways from online learning.  Currently, she and a team are investigating microchimerism, or the transfer of cells between mother and baby during pregnancy. She has obtained blood samples from a hospital in Santa Barbara to further research these fascinating cells and their role in immune response.  Google scholar: <a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=jnNIBc4AAAAJ&amp;hl=en" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=jnNIBc4AAAAJ&amp;hl=en</a> Twitter: @amy_boddy <a href="http://www.boddylab.ca/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.boddylab.ca/</a> Follow @thatanthropodcast on Instagram, and @ThatAnthroPod on Twitter for more behind the scenes content. Brought to you in collaboration with the American Anthropological Association check out their podcast library here <a href="https://www.americananthro.org/StayInformed/Content.aspx?ItemNumber=1629" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.americananthro.org/StayInformed/Content.aspx?ItemNumber=1629</a>--- Support this podcast: <a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/gabby-campbell1/support" rel="payment nofollow" target="_blank">https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/gabby-campbell1/support</a>

Evolutionary Approaches to Human Health with Dr. Amy Boddy

While you were in the womb, cells from your mom took up residence inside you. And cells from your baby body transferred to your mom as well, settling down in her tissues and organs. In this episode we talk with evolutionary biologist Amy Boddy about this phenomenon - called maternal-fetal microchimerism -  and what it means for our understanding of who we are. If you've had a baby (or a few babies), cells from those babies may be inside your body and brain right now, proliferating and interacting with the rest of you. What are they doing and why? Listen and find out!

While you were in the womb, cells from your mom took up residence inside you. And cells from your baby body transferred to your mom as well, settling down in her tissues and organs. In this episode we talk with evolutionary biologist Amy Boddy about this phenomenon - called maternal-fetal microchimerism - and what it means for our understanding of who we are. If you've had a baby (or a few babies), cells from those babies may be inside your body and brain right now, proliferating and interacting with the rest of you. What are they doing and why? Listen and find out!

Microchimeric mombie: Amy Boddy