People in Skeletal Biology Lab

Research on age and sex-related changes in cortical bone microstructure including exploration of monkeys as a model, analysis of archaeologically recovered bone samples to understand bone maintenance and fragility in populations from diverse times and places including neolithic Europe, Japan, and Roman to early modern England.

Professor Agarwal participates in URAP, and undergraduates in her lab are currently assisting in research on "Age and Sex-related Changes in Cortical Bone Microstructure in the Monkey Model"; "Bone Maintenance and Fragility in a Neolithic Archaeological Population"; and "The Long-term Influence of Growth and Development on the Adult Skeleton: A Biohistorical Study of a Roman Archaeological Population".

Location: 195 Kroeber Hall

Sabrina Agarwal, Associate Professor: Sabrina Agarwal's research focuses on age and sex-related changes in bone quantity and quality. She has examined age-related changes in cortical bone microstructure, trabecular architecture, and mineral density in several British archaeological populations, and is currently examining the long-term effect of parity and lactation on the human and non-human primate maternal skeleton, studying samples from Turkey, Japan, and California.