Conference oral presentations

2023

1. Balasubramaniam, K. N., Muller-Klein, N., Schmid, D., Risely, A., Wilson, H., Clutton-Brock, T. H., Manser, M., & Sommer, S. (2023). Deterministic social factors that influence bacterial co-occurrence and community ecology among meerkats (Suricatta suricata). 30th Annual Meerkat & Mongoose Meetings, Zurich, Switzerland.

2.  McCowan, B. J., Balasubramaniam, K. N., Vandeleest, J., Beisner, B. A., Kaburu, S. S. K., Marty., P. R., Chakraborty, B., Aiempichitkijkarn, N., Hubbard, J., Atwill, E., & McCowan, B. (August 2023). NPRC-based research on captive macaques informs primate conservation efforts using a combined social network and human-monkey coupled systems’ approach. International Primatology Society (IPS) meetings, Kuching, Malaysia.

3. Balasubramaniam, K. N., De Vittoris, S., Bliss-Moreau, B., Kaburu, S. S. K., Marty, P. R., Beisner, B. A., & McCowan, B. (August 2023). Using a Coupled Natural and Human Systems framework to address evidence-gaps in our understanding of the behavioural aspects of human-nonhuman primate interfaces. International Primatology Society (IPS) meetings, Kuching, Malaysia.

4. Balasubramaniam, K. N., Aiempichitkijkarn, N., Kaburu, S. S. K., Marty, P. R., Beisner, B. A., Bliss-Moreau, E., Atwill, E., & McCowan, B. (March 2023). Anthropogenic factors and social interactions affect infectious disease outbreaks among urban wildlife populations. People, Animals & Waste Systems Web Start (PAWS-Web) Conference, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.

2022

5. Balasubramaniam, K. N., Aiempichitkijkarn, N., Kaburu, S. S. K., Marty, P. R., Beisner, B. A., Bliss- Moreau, E.,  Atwill, E. A., & McCowan, B. J. (Jul 2022). Anthropogenic factors and social interactions affect zoonotic outbreak risk among (peri)urban wildlife populations. International Society for Behavioural Ecology (ISBE) Congress, Stockholm, Sweden.

2021

6. Balasubramaniam, K. N., Aiempichitkijkarn, N., Kaburu, S. S. K., Marty, P. R., Beisner, B. A., Arlet, M., Bliss- Moreau, E., Atwill, E. A., & McCowan, B. J. (Dec 2021). A comparative network approach to understand the socio-ecology of zoonotic outbreaks at human-primate interfaces. Symposium on Anthropozoonotic Disease risk to Primates in Fragmenting.ed Landscapes, International Congress for Conservation Biology (ICCB) Virtual Meetings.

7. Balasubramaniam, K. N., Kaburu, S. S. K., Marty, P. R., Beisner, B. A., Arlet, M., Bliss- Moreau, E., & McCowan, B. J. (Aug 2021). Implementing network approaches to understand the socio-ecology of human-wildlife interactions. Symposium on Conflict to Coexistence, Animal Behavior Society (ABS) Virtual Meetings.

8. Chakraborty, B., Kaburu, S. S. K., Marty, P. R., Balasubramaniam, K. N., Beisner, B. A., Mohan, L., Rattan, S. K., & McCowan, B. J. (Aug 2021). What can multi-layer networks tell us about patterns of interactions in macaques? Animal Behavior Society (ABS) Virtual Meetings.

9. Hubbard, J., Rupert, N., Balasubramaniam, K. N., Beisner, B. A., Marty, P., Kaburu, S. S. K., & McCowan, B. (Aug 2021). Mitigating macaque infant risk in the urban environment. Animal Behavior Society (ABS) Virtual Meetings.

10. Balasubramaniam, K. N., Aiempichitkijkarn, N., Kaburu, S. S. K., Marty, P. R., Beisner, B. A., Arlet, M., Bliss- Moreau, E., Atwill, E. A., & McCowan, B. J. (Jul 2021). Using comparative network approaches and epidemiological modeling to assess zoonotic transmission at human-primate interfaces. International Society for Evolution Medicine & Public Health (ISEMPH) Virtual Meetings.

2020

11. Balasubramaniam, K. N., Marty, P. R., Samartino, S., Sobrino, A., Gill, T., Ismail, M., Saha, R., Beisner, B. A., Kaburu, S. S. K., Arlet, M., Bliss- Moreau, E., & McCowan, B. J. (Jul 2020). Impact of individual behavior on human-wildlife interactions: a cross-species comparative approach. Animal Behavior Society (ABS) Virtual Meetings.

12. Balasubramaniam, K. N., Malaivijitnond, S., Kemthong, T., Meesawat, S., Hamada, Y., Jeamsripong, S., Srisamran, J., Kuldee, M., Thaotumpitak, V., McCowan, B., & Atwill, E. (Aug 2020). Prevalence of enterobacteriaceae among wild longtailed macaques in Thailand. International Primatological Society (IPS), Quito, Ecuador*.

13. Balasubramaniam, K. N., Marty, P. R., Arlet, M., Beisner, B. A., Kaburu, S. S. K., Bliss- Moreau, E., Kodandaramaiah, U., & McCowan, B. J. (Aug 2020). The impact of anthropogenic factors on social grooming among wild bonnet macaques. International Primatological Society (IPS), Quito, Ecuador*.

14. Balasubramaniam, K. N., Marty, P. R., Arlet, M., Beisner, B. A., Kaburu, S. S. K., Bliss- Moreau, E., Kodandaramaiah, U., & McCowan, B. J. (Apr 2020). The impact of anthropogenic factors on social grooming among wild bonnet macaques. American Association of Physical Anthropologists (AAPA), Los Angeles CA, USA.

15. Hubbard, J., Rupert, N., Balasubramaniam, K. N., Beisner, B. A., Marty, P., Kaburu, S. S. K., & McCowan, B. (Apr 2020). Effect of energetic need on human-macaque interactions and access to anthropogenic food in the urban environment. American Association of Physical Anthropologists (AAPA), Los Angeles CA, USA.

16. Chakraborty, B., Kaburu, S. S. K., Marty, P. R., Balasubramaniam, K. N., Beisner, B. A., Mohan, L., Rattan, S. K., & McCowan, B. J. (Apr 2020). Individual predictors of participation in intergroup encounters among urban-dwelling rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta). American Association of Physical Anthropologists (AAPA), Los Angeles CA, USA.

17. Vandeleest, J. J., Beisner, B. A., Hannibal, D. L., Fujii, K., Balasubramaniam, K. N., Hsieh, F., & McCowan, B. (Sep 2020). Predictors of trauma differ for high and low ranked compared to middle ranked rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta). American Society for Primatologists (ASP), Denver CO, USA.

18. Dunayer, E. S., Balasubramaniam, K. N., & Berman, C. M. (Sep 2020). Short-term grooming time-matching: do methodological distinctions matter? American Society for Primatologists (ASP), Denver CO, USA.

2019

19. Marty, P. R. Balasubramaniam, K. N., Kaburu, S. S. K., Beisner, B. A., Bliss-Moreau, E., Arlet, M. E., & McCowan, B. (Aug 2019). Individuals in urban dwelling primates face unequal costs and benefits associated with living in an anthropogenic environment. Joint meeting between the European Federation of Primatology and the Primatological Society of Great Britain, Oxford, UK.

20. Kaburu, S. S. K., Beisner, B., Balasubramanian, K. N., Marty P. R., Bliss-Moreau, E., Mohan, L., Rattan, S. K.., Arlet, M. E.., Atwill, E. R., & McCowan, B. (Aug 2019). Interactions with humans reduce resting and grooming time in commensal rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta). Joint meeting between the European Federation of Primatology and the Primatological Society of Great Britain, Oxford, UK.

21. Chakraborty, B., Kaburu, S. S. K., Marty, P. R., Balasubramaniam, K. N., Beisner, B., Mohan, L., & McCowan, B (July 2019). Individual predictors of participation in inter-group encounters among urban-dwelling rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta). Joint Meeting of the Animal Behaviour Society and the International Ethological Society, Chicago IL, USA.

22. Aiempichitkijkarn N., Kaburu, S. S. K., Beisner, B., Marty, P. R., Balasubramaniam, K. N., Bliss-Moreau, E., & McCowan, B. (June 2019). Stealing in exchange for food: spatial position in the group predicts stealing behavior among rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) in Shimla, northern India. International Urban Wildlife Conference, Portland OR, USA.

2018

23. Balasubramaniam, K. N., Beisner, B. A., Bliss-Moreau, E., Kaburu, S., Marty, P., Arlet, M., & McCowan, B. J. (Aug 2018). Assessing human-primate conflict as dynamic coupled natural and human systems. International Primatological Society Meetings, Nairobi, Kenya.

24. Balasubramaniam, K. N., Beisner, B., Guan, J., Hubbard, J., Vandeleest, J., Fushing, H., Atwill, R., & McCowan B. (Aug 2018). Social networks mediate the transmission of commensal gut E. coli among captive rhesus macaques. Animal Behaviour Society, Milwaukee, USA.

25. Kaburu, S. S. K., Bliss-Moreau, E., Srivastava, S., Beisner, B., Marty, P. R., Balasubramaniam, K. N., & McCowan, B. (Aug 2018) Investigation of the factors driving the conflict between people and rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) in Shimla, northern India. International Primatological Society Meetings, Nairobi, Kenya.

26. Marty, P. R., Beisner, B., Kaburu, S. S. K., Balasubramaniam, K. N., Bliss-Moreau,E., McCowan, B. (Aug 2018). Time constraints and stress imposed by human presence alter social behavior in urban long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. International Primatological Society Meetings, Nairobi, Kenya.

27. Aiempichitkijkarn, N., Kaburu, S. S. K., Beisner, B., Marty, P. R., Balasubramaniam, K. N., Bliss-Moreau, E. & McCowan, B. (Aug 2018). Position in the group predicts robbing and bartering among rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) in Shimla, northern India. International Primatological Society Meetings, Nairobi, Kenya.

28. Aiempichitkijkarn, N., Kaburu, S. S. K., Beisner, B., Marty, P. R., Balasubramaniam, K. N., Bliss-Moreau, E. & McCowan, B. (Feb 2018). Group position predicts robbing and bartering behavior among rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) in Shimla, northern India. Satellite International Symposium on Asian Primates, Kathmandu, Nepal.

29. Chakraborty, B., Kaburu, S. S. K., Beisner, B., Marty, P. R., Balasubramaniam, K. N., Bliss-Moreau, E., Mohan, L. & McCowan, B. (Feb 2018). Effect of human-macaque interactions on grooming behavior of urban rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta) in the city of Shimla, northern India. Satellite International Symposium on Asian Primates, Kathmandu, Nepal.

30. Srivastava, S., Bliss-Moreau, E., Kaburu, S. S. K., Kshatriya, G. K., Beisner, B., Marty,P. R., Balasubramaniam, K. N. & McCowan, B. (Feb 2018). Human perceptions and attitudes towards human-macaque conflict in Shimla, North India. Satellite International Symposium on Asian Primates, Kathmandu, Nepal.

2017

31. Balasubramaniam, K. N., Beisner, B., Vandeleest, J., Atwill, R., & McCowan B. (Aug 2017). Social buffering and contact transmission: network connections have beneficial and detrimental effects on captive groups of rhesus macaques. American Society of Primatologists, Washington DC, USA.

32. Kaburu, S. S. K., Beisner, B., Marty, P. R., Balasubramaniam, K. N., Bliss-Moreau, E.& McCowan B. (Aug 2017). Investigation of grooming interactions among urban- dwelling rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) in Shimla (northern India). American Society of Primatologists, Washington DC, USA.

33. Marty, P. R., Beisner, B., Kaburu, S. S. K., Balasubramaniam, K. N., Bliss-Moreau, E.& McCowan B. (Aug 2017). Determinants of human-nonhuman primate conflicts in longtailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis) in Malaysia. American Society of Primatologists, Washington DC, USA,

34. Bliss-Moreau, E., Beisner, B., Balasubramaniam, K. N., Kaburu, S. S. K., Marty, P. R., Kaburu, S. S. K., & McCowan B. (Aug 2017). The Perception of macaques’ minds is related to attitudes about macaques at interfaces. American Society of Primatologists, Washington DC, USA.

35. Balasubramaniam, K. N. (July 2017). The influence of ancestral, socioecological, and anthropogenic factors on macaque social network structure and disease risk. International Symposium on Nonhuman Primates: Insights into Human Behavior and Society, Huangshan, Anhui, China.

36. Beisner, B. A., Balasubramaniam, K. N., Bliss-Moreau, E., Kaburu, S. S. K., Marty, P. R., & McCowan, B. J. (Mar 2017). Drivers and mechanisms underlying human-macaque interactions across a sociocultural gradient. American Association of Geographers, Boston, MA, USA.

37. Balasubramaniam, K. N., Beisner, B. A., Bliss-Moreau, E. & McCowan, B.  J. (Jan 2017). Assessing human-Macaque interfaces as dynamic coupled natural and human systems. Asian Conference for Water and Land Management for Food and Security, Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India.

2016

38. Balasubramaniam, K. N., Beisner, B. A., & McCowan, B. J. (Aug 2016). Factors Influencing macaque social networks: phylogenetic constraints, current conditions, and geographic factors. American Society of Primatologists & International Primatological Society, Chicago, IL, USA.

39. Hannibal, D., Barnard, A., Beisner, B. A., Balasubramaniam, K. N., & McCowan, B. J. (Aug 2016). How much does allogrooming Matter in the near-term and long-term for reducing severe aggression in captive rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta)? American Society of Primatologists & International Primatological Society, Chicago, IL, USA.

2014

40. Balasubramaniam, K. N., Dunayer, E. S., Gilhooly, L. J., Rosenfield, K. A. & Berman, C. M. (Aug 2014). Group Size, contest competition, and social structure in Cayo Santiago rhesus macaques. International Primatological Society, Hanoi, Vietnam.

2012

41. Balasubramaniam, K. N., Dittmar, K., & Berman, C. M. (June 2012). Hierarchical steepness and phylogenetic Models: phylogenetic signals in Macaca. Animal Behavior Society & Human Behavior and Evolution Society. Albuquerque,NM, USA.

2011

42. Balasubramaniam, K. N., Berman, C. M., & Ogawa, H. (July 2011). Biological markets principles and grooming exchange patterns in Macaca thibetana. International Ethological Conference & Animal Behaviour Society, Bloomington, IN, USA.

2010

43. Saha, P., Balasubramaniam, K. N., Kalyani, J. N., Supriya, K., Anantha Padmanabhan, R. & Gadagkar, R. (Aug 2010). Struggle for royalty: queens of Ropalidia marginata employ both pheromones and aggression. International Union for the Study of Social Insects. Copenhagen, Denmark.

Conference poster presentations

2019

1. Chakraborty, B., Kaburu, S. S. K., Marty, P. R., Balasubramaniam, K. N., Beisner, B., Mohan, L., & McCowan, B (May 2019). Individual predictors of participation in inter-group encounters among urban-dwelling rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta). California Workshop on Evolutionary Social Science (C-Wess), San Luis Obispo CA, USA.

2.  Majoe, M., Arlet, M. A., Ismail, M., Saha, R., Dongre, P., van Berkel, M., Sobrino, A., Balasubramaniam, K. N., Beisner, B., Kaburu, S., Marty, P., Bliss-Moreau, E., Kodandaramaiah, U., & McCowan, B. (May 2019). Investigating patterns of human-bonnet macaque interactions in an anthropogenic landscape. 14th Meeting in Ecology and Behavior, Toulouse, France.

3. Dunayer, E. S., Tyrell, M., Balasubramaniam, K. N., & Berman, C. M. (Feb 2019). Time matching between grooming partners: Do methodological distinctions between shorts vs. long term reciprocation matter? 16th Conference of the Gesellschaft für Primatologie, Gottingen, Germany.Ismail, M., Arlet, M. A., Majoe, M., Saha, R., Dongre, P., van Berkel, M., Sobrino, A., Balasubramaniam, K. N., Beisner, B., Kaburu, S., Marty, P., Bliss-Moreau, E., Kodandaramaiah, U., & McCowan, B. (Feb 2018). Living on the edge: feeding ecology of female bonnet macaques in semi-urban landscapes. Satellite International Symposium on Asian Primates, Kathmandu, Nepal.

2018

4. Majoe, M., Arlet, M. A., Ismail, M., Saha, R., Dongre, P., van Berkel, M., Sobrino, A., Balasubramaniam, K. N., Beisner, B., Kaburu, S., Marty, P., Bliss-Moreau, E., Kodandaramaiah, U., & McCowan, B. (Feb 2018). Two to tango: what factors dictate the bonnet macaque’s interaction with humans? Satellite International Symposium on Asian Primates, Kathmandu, Nepal.

2017

5. Balasubramaniam, K. N., Beisner, B., Guan, J., Vandeleest, J., Fushing, H., Atwill, R., & McCowan, B. J. (Aug 2017). Social network community structure is associated with the sharing of commensal E. coli among captive rhesus macaques. American Society of Primatologists, Washington DC, USA.

2015

6. Balasubramaniam, K. N., Beisner, B. A., Fushing, H., McCowan, B. J. & Berman, C. M. (June 2015). Supply-and-demand or social investment? Contest competition and grooming exchange among Cayo Santiago rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta). American Society of Primatologists. Bend, OR, USA.

2013

7. Balasubramaniam, K. N., Dittmar, K., & Berman, C. M. (June 2013). Hierarchical steepness, counter- aggression, and macaque social style scale. American Society of Primatologists. San Juan, Puerto Rico.

2009

8. Balasubramaniam, K. N., Berman, C. M., & Ogawa, H. (Oct 2009). Dominance style and biological markets in Macaca thibetana. Cooperation: Self Interest and Mutual Interest. Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. 

Invited seminars - external

2023, Oct: Biological Anthropology Seminar Series, University of Cambridge

2023, Jan: Evolutionary Anthropology Seminar Series, University College London

2022, Nov: Centre for Research in Animal Behaviour (CRAB) Seminar Series, University of Exeter

2022, July: Institute of Evolutionary Ecology & Conservation Genomics, Ulm University

2022, Apr: Behavioural Ecology Seminar Series, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge

2021, Nov: Institute of Human Biology & Evolution, Adam Mickiewicz University

2021, Nov: Symposium on Weaving the MacaqueNet, University of Exeter

2021, July: Symposium on Conflict to Coexistence, Animal Behavior Society Virtual Meetings.

2021, Feb: Ecology and Social Behavior Seminar Series, Kyoto University

2020, May: Association of Indian Primatologists. Webminar series ‘Let’s Talk Primates’.

2019, Dec: Program in Evolution Ecology and Behavior, University at Buffalo SUNY

2019, Feb: Department of Anthropology, Central Washington University

2017, Oct: National Center for Biological Sciences, India

2017, Oct: Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, India

2017, July: International Symposium on Nonhuman Primates: Huangshan, China

2017, Jan: Asian Conference for Water and Land Management for Food and Security

2016, Jun: Department of Biological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research

2015, Sep: Department of Biology, Universiti Putra Malaysia

Invited seminars - internal

2022, Oct: Animal and Environmental Biology Seminar Series, Anglia Ruskin University

2020, Jan: Animal Behavior Graduate Group (ABGG) Seminar, University of California at Davis

2017, Nov:  Biopsychology Brown Bag, University of California at Davis