Baptiste Sadoughi

Research Interests

  • Aging
  • Stress physiology
  • How social adversity and support get “under the skin”
  • Gut microbiome and Health


As part of the DFP research group “Sociality and Health in Primate”, this project investigates the social and physiological correlates of aging in a population of wild-living Assamese macaques. More info here

Academic career


  • 2019 – present: PhD student.
    Behavioural Ecology Department, University of Göttingen
    Ph.D. program Behaviour and Cognition (BeCog).
    Sociality and Health in Primate II research group.
    PhD subject: Effects of progressing age on energy balance, sociality and health in wild female Assamese macaques (Macaca assamensis)
  • 2017 – 2018: MRes Primate Biology, Behaviour and Conservation.
    University of Roehampton, London, United-Kingdom.
    MRes thesis: A comparison of the Impact of Rank and Rank Stability on Stress Physiology, Inflammation and Allostatic load in semi-free ranging egalitarian Macaca tonkeana and despotic Macaca fascicularis
  • 2013 – 2018: College of Veterinary Medicine, Oniris – Nantes Atlantique.
    Nantes, France. Diploma of Doctor of Veterinary Medicine.
  • 2009 – 2013: Bachelor’s Degree in biology.
    University Pierre and Marie Curie Paris VI, Paris, France. Including a final year exchange program with the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, United-Kingdom



Publications:



Conference contributions:


  • Sadoughi B. (2020) Non-invasive monitoring of metabolic responses to food restriction with immunoreactive urinary triiodothyronine and cortisol in captive macaques. 19th Summer Conference of the Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour, Virtual (Presentation)
  • Sadoughi B. (2019) Effects of progressing age on energy balance sociality and health in wild female Assamese macaques (Macaca assamensis). 40th Thai Wildlife Symposium, Poster
  • Sadoughi B. (2018) The impact of dominance rank on health : Study of hair cortisol and allostasis in tolerant
    Tonkean macaques. 31st congress of the French Speaking Society of Primatology (SFDP).
  • Sadoughi B. (2016) A case of strangulated inguinal hernia in a Macaca fascicularis. 29th congress of the French Speaking Society of Primatology (SFDP).
  • Sadoughi B. (2014) Do Orang-utans like to paint? Preliminary study on stress variations in captivity by salivary cortisol dosage and behavioural observations. 27th congress of the French Speaking Society of Primatology (SFDP).