Allison E. Mann
Department of Anthropology
Assistant Professor, Biological Anthropology
Allison Mann is a biological anthropologist interested in how microbes can help us better understand human evolution, health, history, behavior, and diversity. Her research is focused on the interaction between microbes and their hosts in diverse host species including humans, non-human primates, and insect disease vectors. She studies both living and archaeological populations to better understand how host-associated microbial communities have changed over time.
Courses taught:
ANTH 1100: Introduction to Biological Anthropology
ANTH 4270/5270: Plagues and Peoples: Health and Disease in Human Society
ANTH 4024/5005: Anthropology of the Microbiome
ANTH 5020: Biological Anthropology
ANTH 4024/5005: Anthropology of the Microbiome
ANTH 5020: Biological Anthropology
Selected publications:
AE Mann, C Aumend, S Crull, LM O'Connell, E Osagie, P Akhigbe, O Obuekwe, A Omoigberale,
M Rowe, T Blouin, A Soule, C Kelly, the DOMHaIN Study Team, RA Burne, MO Coker, VP
Richards. HIV infection and exposure is associated with increased taxonomic turnover,
and homogenized spatial differentiation for the supragingival microbiome. Microbiome,
2025
AE Mann, E Magnussen, CR Tillquist. Genetic Evidence Points to Distinct Paternal Settlers
of the Faroes and Iceland. Frontiers in Genetics, 2024
AE Mann, B Chakraborty, LM O'Connell, MN Nascimento, RA Burne, VP Richards. Heterogeneous lineage-specific arginine deiminase expression within dental microbiome species. Microbiology Spectrum, 2024
AE Mann, LM O'Connell, E Osagie, P Akhigbe, O Obuekwe, A Omoigberale, C Kelly, the DOMHaIN Study Team, MO Coker, VP Richards. Impact of HIV on the Oral Microbiome of Children Living in Sub-Saharan Africa, Determined by Using an rpoC Gene Fragment Metataxonomic Approach. Microbiology Spectrum, 2023
AE Mann, JA Fellows Yates, Z Fagernäs, RM Austin, EA Nelson, CA Hofman. Do I have something in my teeth? The trouble with genetic analysesof diet from archaeological dental calculus. Quaternary International, 2023
AE Mann, EA Mitchell, Y Zhang, R Curtis-Robles, S Thapa, SA Hamer, MS Allen. Comparison of the Bacterial Gut Microbiome of North American Triatoma spp. With and Without Trypanosoma cruzi. Frontiers in Microbiology, 2020
AE Mann, F Mazel, MA Lemay, E Morien, V Billy, M Kowalewski, A Di Fiore, A Link, TL Goldberg, S Tecot, AL Baden, A Gomez, ML Sauther, FP Cuozzo, GAO Rice, NJ Dominy, R Stumpf, RJ Lewis, L Swedell, K Amato, L Wegener Parfrey. Biodiversity of protists and nematodes in the wild nonhuman primate gut. The ISME Journal, 2019
AE Mann, S Sabin, K Ziesemer, ÅJ Vågene, H Schroeder, AT Ozga, K Sankaranarayanan, CA Hofman, JA Fellows Yates, DC Salazar-García, B Frohlich, M Aldenderfer, M Hoogland, C Read, GR Milner, AC Stone, CM Lewis Jr., J Krause, C Hofman, KI Box, C Warinner. Differential Preservation of Endogenous Human and Microbial DNA in Dental Calculus and Dentin. Scientific Reports, 2018
AE Mann, B Chakraborty, LM O'Connell, MN Nascimento, RA Burne, VP Richards. Heterogeneous lineage-specific arginine deiminase expression within dental microbiome species. Microbiology Spectrum, 2024
AE Mann, LM O'Connell, E Osagie, P Akhigbe, O Obuekwe, A Omoigberale, C Kelly, the DOMHaIN Study Team, MO Coker, VP Richards. Impact of HIV on the Oral Microbiome of Children Living in Sub-Saharan Africa, Determined by Using an rpoC Gene Fragment Metataxonomic Approach. Microbiology Spectrum, 2023
AE Mann, JA Fellows Yates, Z Fagernäs, RM Austin, EA Nelson, CA Hofman. Do I have something in my teeth? The trouble with genetic analysesof diet from archaeological dental calculus. Quaternary International, 2023
AE Mann, EA Mitchell, Y Zhang, R Curtis-Robles, S Thapa, SA Hamer, MS Allen. Comparison of the Bacterial Gut Microbiome of North American Triatoma spp. With and Without Trypanosoma cruzi. Frontiers in Microbiology, 2020
AE Mann, F Mazel, MA Lemay, E Morien, V Billy, M Kowalewski, A Di Fiore, A Link, TL Goldberg, S Tecot, AL Baden, A Gomez, ML Sauther, FP Cuozzo, GAO Rice, NJ Dominy, R Stumpf, RJ Lewis, L Swedell, K Amato, L Wegener Parfrey. Biodiversity of protists and nematodes in the wild nonhuman primate gut. The ISME Journal, 2019
AE Mann, S Sabin, K Ziesemer, ÅJ Vågene, H Schroeder, AT Ozga, K Sankaranarayanan, CA Hofman, JA Fellows Yates, DC Salazar-García, B Frohlich, M Aldenderfer, M Hoogland, C Read, GR Milner, AC Stone, CM Lewis Jr., J Krause, C Hofman, KI Box, C Warinner. Differential Preservation of Endogenous Human and Microbial DNA in Dental Calculus and Dentin. Scientific Reports, 2018
Research Interests:
Molecular anthropology, host-associated microbial ecology, bioinformatics, ancient DNA, population genetics
Molecular anthropology, host-associated microbial ecology, bioinformatics, ancient DNA, population genetics
