Exploring the world of behavior

Welcome to the Bell Lab

Credit: Brian Stauffer

Research in the Bell lab is focused on understanding why individual animals behave differently from each other. Even an individual fish, for example, behaves differently from other fish, through time and across situations. We study the proximate and ultimate causes of individual variation in threespined stickleback.

Current Research

TRANSGENERATIONAL PLASTICITY

PATERNAL CARE

BEHAVIORAL GENOMICS

INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES

Latest Posts

- Bell lab reunion at Behaviour 2019!
  July 29, 2019Lab EventThis year was the joint meeting of the 56th Annual Conference of the Animal Behavior Society and the 36th International Ethological Conference. It was in Chicago, IL so there was great representation from the Bell lab. We even got to have a nice Bell lab reunion dinner which included some of the earliest members of the lab. Everyone in the lab did great with their talks and posters! Bell lab showing off their spines!...
- Miles successfully defends his thesis!
  June 28, 2019Lab EventMiles gave his exit seminar on intraspecific variation in stickleback cognition and then successfully defended his thesis! Congrats Dr. Bensky!...