LAB NEWS
Congratulations to Colby on a successful PhD defense!
It was a great success, and was followed by a celebration with white-common/recombination themed cupcakes…
Congratulations to Colby on a successful PhD defense!
It was a great success, and was followed by a celebration with white-common/recombination themed cupcakes…
Two new papers from the lab on the molecular basis and evolution of decision making
How do animals balance between competing demands, and how do those mechanism evolve? If…
Genome Day at the Champaign Public Library was a great community outreach event
Usan Dan and Tina Barbasch play a food web Jenga with the kids And there…
Interview with Cassidy Constant, PRECS REU student
Cassidy completed a project investigating the parental behavior of blackspotted stickleback in summer 2023 –…
Summer 2023 field season in Alaska
Field crews unite! The Alaska Behaviour Axis convened with teams led by Matt Wund, Mike…
Damaris Miranda and Tara Pavithran present at the Undergraduate Research Symposium!
Damaris was supervised by Kevin Neumann and Tara by Meghan Maciejewski. They did a great…
A very successful retreat for the Alaska project. We are thrilled to be a part of the “greatest eco-evo experiment ever” and had a great time!
The behaviour axis, including (from left) Alexis Heckley, Chad Brock, Rionach McCarthy, Alison Bell, Tina…
Meta-analysis on predator-induced transgenerational plasticity in animals
Check out our recent paper in Oecologia on predator-induced TGP! This project was a massive…
Meg Tucker presents at SACNAS
Meg presenting a poster at the SACNAS conference in Puerto Rico
Evidence that behavioral flexibility and boldness go hand in hand when animals disperse into and adapt to new environments
Miles Bensky took advantage of a series of replicated populations of sticklebacks in Alaska that…
Alison presents a plenary at the stickleback conference in Iceland
It was an incredible meeting in a beautiful setting! Alison delivers a talk to the…
New paper on vertical transmission of horizontally acquired cues
Cassie Afseth, Jenn Hellmann and other lab members recently published a paper in Proc B…