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Today was the launch of the new Kellner Center for Neurogenomics, Behavior and Society! The Kellner Center is dedicated to studying the connection between our genes, brains, and our behavior – and how that impacts our communities. Alison is the inaugural Director of the Center. Thanks to everyone who helped to make the event a success, […]

They manipulated oxytocin via IP injection in whites and commons and found very different behavioral effects in whites and commons, suggesting that the ecotypes have diverged in their neural substrate. You can read the paper here!

The Bell lab ws featured in the latest issue of the LAS Quadrangle magazine! Watch this video for interviews with Annika Bagazinski, Victoria Abuwa and Alison

Alison was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship and elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences! These accomplishments are testament to the power of supportive colleagues and mentors and to wonderful Bell lab members past and present.

Thanks to Bell lab members for silliness and good times at Alison’s 50th Birthday Party! https://alisonbelllab.web.illinois.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/20240406_192741611.mp4

It was a great success, and was followed by a celebration with white-common/recombination themed cupcakes (courtesy of Victoria Farrar)! 

How do animals balance between competing demands, and how do those mechanism evolve?   If you spend much time watching animals in natural populations you’re bound to notice that animals are rarely doing just one thing at a time. How do they balance between competing demands?  In a new paper in Trends in Ecology and Evolution, Alison

Usan Dan and Tina Barbasch play a food web Jenga with the kids And there were ants!

Cassidy completed a project investigating the parental behavior of blackspotted stickleback in summer 2023 – check out the interview about her experience on YouTube!

Field crews unite! The Alaska Behaviour Axis convened with teams led by Matt Wund, Mike Bell and Ripan Malhi in Kenai, Alaska. There was cake.