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.
Two accolades in April! Read More »
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)!
Congratulations to Colby on a successful PhD defense! Read More »
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
Two new papers from the lab on the molecular basis and evolution of decision making Read More »
Usan Dan and Tina Barbasch play a food web Jenga with the kids And there were ants!
Genome Day at the Champaign Public Library was a great community outreach event Read More »
Cassidy completed a project investigating the parental behavior of blackspotted stickleback in summer 2023 – check out the interview about her experience on YouTube!
Interview with Cassidy Constant, PRECS REU student Read More »
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.
Summer 2023 field season in Alaska Read More »
Damaris was supervised by Kevin Neumann and Tara by Meghan Maciejewski. They did a great job!
Damaris Miranda and Tara Pavithran present at the Undergraduate Research Symposium! Read More »
The behaviour axis, including (from left) Alexis Heckley, Chad Brock, Rionach McCarthy, Alison Bell, Tina Barbasch, Kiyoko Gotanda, Kevin Neumann, Allison Roth, Eric Neumann and Brendan Byrd Kevin Neumann presenting findings from summer 2022 Tina Barbasch presenting at the retreat Eric Arredondo shows results from summer 2022 and plans for 2023
Check out our recent paper in Oecologia on predator-induced TGP! This project was a massive collaborative effect by a great team of international colleagues, originally brought together at a Gordon Conference on predator-prey interactions. We marshaled together an extensive dataset and applied rigorous methods and found very strong evidence for predator-induced TGP. However, we ultimately
Meta-analysis on predator-induced transgenerational plasticity in animals Read More »