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Damaris was supervised by Kevin Neumann and Tara by Meghan Maciejewski. They did a great job!

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

Miles Bensky took advantage of a series of replicated populations of sticklebacks in Alaska that vary in time since establishment to show evidence that boldness is important for getting into new habitats, and behavioral flexibility is favored when adapting to them. The paper was just published in the American Naturalist – check it out! This

It was an incredible meeting in a beautiful setting!

Cassie Afseth, Jenn Hellmann and other lab members recently published a paper in Proc B showing that not only do stickleback attend to cues from their father, but fathers also attend to cues from their neighbors, resulting in vertical transmission of horizontally acquired cues of predation risk. The potential for simultaneous vertical and horizontal transmission

Usan presented some of the lab’s latest work on developing viral mediated gene transfer methods for sticklebacks at a workshop on functional tools for non-traditional organisms AND presented a poster about shoaling methods and transgenesis of arginine vasopressin.

Kaith is an undergraduate participating in the PRECs program, which provides opportunities for community college students to get experience with research. We need to figure out how to measure mate preference in whites and commons! Kaith and other members of the lab are working on it.