New review on the mechanisms and multigenerational consequences of transgenerational plasticity now available online!
This article was super fun to write and think about. Check it out here!
Eric Arredondo (undergrad) gives a great talk about his summer research!
Eric participated in a summer research program and studied the fascinating white sticklebacks with Colby Behrens. At the end of the summer he gave a great talk about the results of their work to the other students participating in the program.
Bell lab reunion at Behaviour 2019!
This 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 …
Miles successfully defends his thesis!
Miles gave his exit seminar on intraspecific variation in stickleback cognition and then successfully defended his thesis! Congrats Dr. Bensky!
Colby heads to the field
Aided by some faithful assistants, Colby collected “white” and “common” sticklebacks in Nova Scotia to bring to the lab to study. So called “white” sticklebacks do not provide care for their offspring, while “commons” do!
Noelle wins a prize for Best Poster
Noelle presented a poster on the new viral-mediated transgenesis method she is developing and won a prize at the IGB Fellows Symposium!