Chloé Monestier’s paper on personality trait development in female sticklebacks was just published in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B. Early life experience is often thought to be the most important time for personality trait development. But in this paper, Chloé shows that personality traits can continue to change throughout the life […]
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Congratulations to Noelle James for successfully defending her PhD thesis in Neuroscience! Noelle’s thesis is titled, “A multi pronged approach to understanding how genes contribute to social behavior in threespine sticklebacks”.
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Congratulations to Colby Behrens for winning Students’ Choice, Faculty Choice and Best Overall at the annual GEEB symposium. Colby showed that sticklebacks from a population that does not provide care produce larger clutch sizes, smaller eggs, embryos that develop faster and are more bold as fry relative to sticklebacks from a sympatric caring population. Turns
Colby wins THREE awards at GEEB symposium! Read More »
Jenn Hellmann and Sarah Donelan took the lead on writing this new paper with a team of collaborators; the synthesis provides a framework for understanding the significance of transgenerational plasticity in human-altered environments .
Abbas’ paper on the neurogenomic dynamics of fatherhood was published in Nature Communications! For an associated blog post with musings about its implications for “anthropo-arrogance” and sexism click here.
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This article was super fun to write and think about. Check it out here!
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.
Eric Arredondo (undergrad) gives a great talk about his summer research! Read More »
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
Bell lab reunion at Behaviour 2019! Read More »
Miles gave his exit seminar on intraspecific variation in stickleback cognition and then successfully defended his thesis! Congrats Dr. Bensky!
Miles successfully defends his thesis! Read More »
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!
Colby heads to the field Read More »
