Lab Event

The Bell lab was well-represented at the 23rd Annual GEEB Symposium. Colby gave a great talk about divergence in courtship behavior between whites and commons. Kevin showed that behavioral differences between whites and commons emerge early in life: juvenile whites are more active and bold and appear to shoal less than commons. And Kevin took […]

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

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 gave his exit seminar on intraspecific variation in stickleback cognition and then successfully defended his thesis! Congrats Dr. Bensky!

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 presented a poster on the new viral-mediated transgenesis method she is developing and won a prize at the IGB Fellows Symposium!