Congratulations to Colby on a successful PhD defense!
It was a great success, and was followed by a celebration with white-common/recombination themed cupcakes (courtesy of Victoria Farrar)!
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Two new papers from the lab on the molecular basis and evolution of decision making
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 …
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Genome Day at the Champaign Public Library was a great community outreach event
Usan Dan and Tina Barbasch play a food web Jenga with the kids And there were ants!
Interview with Cassidy Constant, PRECS REU student
Cassidy completed a project investigating the parental behavior of blackspotted stickleback in summer 2023 – check out the interview about her experience on YouTube!
Summer 2023 field season in Alaska
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.
Damaris Miranda and Tara Pavithran present at the Undergraduate Research Symposium!
Damaris was supervised by Kevin Neumann and Tara by Meghan Maciejewski. They did a great job!
A very successful retreat for the Alaska project. We are thrilled to be a part of the “greatest eco-evo experiment ever” and had a great time!
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
Meta-analysis on predator-induced transgenerational plasticity in animals
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 …
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Evidence that behavioral flexibility and boldness go hand in hand when animals disperse into and adapt to new environments
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 …