Animal Communication Lab

Current Lab Members

Postdocs

I am a behavioral endocrinologist and neuroethologist interested in how physiology and behavior covary across species, sexes, and individuals. I joined the lab in 2024. I finished my PhD at Indiana University, where I studied the neuroendocrine mechanisms regulating variation in social behavior and signaling across weakly electric knifefishes. I am now investigating the hormonal modulation of reproduction and calling in treefrogs.

Graduate Students

Lata Kalra, Ph.D. Student

I joined the lab in 2018. I completed a combined BS/MS program at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research - Mohali. My MS thesis was under the direction of Dr. Manjari Jain, and involved the study of aggressive behavior in male crickets. I am currently investigating the perceptual basis of auditory grouping in green treefrogs.

Katie Krueger, Ph.D. Student

I am a biologist and science educator with over a decade of experience teaching sixth - twelfth grade students. I have worked in international, public, and independent schools where I have written and implemented flexible curricula that allowed students to ask and pursue their own scientific questions. I am broadly interested in researching pre- and post-copulatory mate choice.

Satyabhama Devi Weihermann de Oliveira, Ph.D. Student

I joined the lab in 2023. I completed my bachelor's degree in Biological Sciences in 2020 and my master's degree in Ecology in 2022, both in Brazil (where I'm from). I have been working with amphibians and reptiles since 2015. Specifically in my master's thesis, I worked on how elevational gradients can change acoustic communication in frogs. Now, I'm broadly interested in researching male-male interactions and mate choice, and also how different factors can impact this reproductive dynamic.

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