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We investigate how individuals assess their environments and respond to varying conditions. We primarily study plasticity and transgenerational plasticity of freshwater pond snails in response to their predators.
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SEEKING two new PhD and MS students to do research in the behavioral ecology of risk responses. See the details here
October 2023 - Two new graduate students (Nguvan Agaigbe and Nik Wright) have joined the lab to begin projects on Northern Bobwhite Quail, including building a Integrated Population model for their research and for the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation.
July 2023 - Olivia received a Graduate Research Fellowship from NSF. She will using it here and in some lucky PhD lab in the future.
January 2023 - Big publication month. A group lab project led by Scott Goeppner on the interactions of maternal and paternal effects was published in Oecologia. Olivia had a paper from her undergraduate work Michael Sheriff published in the Journal of Animal Ecology. And collaborative work I've done with Judy Stamps on sensitivity perioids was published in The Quarterly Review of Biology
October 2022 - Olivia Aguiar has joined the lab as a graduate student. Scott Goeppner will soon be leaving as a post-doc in Burt Kotler's lab.
April 2022 - Scott Goeppner successfully defended his PhD dissertation, and Jamie Najar successfully defended her MS thesis. Both did great jobs.
March 2022 - Dani Kirsch published a review on snails as a system to study chemical cues for intra- and inter-species communication link to paper
October 2021 - Lynne Beaty, Medhavi Ambardar, Jennifer Grindstaff and I published in Hormones and Behavior our first paper on optimal hormone regulation. Read it here.
August 2021 - Dani Kirsch was awarded an OSU Foundation Distinguished Graduate Fellowship
April 2021 - Dani Kirsch passed her comprehensive exams and won the Wilhm Outstanding Teaching Assistant award for PhD students
August 2020 - Jamie Najar joined the lab as a new Masters student
June 2020 - Katerina Ramos defended her Masters thesis, Informational environments and anti-predator behavior in Physa acuta. Great job Kat.
April 2020 - Katerina Ramos won the Wilhm Outstanding Teaching Assistant award. Well done Kat.
April 2020 - Scott Goeppner won the Robberson Summer Dissertation Fellowship. Great job Scott.
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