Past Research

Past Group Members

Undergraduate Students

nameYearCurrently
Vanessa Ezenwa1995 Assistant Professor, University of Montana
Emily DuVal 1995 Assistant Professor, Florida State University
Nicole Gerardo 1995 Assistant Professor, Emory University
Noah Rosenberg 1995 Associate Professor, University of Michigan
Thomas Platt 1998 Graduate Student, Indiana University
Massimiliano Stagi 1998 Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale
JJ Emerson 1999 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Shalene Jha 2002 Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Berkeley
Amy Conley 2003 Graduate Student, Washington University in St. Louis
Emily Jones 2003 Postdoctoral Associate, Washington State University
Michelle Afkhami 2005 Graduate Student, UC Davis

PhD Students

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Colin R. Hughes Group nesting and reproductive conflict in primitively eusocial wasps. Current Position: Associate Professor, Florida Atlantic University
Carlos R. Solís Plasticity of physiological caste in a social insect. Current Position: Manager, Educational Technologies, Rice University
Keith F. Goodnight Computer simulations of kin selection. Current Position: Novelist
Jeanne A. Zeh Polyandry as a hedge against genetic incompatibility. Current Position: Assistant Professor, University of Nevada, Reno
Debbie Moralez DeLoach Breeding success, mating success, and mating strategies of the northern mockingbird, Mimus polyglottos
Francesca Zacchi Genetic structure of Polistes dominulus foundress associations.
Michael Henshaw Collective worker control in the African social wasp, Polybioides tabidus. Current Position: Assistant professor Grand Valley State University
Yong Zhu The origin of microsatellites and their application to the study of social evolution in the cellular slime mold, Dictyostelium discoideum. Current Position: Assistant Professor, Yale Medical School
Eva Tóth Conflict over male production in stingless bees.
Angelo Fortunato Sociality in Polistes. Chimeras in social amoebae
Monica Landi Genetics of stenogastrine wasps and social amoebae
Andrea Lasagni Transformation of wild D. discoideum and recognition among clones of P. violaceum
Lorenzo Santorelli Mechanisms of cheating behavior in the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum
Sara Middlemist Mutation accumulation in D. discoideum
Clea Scala Natural selection on D. discoideum microsatellites
David Castillo The effect of amoeba condition on spore allocation

Postdoctoral Fellows

Kevin R. Foster
(past Huxley Fellow)
Worker policing, chimerism in social amoebae, spite
Marcus Kronforst Genetics and evolution of Heliconius butterflies
Natasha Mehdiabadi Examining chimerism and exploitation in Dictyostelium purpureum