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Senior Brandon Allen received a SURF grant for his research on butterfly brain development. Senior Jacob Siebenmorgen received a Honors College Research grant for his research on male reproductive resource allocation plasticity; and junior Gabby Agcaoili received a Honors College Research grant for her research on sexual dimorphism in learning. Congratulations to all three for Read More …

Check out Research: United States National Postdoc Survey results and the interaction of gender, career choice, and mentor impact, published here.

Postdoc Dr. Dave Ernst comes to the Integrative Animal Behavior Lab from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where he used transcriptomics and behavioral ecology to study magnetoreception in spiny lobsters. He is looking forward to honing his genomics techniques while studying behavioral genetics and developmental plasticity in tropical butterflies at UARK.

Sushant Potdar comes to the Integrative Animal Behavior Lab from Bangalore India, after completing a MSc at TERI School of Advanced Studies in New Dehli, and working as a project assistant at the National Centre for Biological Sciences in Bangalore. He has lots of experience conducting field work with butterflies in the Himalayas, and is Read More …

Check out our new paper in Current Biology in collaboration with the Kronforst Lab at the University of Chicago on the role of Aristaless in Heliconius color patterning.  

Congratulations to graduate students Grace Hirzel, Matt Murphy, and Nikki Robertson on presenting at their first international scientific meeting!

Our preprint of the results from the National Postdoc Survey 2016 have been featured in Science Careers: Cities offer great postdoc opportunities-but make sure you factor in the cost of living and These studies offer a realistic view of postdoc life- and guidance for making career decisions that work for you  

Nikki successfully defended her MSc thesis examining the effects of early social environment and circadian rhythms on the mating behavior of Bicyclus anynana and Heliconius hewitsoni today (Aug 29, 2018).   Congratulations to the first graduate student in (and out) of the lab!

The preprint of our MS detailing the main National Postdoc Survey results from 7,600+ U.S. postdoc respondents can now be found here on BioRxiv.

Westerman Lab Seniors Peyton Rather and Abby Herzog graduated Friday, May 11th 2018, after spending a year and a half studying Heliconius mating behavior and learning ability, and helping us set up our butterfly facility. Wishing them both much success in all their future endeavors!