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!
Dr. Tim Sullivan will be joining the Gloucester Marine Genomics Institute as a Fishery Research Scientist late spring 2018. Tim has been a wonderful lab member and colleague this past year, and will be missed. Best of luck on this new adventure!
The Westerman Lab had a strong showing at the Arkansas Entomology Society Annual Meeting Feb 17th at Hobbs State Park. MSc student Nikki Robertson gave an oral presentation on her research on larval imprinting; PhD students Matt Murphy and Grace Hirzel gave poster presentations on global and local patterns of insect visual ecology; and senior Read More …
Our paper in collaboration with the Kronforst Lab at UChicago on signal weighting, male preference, and male preference genetics in Papilio polytes was recently published in Behavioural Processes. Check out the link here
