epigenetics and 

adaptive plasticity

We study social behavior, stress physiology, immune function, color evolution and patterns of genetic and epigenetic variation along gradients of elevation, precipitation and temperature across the globe.

We explore the molecular mechanisms that underlie local adaptation by  the role of structural variation (inversions, copy number variants and transposable elements) in the evolution of behavioral polymorphisms.

We examine how environmental conditions during development influence social phenotypes, stress physiology and ultimately fitness throughout life by studying DNA methylation, microRNAs, and hormones.

linking diverse 

datesets

We use machine learning and generative AI to quantify complex morphologies from images,  sophisticated behaviors from video recordings, and individual identities from sound recordings.

We use AI to improve species distribution modeling and other forms of predictive modeling to determine how organisms are likely to respond to and cope with climate and land-use change.

We use AI to help connect diverse biological datasets (molecular, morphological, behavioral, physiological) with environmental data to examine organismal responses to environmental change.