I'm recruiting for a fully-funded masters or PhD student to work in my lab at @EEOB_OSU starting August 2024! The specific project is up to the student, but should broadly focus on the role of plasticity in helping organisms cope with environmental change.

#ISBE2022 wouldn’t be complete without seeing wild #sticklebacks in Sweden!

Excited about our new paper in Proc B today showing that ecological information can be transmitted horizontally between neighboring territorial males, and then passed vertically to offspring. (1/3) royalsocietypublishing.org/d… @UDaytonCAS @AlisonB99479824

We’ve kicked this summer off with #darter collecting! Lauren Roy ‘23 (funded by @univofdayton and @ud_hsi) is studying the various species of darters around the Dayton area to better understand how their populations are affected by changes in water quality!

Celebrating the end of the semester and @marinemyelement finishing collecting data on her first PhD experiment!

Excited to celebrate all the cool research being done in the lab this year at the @univofdayton #StanderSymposium today!

As part of their independent project, Will Ogburn (‘23) and Lauren Roy (‘23) observed this #stickleback #father retrieve two free-swimming fry that wandered off and spit them back into his nest @univofdayton @UDaytonCAS

Recent write-up of our new paper showing the ways in which fathers influence offspring via combined effects of sperm and paternal care igb.illinois.edu/article/can…

The breeding season is nearing its end, but that does not mean the spawning has stopped! Look closely in this dad’s nest to see nearly 80 babies! #stickleback #paternalcare @univofdayton

Excited to share our newest paper! Paternal exposure to predation risk has similar effects on offspring regardless of whether the effects are mediated via sperm alone, or a combination of sperm and paternal care! @AlisonB99479824 @erika_carlson authors.elsevier.com/a/1dZR%…

So glad I got to spend a week on the Navarro River with @KateLaskowski and @LauraStein09 showing me some #stickleback fathers! #fieldwork

Excited to have these beautiful males start mating!

First stickleback nest of the year! (And of the lab)

Excited to have research up and running! Collected fish (and successfully sent them to the lab despite FedEx's best efforts) and built the recirculating systems (without any leaks so far)!

Interested in transgenerational plasticity and fishes? I have a fully-funded graduate position for students with a flexible start date of either January or August 2021. Contact me for more details!