We are happy to announce that Mariana Rodriguez has joined the lab as a postdoctoral fellow. Welcome! Mariana recently finished her PhD work at University of Texas- Austin where she focused on understanding the aspects of the social environment that modulates both group and individual-level learning response in dynamic dominance hierarchies of a cichlid fish, Astatotilapia burtoni. Mariana is now planning to study frog acoustic communication, and how hormones affect the temporal dynamics of auditory processing in females during mating decisions.
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Our primary goal is to understand the processes that shape evolutionary trajectories. We focus on the mechanisms of convergent evolution of behavioral and morphological traits. We link molecular, neural, and developmental mechanisms to their consequences for organismal phenotypes, and we investigate the neural and hormonal mechanisms of context- or experience-dependent changes in behavior.
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