The lab welcomes Shanelle Wikramanayake from California State University Northridge while she uses our facilities to section, label, and image frog brains for markers of neuronal activation.
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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