Principal Investigator
Dr. Aimee Sue Dunlap
PhD in Ecology, Evolution & Behavior, University of Minnesota, 2009
MS in Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University, 2002
BS, BA in Biology, History, & English, University of Memphis, 2000
Partial BS studies, University of Helsinki, 1996-98
Office: 204 Stadler
Email: aimee.dunlap@umsl.edu
Graduate Students
Matt Austin
PhD Student
B.S. in Biological Sciences, University of Missouri – Columbia, 2014
Research Interests: Behavioral responses to environmental change; phenotypic plasticity; bumble bee ecology
Office: 202 Stadler
Email: mwacpb@mail.umsl.edu
Andreia Figueiredo
PhD Student
B.S. in Biology, Universidade Federal do Maranhão, Brazil, 2014
MBA in Project Management – Escola de Negocios Excellence, Brazil
Research Interests: social behavior in Hymenoptera, social information and competition, conservation
Office: 202 Stadler
Email: aqtpb@mail.umsl.edu
Pablo Iturralde
MS student, co-advised with Wendy Olivas
Bachelor in interdisciplinary studies (Chemistry, Management & Anthropology), University of Missouri, St. Louis, 2013
A.A. in business management, Miami Dade College, 2004
Research Interests: molecular and evolutionary mechanisms of cognition
Undergraduate Students & Collaborating Graduates
Michael Austin, fly bioeconomics, generalization of learning in flies
Joe Rund (graduated in Spring 2017), social networking in flies
Lynnsey Street (graduated Fall 2016), gene expression of anesthesia-resistant and long-term memory in flies
Adam Thompson, patch use in flies
Katherine West, patch preference in flies & generalization of preference
Lab Alumni
Itachi Mills
MS in 2017
B.S. in Fisheries & Wildlife, University of Minnesota- Twin Cities, 2012
Research Interests: evolution of fear and predation responses
Ben Abts
MS in 2016
B.S. in Biology, Culver-Stockton College, 2010
Research Interests: the value of social information and forgetting
Priya Maharaj
PhD in 2016, co-advised with Godfrey Bourne
MS in Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of Warwick, 2011
BSc in Biology, University of Guyana, 2005
Dissertation: Color-mediated foraging by pollinators: A comparative study of two passionflower butterflies at Lantana camara
Mellissa Marcus
MS in 2016
B.S. in Biochemistry/Biotechnology, University of Missouri- St. Louis, 2012
Research Interests: evolution of color preference
Isabel Rojas-Ferrer
MS in 2016
Thesis: Predicting choices in bumblebees (Bombus impatiens): learning rules and the two-armed bandit
Now a PhD student at University of Ottawa
Dr. Nancy Kohn
Postdoc, 2012-2014
Now an assistant professor at Lyon College
