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 (pending) 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
Itachi Mills
MS student
B.S. in Fisheries & Wildlife, University of Minnesota- Twin Cities, 2012
Research Interests: evolution of fear and predation responses
Office: Stadler 202
Undergraduate Students & Collaborating Graduates
Michael Austin, fly bioeconomics, generalization of learning in flies
Magnus Creed (graduated Fall 2016), fly brain imaging
Hannah Franko (graduated Fall 2016), generalization of preference in flies, vocal recognition in cats
Joe Rund, 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
Lab Alumni
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
