We are interested in the causes and consequences of behavioral diversity and plasticity, with a particular focus on the impact of social behavior on disease spread. We seek to understand how individual traits, the social environment, and the epidemiological context shape individual and collective behavior.

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Our research combines laboratory experiments with live ant colonies, computational analyses of individual and collective behavior, as well as molecular and chemical approaches in a uniquely accessible and genetically tractable social insect, the clonal raider ant.