People
Most people affiliated with us work on insects, although we regularly host and welcome fellows working on other taxa, especially vertebrates, as part of STRI's Fellowship Program (NB: these people are not listed below). Several Fellows work in the Laboratory of Behavior & Evolutionary Neurobiology (LENB), which I direct, and so the facilities and personnel really function as one large group.
Post-doctoral Fellows
- Jeremy Niven (LENB), Neurophysiology and behavior of insects
- Marc Seid (LENB), Neuroanatomy and behavior of insects
- John Douglass (LENB), Neurophysiology and behavior of insects
- Adam Smith, Behavioral ecology and neuroanatomy of nocturnal sweat bees
- Simon Tierney, Behavior, phylogenetic reconstruction and patterns of gene evolution in nocturnal bees
- Hubert Herz, Colony movements and disease ecology in attine ants
- Hermógenes Fernández-Marín, Public health and disease ecology in attine ants
Pre-doctoral Fellows and Short-term Fellows
- Karen Kapheim (University of California, Los Angeles), Gene expression and social behavior in facultatively social nocturnal bees
- Andre Riveros (University of Arizona), Social complexity and neuroanatomy in attine ants
- Natalia Biani (University of Texas), Symbiotic relationships between nocturnal bees and their mites
- Michael Reiser (University of Ulm), Chemical ecology of caste differentiation in nocturnal bees.
Interns (current or working in the lab in 2007 only)
- Luis Elizondo (co-supervised with Marc Seid), Brain and body size scaling in ants
- Therany Gonzalez (co-supervised with Simon Tierney), Trans-isthmian variation in social behavior in bees
- Isis Lopez (co-supervised with Adam Smith), Pollen utilization by nocturnal bees
- Betzi Perez (co-supervised with Hermógenes Fernández-Marín), Parasite-host dynamics of attine ants and diapriine wasps (currently a Master's student at the Universidad Nacional Autónomo de México)
- Margarita Lopez, Foraging behavior of nocturnal bees in relation to light levels (beginning doctoral studies at Cornell University)
- Danny Velez, Spatial fidelity in the foraging behavior of Ectatomma ants (beginning Master's studies at the University of the West Indies)
Research Technicians
- Armando Castillo (LENB, supervised by Marc Seid and Jeremy Niven)
- Paola Galgani
Interested in an internship?
Please contact me if you are interested in joining any of the research projects in these labs; our working language is either English or Spanish. We are especially interested in providing intern opportunities to students from groups that are traditionally under-represented in science.