Our new paper, led by former lab technician Avigayil Lev and co-authored by lab alum Isabella Martinez, has been published today in Biology Letters. We used hemiclonal analysis to measure the fitness consequences of prolonged matings for males during matings with non-virgin/previously mated females. We found that longer matings resulted in higher competitive fertilization success for males with these previously mated females!

Our new paper, led by Isabella Martinez, has been published today in Animal Behaviour. We used hemiclonal analysis to sample naturally occurring variation in male mating duration and measure the fitness consequences of prolonged matings for both males and females. We found that longer matings resulted in a paternity advantage for males, but lowered the total number of offspring produced by females, indicating sexual conflict over this behavior. 
Read Barnard's coverage of this work here.

Our new paper, coauthored by lab alums Grace Freed ('23), Isabella Martinez ('24), Avigayil Lev ('22 and current lab technician), and Ana-Maria Anthony Cuadrado ('20), has been published today in Ecology and Evolution! In this paper, we use hemiclonal analysis to document additive genetic variation in both pre-copulatory and post-copulatory components of male mate choice for large females! This project was a massive undertaking in which we measured male mate choice for over 1300 fruit flies in total! 
Check out Barnard's coverage of this work here.

Ali presented Isabella Martinez's senior thesis research today at the 3rd Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology in Montreal, Canada. Izzie investigated the fitness consequences of variation in mating duration for both males and females, finding evidence for sexual conflict over mating duration. Click here to see a recording of the presentation!

​Congrats to Ananya Lahiri, Isabella Martinez, and Eliza Tagle, who graduated from Barnard today! Ananya earned a BA in Cellular and Molecular Biology, Eliza earned a BA in Physiological and Organismal Biology, and Izzie earned a BA in Biology and in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies! 

Izzie gave her senior thesis research talk today at the 2024 Biology Research Symposium. Her senior thesis work, funded by a Sigma Xi Grant, studied the fitness consequences of variation in mating duration. She began this work as a junior for her Guided Research & Seminar project. Congrats!

Congratulations to Isabella Martinez, who has been inducted into the Barnard Chapter of  Phi Beta Kappa Society today! Membership into this academic honor society is based on the quality and breadth of Izzie's scholarship as an undergraduate. 

Congratulations to Eliza and Izzie for presenting their summer research projects today at the 2023 Summer Research Institute Poster Session!

Ashley, Grace, Ananya and Izzie presented their Guided Research & Seminar projects today at the Biology Research Symposium. They each gave 1-minute talks and a poster presentation about their work. 

Congratulations to Ashley, Grace, Ananya and Izzie for presenting their summer research projects today at the 2022 SRI Poster Session.  They will all be continuing their projects next year in the Biology Guided Research & Seminar course.