Our research focuses on gaining a mechanistic understanding of how individuals and populations respond to changes in their environment in order to project how future change may alter a population’s dynamics and evolutionary trajectory. ​

Breaking News

  • ​So thrilled that incoming graduate student Maina Handmaker has been awarded a Graduate Research Fellowship from NSF. Congrats, Maina!
  • We are excited to announce that we have been awarded a grant from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation's Atlantic Flyway Shorebird Initiative. The project--in collaboration with Felicia Sanders from the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources, Andy Johnson from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, and Maina Handmaker from the Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve Network (and, soon, the Senner Lab)--will help us pinpoint the role played by nocturnal roost sites in determining the outcome of long-distance migrations. Stay tuned for shorebird migration tracks and, hopefully, some exciting results! 
  • When the term 'extreme athlete' is mentioned, they might not be the first to come to mind, but high-elevation deer mice are some of the most extreme athletes out there. Working with Day's Edge Productions, along with colleagues Zac Cheviron and Shane Campbell-Staton, we have a new video out on the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Biointeractive website. The video highlights the adaptations that aid mice while living at high elevations; let's just say that human endurance athletes should be jealous!
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Department of Biological Sciences
University of South Carolina​
Coker Life Sciences 406
Columbia, South Carolina, U.S.A.