Current group:

Renee Duckworth (PI)
Jordan Veal
Stepfanie Aguillon
Lakshana Sreenivasan
Judy Quach
Selene Fregosi
Tyler MacMaster
Laura Kennedy
Erin Morrison

Funding:
NSF PopBio 918095

New papers:

Duckworth RA. and Sockman, KW. 2012. Proximate mechanisms of behavioural inflexibility: Implications for the evolution of personality traits. Functional Ecology: In press.

Duckworth RA. 2012. Ecological and evolutionary feedbacks in evolution of aggression. In Yasukawa K. (ed) Function and Evolution of Animal Behavior. Praeger, New York

Duckworth RA. 2012. Evolution of genetically integrated dispersal strategies. In: Clobert J, et. al (eds) Informed Dispersal and Spatial Evolutionary Ecology. Oxford Univ. Press

Duckworth RA. 2011. Toward an integrated concept of the phenotype. Book review. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 26: 381-382

Duckworth RA. 2010. Evolution of personality: developmental constraints on behavioral plasticity. Invited Perspective. Auk: Int. J. Ornthol. 127: 752-758

Recent talks:

-Symposium "Phenotypic variation and fitness". 5th NAOC, Vancouver, BC, (Aug 2012)

-Stanford University, Department of Biology, (May 2012)

-Colorado State University, Ecology and Evol Biology, (Jan 2012)

-Cornell University, Neurobiology & Behavior, (Nov 2011)

-Michigan State University; Department of Biology, (Dec 2011)

-University of California-Riverside; Department of Biology, (Mar 2011)

-University of California-Davis, Ecology & Evolution, (Feb 2011)

-Plenary Lecture, North American Ornithological Conference, San Diego (Feb 2010)

Editorial:

Evolutionary Ecology Associate Editor

Condor: Internat. J. Avian Biology
Associate Editor

Media:

-The Scientist
-National Wildlife
-Science News
-ScienceNOW

Next class:

ECOL 610: EEB Grad course
(Fall 2011/Spring 2012)

ECOL 484/584: Ornithology
(Fall 2012)

Awards:

Young Investigator Prize, American Society of Naturalists, 2010

Ned K. Johnson Award, American Ornithologists Union, 2009