Current group:

Renee Duckworth (PI)
Kathryn Chenard | grad
Matthew Moelling | grad
Matt Jenkins | grad
Haley Gee | grad
Juliana Kosters | tech
Goran Dzudza | undergrad
Kate Walker | undergrad
Sarah Rubenstein | undergrad
Daniel Knight | undergrad
Forrest Zepezauer | undergrad

Alumni:

Ahva Potticary | grad
Chris Gurguis | grad
Stepfanie Aguillon | grad
James Mouton | postdoc
Georgy Semenov | postdoc
Kelly Hallinger | postdoc
Hannah Quick | undergrad
Anne-Laure Blanche | honor
Alexis Anderson | honor
Savannah Miller | REU
Taylor Bobowski | REU
Fatima Bravo | tech
Caitlin Gill| tech
Ellen Ouelette | tech
Allison Byrd | tech
Selene Fregosi | tech
Tayler LaSharr | UBRP
Anna Sevic | undergrad
Judy Quach | undergrad
Fernando Diaz | undergrad
Hannah Specht | tech

Funding:
NSF CAREER Pop & Comm Ecol, DEB-1350107

New papers:

Badyaev, AV, Lee, CA, Gleason, MJ, Semenov, GA, Britton, SE, & Duckworth, RA. Submitted. Tuning transcriptional regulation to cell phase transitions delineates population divergence in beak development. PNAS.

Chenard, KC, Blanche, ALB, Kosters, J, & Duckworth, RA. Submitted. Fitness consequences of social and non-social personality traits depend on context and experience Animal Behaviour

Gurguis, CI, Duckworth, RA, Bucaro, NM, Walss-Bass, C. Submitted. Fitness consequences of depressive symptoms vary between generations: evidence from a large cohort of women across the 20th century. PNAS

Duckworth, RA, Chenard, KC, Meza, L, Beiriz Silva, M. 2023. Coping styles vary with species' sociality and life history: A systematic review and meta-regression analysis. Neurosciences and Biobehavioral Reviews, 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2023.105241.

Zenil-Ferguson, R, McEntee, JP, Burleigh, JG, Duckworth, RA. 2023. Linking ecological specialization to its macroevolutionary consequences: An example with passerine nest site. Systematic Biology, syac083.

Mouton, JC, Duckworth, RA, et al. 2022. Nest predation risk and deposition of yolk steroids in a cavity nesting songbird: an experimental test. J. Exp. Biol. 225: jeb243047.

Gurguis, CI & Duckworth, RA. 2022. Dynamic changes in begging signal short-term information on hunger and need. The American Naturalist 199: 705-718.

Mouton, JC & Duckworth, RA. 2021. Maternally-derived hormones, neurosteroids and the development of behaviour. Proc. Roy. Soc. B. 288: 20202467.

New talks:

U Wyoming "EEB Seminar Series", Laramie, WY (Nov 2023)

Symposium: "Ecology of collective behavior", Animal Behaviour Society, Porland, OR (July 2023)

Symposium: "Maternal engineering: Non-genetic contributions to the offspring phenotype", ENES Morelia UNAM (Dec 2022)

University of Arizona "Genetics GIDP Seminar Series", Tucson, Arizona (November 2022)

University of Arizona "EEB Seminar Series", Tucson, Arizona (September 2022)

Workshop:  "Evolutin of Personality in Animals and Humans", Erice, Italy (Sept 2021)

University of Bern "Behavioral, Evolutionary and Theoretical Ecology Seminar Series", Bern, Switzerland (March 2021)

American Society of Naturalists' Symposium: "Merging behavioural ecology with eco-evolutionary dynamics", Asilomar, CA (Jan 2020)

Plenary Lecture, Evolution Evolving Conference, Cambridge University, UK (April 2019)

Editorial:

American Naturalist
Associate Editor

Service:

Templeton Foundation, Scientific Board of Advisors, 2021-present

ASN, Young Investigator Award Committee, 2018-2020

Local Committee, AOS Annual Meeting, Tucson, AZ April 2018

Media:

- This View of Life (2021)
- National Geographic: Book talk (2018)
- Webinar: Evolution and Contextual Behavioral Science (2017)
- Nature: Research Highlights (2015)
- CBS News (2015)
- Science Podcast (2015)
- New Scientist (2013)
- BioScience (2012)
-The Scientist (2011)

Next class:

NEW: ECOL 496/596: Skills in Wildlife Biology
(Spring 2023)

ECOL 484/584: Ornithology
(Spring 2023)

Check out photos from Orn lab here!