About

Our research aims to understand the factors that drive organisms to move and what consequences movement has for individuals, species, and communities.

Read the CBS blog posts about the lab and research here and the prairie dispersal project here.

See more about the Biological Theory Alliance (BioTA) at University of Minnesota here.

Upcoming

May-2018	Lauren Shoemaker is giving a talk at the Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases conference in Glasgow
Aug-2018	ESA 2018! Lauren Sullivan, Lauren, Shoemaker and Topher are all attending the Ecological Society of America meeting and giving talks
Aug-2018	ISBE 2018 will be in Minneapolis, MN
Aug-2018	Topher is giving a talk at the Second Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology in Montpellier France
Aug-2018	Allison is attending the SFI working group on Spatio-Temporal Patterning in Ecology
Sep-2018	Damon Leach is joining the lab in the fall to work on at UROP project with Topher on the dynamics of small, socially-structured populations
Nov-2018	Allison is giving a talk on vector movement and pathogen spread at the Entomological Society of America meeting

Recent news & events

May-2018	Dennis Kim joined the lab for the summer to work on a modeling project related to migration and parasites.
May-2018	Sandra Binning visited from the Université de Montréal and gave the EEB seminar.
May-2018	We ran a Market Science on Parasites on May 5th at the Midtown Farmers Market
Apr-2018	Lauren Sullivan's paper on how the gender composition of student groups impacts course performance is out here, in PLoS One
Mar-2018	Allison gave a talk in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Colorado Boulder
Mar-2018	Lauren Shoemaker started her James S McDonnell Foundation postdoc fellowship
Mar-2018	Lauren Sullivan's paper on the impacts of multiple ecological stressors is out here, in Ecology Letters
Mar-2018	Allison was named an Early Career Fellow of the Ecological Society of America
Feb-2018	Topher gave a talk at the JF Crow Institute for the Study of Evolution at UW Madison as part of their Early Career Scientist Seminar Series
Jan-2018	Paper with Hanna Kokko and Mike Neubert on how sex differences and Allee effects influence the dynamics of sex structured invasions is (finally) out in Journal of Animal Ecology. This is part of a special feature on Allee Effects that results from the Organized Oral Session Allee Effects: Theory and Applications at ESA 2015.
Jan-2018	Allison gave a talk at the ASN Stand Alone Conference in Asilomar
Nov-2017	Allison gave a talk in Organismal Biology, Ecology, and Evolution at the University of Montana
Oct-2017	Allison visited the University of Georgia and gave talks in the Odum School of Ecology, and the Center for the Ecology of Infectious Diseases
Oct-2017	Allison gave a talk in Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology at Iowa State University
Sep-2017	Lauren Sullivan was awarded the 2017 UMN CBS Impactful Research Award for Postdoctoral Scientists. Congrats!
Sep-2017	Lauren Sullivan was selected for the SciArt residency program to create science-based art. Follow her blog here.
Aug-2017	Paper with Sandra and Dom on how parasites affect animal movement out in Integrative and Comparative Biology. (Based on Sandra's talk at SICB.)
Aug-2017	Gita's paper on patterns of migration in mammals is out here, in Ecology and Evolution
Aug-2017	ESA 2017! Lauren Sullivan gave a talk on resource-driven variation in dispersal; Topher gave a talk on variance in range expansions; Lauren Shoemaker gave a talk on dispersal and coexistence in metacommunities; Allison gave a talk on the spread of sex- and age-structured populations
Jul-2017	NSF project with Marlene Zuk, Meggan Craft, and Sandra Binning on parasites as a selective pressure on seasonal migration started. We are recruiting undergrads interested for this project. Email Allison if you are interested.
Jun-2017	Paper with Angie, Sunny, and Nilsa from our NIMBioS Working Group on the effects of vectors on plant pathogen spread is out in Ecology
May-2017	Lauren Shoemaker started as a postdoc in the lab, and will be working on our NSF grant with Elizabeth Borer and Eric Seabloom studying the role of vector movement behavior in spreading disease
May-2017	Topher Weiss-Lehman started as a postdoc in the lab, and will be studying range expansions under changing environmental conditions
May-2017	Morganne completed her bachelors degree in math and is headed off to the University of Tennessee-Knoxville to start a PhD in math this fall.