About

Ensuring a diversity of voices in science is both the just thing to do and leads to better science overall. See my thoughts on the role of diversity for theory in biology here.

I am committed to providing a safe and equitable lab environment. You can read more about our lab expectations (here) and regular self-assessments (here); these are actions we take to realize this commitment.

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.

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Recent news & events

Aug-2023	Naven's paper on how mutualisms shape range expansion speeds was accepted in Ecology!
Aug-2023	Peter gave a poster presentation at the 2023 Ecological Society of America meeting...and won the Simberloff Award for best poster presentation!
Aug-2023	New paper with Marie Levet and Sandra Binning presenting a broad evolutionary framework to understand selective pressures of parasites on migration distance is accepted in Ecology Letters.
Jun-2023	New paper with Lauren Sullivan is out in Ecology!
Jun-2023	Naven presented at the 2023 Evolution meeting
May-2023	The 2023 Gordon Research Conference on movement ecology of animals! Allison, Dennis and Martha all presented. Martha and Dennis also presented at the earlier Gordon Research Seminar
May-2023	New paper with Frithjof Lutscher and Lea Popovic is out in Ecology Letters!
May-2023	Fellowship round-up! Cece was awarded an REU for summer 2023 at Northwestern. Dennis was awarded the Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship for 2023-2024. Martha was awarded the Torske Klubben Fellowship for 2023-2024. Congratulations!
May-2023	Allison gave a talk at the St. Olaf College Math Bio Symposium!
Mar-2023	The papers from our ESA sessions on mutualism are now online in Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America! Chris and Allison's paper on movement and mutualisms is here, Naven's paper on theory and mutualisms is here
Mar-2023	paper by Allison, Martha, Meggan, and Sandra on using evolutionary game theory to study migration is now out in Phil Trans B, as part of the special issue for the 50th anniversary of John Maynard Smith's work.
Jan-2023	Naven gave a talk at the ASN Asilomar conference
Jan-2023	Amanda's paper on theory for dispersal in urban environments is out in Population Ecology!
Dec-2022	Martha passed her written and oral prelim exams and has advanced to PhD candidacy -- congrats, Martha!
Oct-2022	New paper by Allison, Martha, Meggan, and Sandra on using evolutionary game theory to study migration was accepted in Phil Trans B, as part of an issue for the 50th anniversary of John Maynard Smith's work.
Sep-2022	Ruby joined the lab to do a research project on models of migration in North American songbirds
Aug-2022	ESA 2022! Naven ran a symposium on new theory for mutualistic interactions, and gave a talk on his PhD work. Allison co-organized an organized oral session with Chris Moore on empirical perspectives the movement ecology of mutualisms but couldn't attend in person - thanks, covid.
Jul-2022	Dennis was awarded an NSF INTERN award for the fall. Congratulations!
Jul-2022	Amanda started a new position at the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency. Congrats!!
Jul-2022	New paper on how symbionts can shape the population spread of their hosts was accepted in Oikos!
Jun-2022	Naven attended a workshop on mathematics for evolution during range expansions at the Fields Institute in Toronto in Jun-2020 Nov-2021 Jun-2022
Jun-2022	New paper with Frithjof Lutscher and Lea Popovic was accepted in Theoretical Ecology!
Jun-2022	Amanda's paper on theory for dispersal in urban environments was accepted in Population Ecology!
Jun-2022	Cece joined the lab for a summer REU to work with Martha on a modeling project about virulence of pathogens that infect migratory species; Peter joined the lab for the summer to work with Naven on a modeling project about mutualism and dispersal
May-2022	Martha has been awarded the Torske Klubben Fellowship for 2022-2023. Congratulations!
Apr-2022	Naven gave a seminar at the University of Virginia
Apr-2022	Allison gave a seminar in the Centre for Applied Mathematics in Bioscience and Medicine seminar series
Mar-2022	Naven was featured in the Market Science blog!
Mar-2022	Allison's paper on why diverse perspectives (arising from diverse identies) are critical for theory development in biology was accepted in Theoretical Ecology!
Feb-2022	New paper by Topher exploring how the genetic structure of dispersal affects dispersal evolution in spreading population was accepted in Evolutionary Ecology!
Jan-2022	New paper led by Sandra outlining future empirical directions based on some of our modeling work is here now in Biological Reviews!