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

Mar-2019

Allison is leading a session on causes and consequences of variation in animal movement at the 2019 Movement Ecology of Animals Gordon Research Conference in Italy

Recent news & events

NOW	Currently recruiting an undergraduate for a summer 2019 research project! See more here.
Jan-2019	Lauren Sullivan started a new position as an Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences at the University of Missouri. Congrats!!
Nov-2018	Julie's paper with Allison, Keith Barker and Marlene Zuk showing that migrants can simultaneously have more and less parasite infection than residents is out in Proc B here
Nov-2018	Allison gave a talk on vector movement and pathogen spread as part of a special session on vector-borne diseases of plants, animals and humans at the Entomological Society of America meeting
Nov-2018	Lauren Sullivan's paper with Allison, Adam Clark, and Dave Tilman showing that dispersal kernels derived from plant traits can explain population/community-level patterns of recruitment and sucession is out in Ecology here
Oct-2018	Lauren Sullivan gave a a seminar in EEB at Washington University
Sep-2018	Paper with Pete Buston and Cass D'Aloia looking at how landscape structure affects dispersal kernel evolution was accepted in Am Nat
Sep-2018	Lauren Shoemaker moved to the University of Wyoming where she will be starting a faculty position in the Botany Department. Congrats!!
Sep-2018	Naven Narayanan joined the lab and EEB to start his PhD
Sep-2018	Damon Leach joined the lab in the fall to work on at UROP project with Topher on the dynamics of small, socially-structured populations
Aug-2018	Topher gave a talk at the Second Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology in Montpellier France
Aug-2018	Allison attended the SFI working group on Spatio-Temporal Patterning in Ecology
Aug-2018	ISBE 2018 was in Minneapolis, MN
Aug-2018	Awesome representation at ESA 2018! Lauren Shoemaker talked about vector movement behavior and plant pathogen spread, Lauren Sullivan and Katie both talked about plant dispersal and spillover in restored prairies, and Topher talked about dispersal evolution and keeping up with climate-induced range shifts.
Jul-2018	Katie Sperry re-joined the lab as a technician to help understand dispersal and connectivity in Minnesota's prairies
May-2018	Lauren Shoemaker gave a talk at the Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases conference in Glasgow
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