Lab News

NSFCongratulations to Emily Jacobs-Palmer and Hillery Metz, both of whom received a NSF Dissertation Improvement Grant.
Congrats to Postdoc Rowan Barrett, who was awarded the Young Investigator Prize from The American Society of Naturalists. (02/12)
Postdocs Andres Bendesky, Rowan Barrett and Jean-Marc Lassance are awarded the Helen Hay Whitney Postdoctoral Fellowship, the NSERC Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship and the Human Frontiers in Science Postdoctoral Fellowship, respectively. (01/12)
  • The Hoekstra Lab uses wild and laboratory populations of rodents to study the molecular, genetic and developmental basis of evolutionary change.
  • The Hoekstra Lab combines field and laboratory work to study adaptation in natural populations.
  • The Hoekstra Lab uses natural populations of rodents to study the genetic basis of adaptation – from morphology to behavior.
  • The Hoekstra Lab uses natural history collections to study temporal changes in morphological variation.
  • Postdoc Brant Peterson and graduate student Hillery Metz are studying the genetic basis of burrowing behavior in a controlled lab environment.
  • Former postdoc Catherine Linnen studies the genetics of camouflaging color in deer mouse populations in Nebraska.
  • PhD student Emily Jacobs-Palmer and postdoc Heidi Fisher are studying the genetic basis of reproductive traits (such as sperm morphology and behavior) influenced by sexual selection.
  • PhD student Emily Kay is interested in the behavioral and genomic basis of reproductive isolation in sympatric species of mice.
  • Postdoc Rowan Barrett uses field enclosures to measure the fitness in natural populations of mice.
  • Postdoc Brant Peterson uses custom video analysis software to measure burrowing behavior in mice.
  • PhD student Emily Kay is searching for a signature of reproductive isolation in the genomes of sister species of mice.
  • Postdoc Marie Manceau uses viral vectors to test the role of genes, and their underlying developmental mechanisms, on pigment patterning in vivo.
  • PhD student Evan Kingsley studies the genetic and developmental basis of long tails in arboreal forest deer mice.
  • PhD student Hillery Metz is studying the neural basis of burrowing behavior in deer mice.
  • Postdoc Vera Domingues combines phenotypic measurements with population genomics to study the molecular basis of adaptation.
  • Postdoc Marie Manceau (left) uses laboratory colonies of wild mice to study the developmental basis of morphological diversification.
  • PhD student Evan Kingsley works with both laboratory and field populations to study skeletal evolution in mice.
  • Postdoc Heidi Fisher studies sperm competition and cooperation in monogamous versus promiscuous species of mice.
  • Former postdoc Catherine Linnen (left) uses plasticine mouse models to study the fitness effects of camouflaging color.
  • Postdoc Andres Bendesky is interested in the genetic and neurobiological basis of social behavior in deer mice.
  • Postdoc Vera Domingues is using a population-genomics approach to study the evolutionary history of Florida beach mice.
  • PhD student Emily Kay is collecting DNA from wild populations of mice from across the southeastern US.
  • PhD student Hillery Metz is studying the neural basis of burrowing behavior in deer mice.
  • Postdoc Jean-Marc Lassance is studying the genetic and neurobiological basis of odor preference in wild mice.
  • Postdocs Marie Manceau and Ricardo Mallarino study the developmental basis of pigmentation and patterning in mammals.
  • Postdoc Yu-Ping Poh uses patterns of DNA nucleotide variation to identify signatures of natural selection in the genome.
  • PhD student Evan Kingsley is interested in the genetics of climbing preference and performance in prairie versus forest deer mice.
  • Postdoc Rowan Barrett uses field experiments to measure fitness in wild populations of mice.
  • Postdoc Vera Domingues is studying the evolutionary history of natural populations and the adaptive alleles segregating wihtin them.
  • PhD student Wenfei Tong is working on the social behavior of mound-building mice in Bulgaria.
  • Former PhD student Jesse Weber studied the genetics of burrowing behavior in both the lab and the field.
  • Postdoc Heidi Fisher is interested in the genetic basis of sperm competition in highly promiscuous mice.