Lab News

NSF Hopi Hoekstra gives the 2013 Commencement address for the Integrative Biology Department at UC Berkeley. (05/13)
NSF Congratulations to another successful year for the Hoekstra Lab Wondergrads. (05/13)
NSF Congratulations to Emily Kay for being awarded the George W. Barlow Award from the Animal Behavior Society. (05/13)
  • 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 Rowan Barrett uses field enclosures to measure fitness in natural populations of mice.
  • Postdoc Heidi Fisher measures divergent sperm morphology associated with sperm competition.
  • 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.
  • Former postdoc Marie Manceau uses viral vectors to test the role of genes, and their underlying developmental mechanisms, on pigment patterning in vivo.
  • Graduate student Emily Jacobs-Palmer does science outreach work in local schools and museums.
  • PhD student Evan Kingsley studies the genetic and developmental basis of long tails in arboreal forest deer mice.
  • Postdoc Heidi Fisher studies sperm cooperation in monogamous versus promiscuous species of mice.
  • Postdoc Yu-Ping Poh uses patterns of DNA nucleotide variation to identify signatures of natural selection in the genome.
  • PhD student Hillery Metz is studying the neural basis of burrowing behavior in deer mice.
  • PhD student Evan Kingsley works with both laboratory and field populations to study skeletal evolution in mice.
  • PhD student Emily Kay is collecting DNA from wild populations of mice from across the southeastern US.
  • Postdoc Andres Bendesky uses automated methods to quantify natural variation in mouse behavior.
  • Postdoc Rowan Barrett uses plasticine models to evaluate if natural selection favors cryptic pigmentation in deer mice.
  • 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.
  • Graduate student Zain Ali is studying the genetic and neurobiological basis of burrowing in wild mice.
  • Postdoc Andres Bendesky is interested in the genetic and neurobiological basis of parental behavior in Peromyscus.
  • Postdoc Ricardo Mallarino uses a combination of developmental and genomic approaches to uncover the genes and mechanisms underlying the formation of pigmentation patterns in different mammals.
  • Graduate student Nicole Bedford is studying the evolutionary history of natural populations and the adaptive alleles segregating wihtin them.
  • Postdoc Brant Peterson and graduate student Hillery Metz are studying the genetic basis of burrowing behavior in a controlled lab environment.
  • Postdoc Ricardo Mallarino study the developmental basis of pigmentation and patterning in mammals.