Our lab is mainly interested in how sociality evolves and is maintained with relation to reproductive division of labor. We study behavioral and chemical mechanisms used  to regulate reproduction in nestmates. We experiment with a diverse group of social insects - ants from different subfamilies and termites. Thus, our insect systems vary in social complexity and structure, which should help in extracting common features of sociality, and this, in turn, may shed light on the evolution of sociality.

Other projects focus on the analysis of worker aggression, caste determination, and life history aspects of the evolution and maintenance of eusociality.

Our lab was featured on the AZPBS' ASU Research program:
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