Located at the Entomology & Nematology Department, University of Florida
Recent news from our laboratory:
March 2023: We are advertising 3 positions! See the Opportunities page for more details.
March 2023: How does the timing of weapon loss influence reproductive traits and trade-offs in the insect Narnia femorata? Our new paper was just accepted at Evolution.
February 2023: Are you an early career faculty or advanced postdoc working in the field of animal behavior? If so, consider registering for the Weaving the Future of Animal Behavior (WFAB) 2023 workshop. Gail Patricelli and I will be organizing the events this year!
January 2023: Yichen Li presented a poster at the SICB 2023 meeting in Austin, Texas.
November 2022: Congratulations to Yichen Li for successfully completing her M.S. thesis proposal on the effect of male-male competition on female injury.
November 2022: Dr. Christine Miller spoke as part of the Behavior, Ecology, and Evolution Seminar Series at the University of Cambridge.
October 2022: Sam Zlotnik successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation and is soon moving on to a career in science-writing.
August 2022: Dr. Christine Miller is in Cambridge, UK for a year-long academic sabbatical!
August 2022: The Miller Lab has received a $1.2M National Science Foundation award to advance understanding on the evolution of animal weaponry.
July 2022: Our National Science Foundation REU students from Summer 2021 have published on their research, providing valuable information on a fascinating species.
June 2022: Congratulations to James Boothroyd, Kaili Sherman, Merrick Graham, Claire Parker, Gayatri Raina, and Yichen Li for their outstanding poster presentations at the Florida Entomological Society conference.
May 2022: Gayatri Raina and Yichen Li join us to work on competitive injuries in leaf-footed bugs.
April 2022: Benjamin Jarrett, Human Frontiers Fellow, arrives for three months of experimentation with leaf-footed bugs.
April 2022: Christine travelled virtually to the University of Georgia to deliver a seminar on the evolution of insect weaponry
March 2022: Zachary Emberts, former Ph.D. student in the lab, has accepted a faculty position at Oklahoma State University.
February 2022: Congratulations to Ummat Somjee, former M.S. and Ph.D. student in the lab, for receiving the Stengl-Wyer Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Texas at Austin.