![]() Ben started at Durham University for his BSc in Zoology and then moved swiftly into studying insects with a MSc in Entomology from Imperial College London. His PhD at the University of Cambridge focused on the role of parental care in driving evolutionary change. He followed his PhD with a postdoc at Michigan State University exploring adaptation of parasitoid wasps to novel hosts. Ben joined the Miller Lab in 2020 with funding from the Human Frontiers Science Program where he will be investigating how coreids adapt to the social environment (e.g. male-male competition) and how this influences host plant use.
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![]() Sam completed a B.S. in Molecular Environmental Biology and a B.A. in Psychology at the University of California Berkeley followed by an M.S. in Biological Sciences at Purdue University. They joined the Miller Lab as a Ph.D. student in 2018 and began studying feeding adaptations in leaf-footed bugs. Their dissertation research focuses on phenotypic plasticity in mouthpart size as well as social feeding behaviors. Sam enjoys writing about a broad range of scientific and environmental topics for general audiences and accepted a AAAS Mass Media Fellowship to work at the Smithsonian Magazine for Summer 2022.
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