Our research focuses on social interactions and their evolutionary consequences, using the a fruit fly (Drosophila prolongata) as our main study systems. For more information about our current research, visit the page of our research group here.
News
April 2025 – Gayatri will present the findings from her first PhD experiment at the ASAB Spring Conference in Liverpool.
April 2025 – Tom visited the Ethological Station in Bern and presented an IEE seminar.
March 2025 – Tom was attending the entomo.ch meeting of the Swiss Entomological Society (SEG/SES) in Sion.
Feb 2025 – Tom gave the inaugural talk of the Zürich Ecology and Evolution Interaction Seminar at ETH Zurich.
Feb 2025 – Tom was at the Annual meeting of the Ethological Society (Etho2025) in Tutzing, Germany.
Feb 2025 – Gayatri presented a poster at Biology25 in Lausanne.
Feb 2025 – New paper published in Behavioral Ecology!
Dec 2024 – Tom gave an interview for the Insectes Sociaux blog.
Dec 2024 – New review paper published in Insectes Sociaux.
Nov 2024 – Tom gave an invited talk at the joint Biology Colloquium of the University of Bonn and the Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change (LIB) in Bonn, Germany.
Nov 2024 – Gayatri presented a talk at our departmental seminar. Some more exciting spider research!
Oct 2024 – The lab hosted Dr. Daniela Rößler, who gave a 'Halloween special' talk for our departmental seminar. We were very excited to learn about spiders and their sleep habits!
Sept 2024 – Tom presented a talk at the ISBE2024 Congress in Melbourne, Australia.
Sept 2024 – Welcome to Gayatri Raina, who is starting her PhD project in the group!
July 2024 – Tom co-hosted the symposium on social evolution at the 3rd Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology in Montreal, Canada.
June 2024 – Marta Cortés Mediavilla joined the team as research assistant. Welcome Marta!
June 2024 – Tom presented a poster at the Swiss Reproducibility Conference in Zurich.
April 2024 – Kato Kikodze started her master's project in the team. Welcome Kato!
March 2024 – We were interviewed by National Geographic about our review on prey attraction strategies in spiders.
April 2025 – Tom visited the Ethological Station in Bern and presented an IEE seminar.
March 2025 – Tom was attending the entomo.ch meeting of the Swiss Entomological Society (SEG/SES) in Sion.
Feb 2025 – Tom gave the inaugural talk of the Zürich Ecology and Evolution Interaction Seminar at ETH Zurich.
Feb 2025 – Tom was at the Annual meeting of the Ethological Society (Etho2025) in Tutzing, Germany.
Feb 2025 – Gayatri presented a poster at Biology25 in Lausanne.
Feb 2025 – New paper published in Behavioral Ecology!
Dec 2024 – Tom gave an interview for the Insectes Sociaux blog.
Dec 2024 – New review paper published in Insectes Sociaux.
Nov 2024 – Tom gave an invited talk at the joint Biology Colloquium of the University of Bonn and the Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change (LIB) in Bonn, Germany.
Nov 2024 – Gayatri presented a talk at our departmental seminar. Some more exciting spider research!
Oct 2024 – The lab hosted Dr. Daniela Rößler, who gave a 'Halloween special' talk for our departmental seminar. We were very excited to learn about spiders and their sleep habits!
Sept 2024 – Tom presented a talk at the ISBE2024 Congress in Melbourne, Australia.
Sept 2024 – Welcome to Gayatri Raina, who is starting her PhD project in the group!
July 2024 – Tom co-hosted the symposium on social evolution at the 3rd Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology in Montreal, Canada.
June 2024 – Marta Cortés Mediavilla joined the team as research assistant. Welcome Marta!
June 2024 – Tom presented a poster at the Swiss Reproducibility Conference in Zurich.
April 2024 – Kato Kikodze started her master's project in the team. Welcome Kato!
March 2024 – We were interviewed by National Geographic about our review on prey attraction strategies in spiders.
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