Biology Seminar Series - Sarah Kocher, “Natural variation provides insights into the evolution of social behavior”

Date
Mon May 15th 2023, 4:00 - 5:00pm
Location
Clark Center
318 Campus Drive, Stanford, CA 94305
Clark Center Auditorium

The Department of Biology presents

“Natural variation provides insights into the evolution of social  behavior”

Sarah Kocher

Stanford

Sarah integrates methods from many different areas of biology to study social behavior and its
evolution. She was one of the first graduates of the Integrative Biology program at the University
of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign where discovered her love of behavior, genetics, and neurobiology.
She went on to study the genetic and physiological underpinnings of queen-worker interactions in
honey bees as a graduate student with Christina Grozinger and Trudy Mackay. Later, she wanted
to study a group of species that encompassed a full range of social forms and began her work on
the socially variable sweat bees as a postdoctoral fellow with Naomi Pierce and Hopi Hoekstra at
Harvard. She is now an Assistant Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at the Lewis-Sigler
Institute for Integrative Genomics at Princeton.

Host: Deborah Gordon

*In-person event only

Monday, May 15, 2023

4:00pm

Clark Auditorium