My research interests range from speciation to sexual selection to the developmental genetics of phenotypic evolution.  The lab has a diverse set of projects underway:

•Genetics of coordinately evolving male wing spots and courtship behavior in Drosophila elegans and D. gunungcola (see Erin Hill-Burns’s page)

•Molecular genetic basis of naturally occurring melanism in D. elegans

•Evolution of epistatic gene networks (see Joe Lachance’s page)

•Evolutionary implications of pleiotropy of pigmentation genes with other traits (see Rocio Ng’s page)

•The role of the D. melanogaster dopamine pathway in nutrient sensing and the evolution of life-history traits (in collaboration with Walter Eanes)

• Behavioral ecology of D. elegans on flowers in Taiwan

•  Developmental genetics and evolution of insect pigmentation

•    Population genetics and evolutionary history of new world D. melanogaster (in collaboration with Roman Yukilevich)