About the Blog Author Dr. Benjamin Karin is an evolutionary biologist and herpetologist working at UC Berkeley as an NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellow based in Dr. Ian Wang’s Lab. He studies the processes that generate biodiversity and the evolutionary forces and genetic basis of unique traits. Ben works on interesting evolutionary systems both in California […]
Category: Plasticity
EECG Embarkation: a maternal brain—investigating neuroplasticity associated with cooperative behaviors in bumble bees
**The AGA grants EECG Research Awards each year to graduate and post-doctoral researchers who are at a critical point in their research, where additional funds would allow them to conclude their research project and prepare it for publication. EECG awardees also get the opportunity to hone their science communication and write three posts over their […]