Dr Andrew McAdam

I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Colorado. I am interested in the processes that affect the evolution of phenotypes in natural populations. Research in my lab investigates the causes of natural selection, quantitative genetics and how the social interactions (maternal effects and neighbourhood effects) affect natural selection and evolution. Much of this work is done as part of the Kluane Red Squirrel Project, but we also work in a variety of other systems.

the lab

Alex Hare, PhD student

My PhD research aims to investigate how social information influences the HPA axis and development through maternal and early-life stress effects in the North American red squirrel (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus).

Shelby Bohn, PhD Candidate

I am interested in the adjustments that animals make to their food hoarding behaviour under fluctuating resources conditions, and the information from internal (e.g. physiological, such as hormones) and external (e.g. existing hoard sizes) stimuli that they use to determine the optimum investment in food hoarding.

Katie Kariatsumari, PhD student

I am interested in the evolutionary consequences of interactions between plants and small mammals. My work explores how foraging behaviour of kangaroos rats affects size and dispersal of wild sunflower seeds.