Johnson Lab
Trinity University
Lizard behavioral evolution
Johnson Lab
Trinity University
Lizard behavioral evolution
Welcome to the Johnson Lab!
Michele A. Johnson, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Trinity University
Department of Biology
One Trinity Place
San Antonio, TX 78212
Office: 216 Cowles Life Science
Phone: 210-999-8918
Email: michele.johnson [at] trinity.edu
How does behavior evolve? We're generally interested in the ecological factors that influence social behaviors and the physiological mechanisms that underlie those behaviors. Most of our work uses lizards in the genus Anolis, or anoles, but we're also beginning to explore the diversity of lizards that occur at our local field sites in south-central Texas. We use field observations, laboratory experiments, molecular genetics, neuroendocrine techniques, and comparative methodology to explore behavioral evolution.
Lab News - we've been busy!!
July 2011 - Michele Johnson, Diego Castro, and Ellee Cook traveled to the Dominican Republic to study Anolis lizards in the Barahona region, working with collaborators Thom Sanger and Natalie Jacewicz of Harvard University. Watch for exciting presentations and papers to come from this work...
May 2011 - After she graduated, Alisa Dill has re-joined the Johnson and Brodl labs as our research technician. Welcome back, Alisa!
May 2011 - Diego Castro received a grant from the Explorer's Club for his research on muscle physiology of lizards from the Dominican Republic. Yay, Diego!
May 2011 - Mary Camp was awarded the 2010-2011 Neuroscience Major Award. Congrats, Mary!
April 2011 - Patrick Shin and Divina Varghese were awarded fellowships from Trinity's Integrated Research in Biomathematics program to study lizard metabolism this summer. Ellee Cook and Diego Castro received summer fellowships from Trinity's HHMI research program. It's going to be a busy summer...
Updated August 2011
Anolis evermanni, Puerto Rico
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Summer lab group, July 2011
Mary's poster at SFN-San Antonio, October 2010
