People
Indiana University
Undergraduate DIS Students
Kate Adaniya
Fall 2019-Present
Project Title: Assessing Consistency in Individual Aggression During Pubertal Transitions
Kate is pursuing a B.S. in Human Biology with a concentration in Human Health and Disease. This fall, Kate conducted an independent research project investigating aggressive behavior in hamsters, specifically whether individuals display consistency in aggression as juveniles and into adulthood.
Luke Gohmann
Fall 2019-Present
Project Title: Effects of seasonal cues, stress and microbiome on social behavior of non-responders”
Luke is a sophomore in Biology at IU and has been assisting in the Demas Lab since Fall 2019. More recently, Luke has been assisting Jess with her various experiments including invesetigating the role of maternal stress and gut microbiome on offspring behavior.
Florida State University
Undergraduate DIS Students
Abigail Kreuser
Fall 2016-Spring 2017
Project Title: Task partitioning or division of labor? Patterns of nest maintenance in a cooperatively breeding bird
Project Title: Growth and development of brown-headed nuthatch chicks
Michelle Martin
Fall 2016
Project Title: Quality or Quantity? Provisioning differences in the cooperatively breeding brown-headed nuthatch
Miguel De Villa
Spring 2014-Summer 2014
Project Title:The relationship between breeder and helper age and parental effort in a cooperatively breeding species, the brown-headed nuthatch
Field Technicians
Amy Janik
Spring 2017
Amy was my field technician for the spring 2017 field season. In addition to assisting me collect data for my dissertation, Amy collected her own data for her independent project investigating individual variation in adult aggression in response to a snake model. Amy is now a graduate student at Western Michigan University
Simon Fitz-William
Spring 2016
Simon was my field technician for the spring 2016 field season.
Juan Botero
Spring 2015
Juan was my field technician for the spring 2015 field season. In addition to assisting me with data collection during a particularly challenging field season, Juan conducted an independent project investigating how helpers contribute to breeders during the incubation stage of reproduction. Juan received his master's degree at the College of William and Mary.
Emma Schlatter
Spring 2014
Emma was my field technician for the spring 2014 field season.
Undergraduate Research Technicians and Volunteers
Brandy Shea
ResearchTechnician, Fall 2017-Spring 2018
Brandy assisted with our research on alloparental care and fledging behavior of brown-headed nuthatches. She graduated from Florida State University in May 2018 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Biological Science and a minor in Chemistry.
