Emily Behrman

|Assistant Professor
Academic Appointments
  • Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences

  • Molecular and Cellular Biology Graduate Program

  • Ecology, Evolution, Environment and Society Graduate Program

  • Integrative Neuroscience at Dartmouth Graduate Program

Diverse behaviors have evolved that control how an animal interacts with its environment and other organisms. My lab uses the fruit fly Drosophila to study fundamental questions of how behavior evolves at the level of genes and neurons, which we complement with field ecology to understand how behavior affects evolution in natural populations. Our research program spans different evolutionary timescales—from rapid evolution across seasons to differences among species—to understand the constraints and flexibility of the genetic and neural mechanisms underlying behavioral evolution.  

Contact

HB 6044

Department(s)

Biological Sciences

Education

  • PhD, University of Pennsylvania
  • BA, Williams College