Natural variation provides insights into the evolution of social behavior

Sarah integrates methods from many different areas of biology to study social behavior and its
evolution. She was one of the first graduates of the Integrative Biology program at the University
of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign where discovered her love of behavior, genetics, and neurobiology.
She went on to study the genetic and physiological underpinnings of queen-worker interactions in
honey bees as a graduate student with Christina Grozinger and Trudy Mackay. Later, she wanted
to study a group of species that encompassed a full range of social forms and began her work on
the socially variable sweat bees as a postdoctoral fellow with Naomi Pierce and Hopi Hoekstra at
Harvard. She is now an Assistant Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at the Lewis-Sigler
Institute for Integrative Genomics at Princeton.