I am a PhD student at the University of Arizona's Ecology and Evolutionary Biology department. As a member of the Social Insect lab, I am interested in understanding how the nervous system of a worker ant shapes what task it performs in the colony. For my dissertation I am studying the ways in which the two branches of the nervous system, the peripheral and central, can differ among individual ants to give rise to unique worker behavior and division of labor at the colony level.
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