Norman Lee

Featured on the cover! #Ormiaochracea

Reproductive anatomy and embryogenesis of a viviparous, phonotactic, parasitoid fly Abstract. Ormia ochracea (Bigot 1889) is a phonotactic parasitoid fly that targets a variety of field cricket species as hosts for their developing young.

2️⃣ Led by Parker Henderson, on a detailed look at reproductive anatomy and embryogenesis in #Ormiaochracea

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Resource competition affects developmental outcomes of the acoustic parasitoid fly Ormia ochracea Abstract. In parasitoid systems, resource competition can significantly impact developmental outcomes. This study investigates how larval competition and h

1️⃣ Co-led by former Postbac Jimena Dominguez @jimenadominguez.bsky.social & Brendan Latham, on how larval resource competition shapes development outcomes

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🎉 Two new papers from the Lee Lab on #Ormiaochracea development now published in Annals of the Entomological Society of America!

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Lauren is also looking for PhD opportunities in #neuroethology

Lauren Bitner giving a “dynamite” talk on how Ormia ochracea hearing sensitivity varies with their reproductive status.

Lee Lab Postbac Lauren Bitner @laurenbitner.bsky.social gave a “dynamite talk” (as recognized by Marlene Zuk)! In her latest work, she discovered that auditory sensitivity in the acoustic parasitoid fly #Ormiaochracea is modulated by their reproductive status. Gravid flies hear better!

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Assistant Professor of Neuroscience The Department of Biology and the Neuroscience Program at St. Olaf College invite applications for a full-time, tenure track position in Neuroscience at the Assistant Professor level to begin August 2...

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At #ABS2025? So am I! Feel free to stop me if you're curious about the job opening at St. Olaf.

St. Olaf Tenure Track Search for a Neuroendocrinologist

🚨We're hiring!🚨 St. Olaf is launching a new Neuroscience Major and seeks a tenure-track neuroendocrinologist to help shape its future 🧠✨ Passionate about inclusive teaching, research, and mentoring at a SLAC? Join us! #NeuroJobs @animbehsociety.bsky.social @neuroethology.org ‪@sbn-bsky.bsky.social‬

Jeyssi stands smiling in a black puffy jacket and light grey field pants framed by a rock wall to the left and a forest in the background.

In a forest at night, Jeyssi stands squeezing her eyes shut as a frog lands on the band of her headlamp.

Congratulations to Jeyssi, one of our 2025 Turner Awardees! Jeyssi is a third-year undergraduate at Gettysburg College studying how eavesdropping predators and parasites influence the evolution of mating signals in the Trillo lab. She is interested in understanding how... (1/2)

Marie Taylor stands smiling in a black dress with pink flowers.

Congratulations to Marie Taylor, one of our 2025 Turner Awardees!
Marie Taylor is a third-year undergraduate at Utah Valley University studying individual variation of bottlenose dolphin shipside feeding in the Cusick lab. She is working towards becoming a wildlife biologist. ... (1/2)

Leila stands smiling in front of a white wall, wearing a dark-blue patterned collared shirt.

Congratulations to Leila, one of our 2025 Turner Awardees!
Leila is a third-year undergraduate at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee studying sexual communication and speciation in treehoppers in Rafael Rodríguez's Behavior and Evolution lab. She is interested in using similarities between ... (1/2)

Wearing a head lamp in a dark forest, Cristian smiles at a thin, light brown snake in his hands.

Congratulations to Cristian, one of the ABS 2025 Turner Awardees!
Cristian is an early-year undergraduate at Gettysburg College studying bioacoustics and calling behavior in tropical tree frogs. (1/2)

Madi Evans gestures peace signs in front of large models of brown bats and green foliage.

Congratulations to Madi Evans, one of the ABS 2025 Turner Awardees!
Madi Evans is a third-year undergraduate at Fort Lewis College studying social behavior in a variety of animals in Andrew Fulmer's Social Ethology lab. (1/2)

Kaya Simmons touches the brim of her green-grey baseball cap in front of a landscape of rocks and trees.

Congratulations to Kaya Simmons, one of the ABS 2025 Turner Awardees!
Kaya Simmons is a fourth-year undergraduate at Florida State University studying investigative cooperative courtship behavior in the DuVal lab and neural communication and reproduction in the Lemmon lab. (1/3)

Yuchen Chen stands in a blue shirt, smiling on a beach at sunset.

Congratulations to Yuchen Chen, one of the ABS 2025 Turner Awardees!
Yuchen Chen is an early-year undergraduate at Duke University studying anti-predator responses, sexual selection, communication, and social networks. She is interested in different types of animal relationships and... (1/2)

Juliana Fonseca-Tellez stands, smiling, in a blue dress on a balcony next to a large bouquet of pink-and-white flowers.

Congratulations to Juliana Fonseca-Tellez, one of the ABS 2025 Turner Awardees!
Juliana is a Master's student at
Universidad del Rosario studying how behavior influences major evolutionary processes, such as speciation, in Adriana Maldonado-Chaparro's Behavioral Ecology and Conservation Lab. (1/3)

Henry Rosato stands in a blue shirt in front of a white board, giving a presentation.

Congratulations to Henry Rosato, one of the ABS 2025 Turner Awardees!
Henry Rosato is a third-year undergraduate at University of Minnesota studying the evolution of mate-search strategies using agent-based models as well as morphological diversification in crickets in the Xu lab. (1/3)

Wearing a head lamp and coveralls in the dark, Tiana smiles at the camera, holding up a frog.

Congratulations to Tiana, one of the ABS 2025 Turner Awardees!
Tiana is an third-year undergraduate at Gettysburg college interested in research integrating ecological context into evolutionary theory. (1/2)

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Kennedy smiles in front of an aquarium full of fish and rays.

Congratulations to Kennedy, one of the ABS 2025 Turner Awardees!
Kennedy is a fourth-year undergraduate at Howard University studying virology, eco-toxicology, and evolutionary biology. She is interested in using behavior and genetics to study the evolution of eusociality. (1/2)

Neuroanatomy of blood-feeding arthropods Hematophagy has evolved independently numerous times across a variety of arthropods. Many of these blood-sucking animals, like kissing bugs or mosquit…

My grad student, Jessica Hearn wrote a mini-review on Neuroanatomy of Blood-Feeding Arthropods! It's mostly an area of open questions!

Special thanks to this year's organizer of the Neuroethology GRC, Julie Simpson & @genmig.bsky.social. We had a fantastic week of great science, met colleagues or started collaborations. We are looking forward to the next GRC in 2 years.

2027 Co-Vice chairs: Jessica Fox & @scottjuntti.bsky.social

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Neural and behavioral evolution in an eavesdropper with a rapidly evolving host The diversification of animal communication systems is driven by the interacting effects of signalers, signal receivers, and the environment. Yet, the…

Flies from the genus Ormia parasite crickets which they localize by eavesdropping. Cricket songs have therefore rapidly diversed, in Hawaii . A new study @currentbiology.bsky.social gives insights into the rapid evolution in sensory tuning of an eavesdropper.
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This scientific discovery is a story of resilience in nature and among a group of cool scientists (@EDaleBroder @arpeggio_jay @jimmyadominguez @quangvuneuro.bsky.social and others)! Thank you @NSF for supporting this work! #NSFfunded

We show that compared to Floridian #Ormiaochracea, Hawaiian flies have evolved more sensitive hearing - allowing for better detection of evolving cricket songs!

Our latest work from an awesome collab between the Lee Lab @St.Olaf and @robinmting.bsky.social’s group @DU - now published in @currentbiology.bsky.social ! www.cell.com/current-biol...

This is a great write up on a really cool study and I was happy to be able to chime in with some thoughts. It's really a shame that the great science in the article is overshadowed by the attacks on federal science funding in the US. We risk losing so many people and so much knowledge.

ditto!