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The Baudier Lab

Ecology and Organismal Biology
School of Biological, Environmental, and Earth Sciences
University of Southern Mississippi
Welcome to the lab of Dr. Kaitlin Baudier. We are a comparative physiology and behavioral ecology lab using social insects as model systems to study social adaptations to environmental stressors. We are interested in how individual behavioral and physiological phenotypes scale to group strategies, and the adaptiveness of these strategies in different complex environments. Our lab has particular interest in ​macrophysiological patterns in the form and function of highly social species, particularly as related to the social dynamics of climate adaptation and competition. 


Recent Lab News

16 Dec 2020 - Our paper on army ant "walling", an behavioral subroutine of raids, has been published in Myrmecological news!
                          https://doi.org/10.25849/myrmecol.news_030:251
                          See also a blog interview about the article:
                          blog.myrmecologicalnews.org/2020/12/16/self-organized-walls-between-neotropical-army-ant-colonies/
15 Dec 2020 - We've been featured in a recent "True Facts" vlog about army ant raids and myrmecophiles:
                          https://youtu.be/p16g5IVCdeE 
8 Dec 2020 -  Dr. Baudier is officially joining the "BEES" Faculty at the University of Southern Mississippi starting in January 2021!
21 Sep 2020 - Check out our new paper about olfactory specialization among stingless bee guards in Behav Ecol & Sociobiol
                         https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-020-02902-4​
17 July 2020 - I was interviewed by the Washington Post about a Facebook Group Where Everyone Pretends to be Ants in a Colony:
                         https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/07/17/ants-facebook-group-pretend-colony/​
17 Feb 2020 - Lauren's undergraduate Tropical Biology Research course results have been published in Insect Soc! Congratulations!
                         https://doi.org/10.1007/s00040-020-00749-6​
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