Jennifer Hellmann

I'm recruiting for a fully-funded masters or PhD student to work in my lab at @EEOB_OSU starting August 2024! The specific project is up to the student, but should broadly focus on the role of plasticity in helping organisms cope with environmental change.

#ISBE2022 wouldn’t be complete without seeing wild #sticklebacks in Sweden!

Excited about our new paper in Proc B today showing that ecological information can be transmitted horizontally between neighboring territorial males, and then passed vertically to offspring. (1/3) royalsocietypublishing.org/d… @UDaytonCAS @AlisonB99479824

We’ve kicked this summer off with #darter collecting! Lauren Roy ‘23 (funded by @univofdayton and @ud_hsi) is studying the various species of darters around the Dayton area to better understand how their populations are affected by changes in water quality!

Celebrating the end of the semester and @marinemyelement finishing collecting data on her first PhD experiment!

Excited to celebrate all the cool research being done in the lab this year at the @univofdayton #StanderSymposium today!

As part of their independent project, Will Ogburn (‘23) and Lauren Roy (‘23) observed this #stickleback #father retrieve two free-swimming fry that wandered off and spit them back into his nest @univofdayton @UDaytonCAS

Recent write-up of our new paper showing the ways in which fathers influence offspring via combined effects of sperm and paternal care igb.illinois.edu/article/can…

The breeding season is nearing its end, but that does not mean the spawning has stopped! Look closely in this dad’s nest to see nearly 80 babies! #stickleback #paternalcare @univofdayton

Excited to share our newest paper! Paternal exposure to predation risk has similar effects on offspring regardless of whether the effects are mediated via sperm alone, or a combination of sperm and paternal care! @AlisonB99479824 @erika_carlson authors.elsevier.com/a/1dZR%…