My research asks: How do animals respond to change? In more scientific terms, research in my lab focuses on the evolution and ecology of phenotypic plasticity - when traits change as a function of the environment. When is plasticity adaptive, how does it evolve in different environments, and does it allow populations to track or adapt to changing conditions? I employ theoretical and empirical approaches to explore these questions, and mostly focus on vertebrate study organisms. My main research foci are temperature-dependent sex determination, parental effects, thermal biology, and sex allocation in mammals.

Topics of interest include:

• Evolution and adaptation of plasticity
• Effects of incubation temperature on reptile sex determination and hatchling phenotypes
• The evolution of sex-determining mechanisms
• Reproductive ecology
• Parental care
• Parental effects
• Investment in sons vs. daughters in mammals
• Physiological correlates of life-history trade-offs
• Thermal Ecology
• Alterations in behaviour and reproduction under parasitic infection
• Ecoimmunology and endocrinology