Genevieve Kozak

Advisor: Jenny Boughman

Contact Information:
426 Birge Hall
430 Lincoln Dr
University of Wisconsin
Madison, WI 53706
phone: 608/262-4437
email: kozak@wisc.edu

Research Interests: Social Behavior and Speciation

I am interested in how social behavior contributes to the evolution of reproductive isolation and speciation. I am investigating this question in Jenny Boughman’s lab by testing how social experience influences preference for species of group members and mates between a recently evolved stickleback species pair. To determine if experience alters recognition in these species, I am looking at how experience with parents (imprinting) and experience with other juveniles alters schooling behavior and mate choice. I am also interested in how the differences in the social behavior of these two species develop and if these differences are due to differences in social experience.

Publications:
Kozak, GM.  2004.  Aggression around oviposition in P. dominulus: testing models of within-group conflict and reproductive skew.  Honors Thesis, Cornell University.

Kozak, GM and Reeve, HK.  In prep.  Aggression around oviposition in the paper wasp, P. dominulus: testing models of within-group conflict.

Previous Research Positions:
Laboratory Technician, Amy McCune, Summer 2004.

Biological Sciences Honors Research Scholar, Kern Reeve, 2004.

Undergraduate Research Assistant, Kern Reeve, 2002-2003.                                         

Hughes Research Scholar, Kern Reeve, Summer 2002.

Links

“2003-2004 Research Honors Program Abstracts (for the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Undergraduates)”  http://hdl.handle.net/1813/216

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