The Cressler Lab
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Infection by the bacterium Pasteuria ramosa accelerates growth and stops reproduction in Daphnia magna (right)
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About the lab
Broadly, we are interested in the interactions between individual-level and population-level processes, and how those interactions shape ecological and evolutionary dynamics. A major current emphasis in the lab is on understanding resource-mediated feedbacks between within-host and between-host processes in disease systems. We are also interested in understanding how organism's life history and behavior is shaped by the interaction between individual resource acquisition and allocation and population-level processes like consumer-resource and predator-prey dynamics. We use an array of approaches for this work, including life history and population experiments, development of theory, phylogenetic comparative analysis, and multi-omics.
