Current group:

Renée Duckworth (PI)
Matt Jenkins | grad
Haley Gee | grad
Juliana Kosters | grad
Katie Cannon | honor's 
Justin Otchis | undergrad
Kacey Rhinehart | vet student
Kaitlyn Gonzalez | undergrad
Ceci Roberts | undergrad
Sophia Carroll | undergrad
Reem Alhatri | undergrad

Alumni:

Matthew Moelling | grad
Kathryn Chenard | grad
Ahva Potticary | grad
Chris Gurguis | grad
Stepfanie Aguillon | grad
James Mouton | postdoc
Georgy Semenov | postdoc
Kelly Hallinger | postdoc
Goran Dzudza | honor's
Katie Murray | undergrad
Kaycee Schuline | undergrad
Carolina Guiterrez | undergrad
Anne-Laure Blanche | honor
Alexis Anderson | honor
Savannah Miller | REU
Taylor Bobowski | REU
Fatima Bravo | tech
Caitlin Gill| tech
Ellen Ouelette | tech
Allison Byrd | tech
Selene Fregosi | tech
Tayler LaSharr | UBRP
Anna Sevic | undergrad
Judy Quach | undergrad
Fernando Diaz | undergrad
Hannah Specht | tech

Funding:
NSF CAREER Pop & Comm Ecol, DEB-1350107

New papers:

Badyaev, AV, Lee, CA, Gleason, MJ, Semenov, GA, Britton, SE, Moreno, CS, & Duckworth, RA. In review. Cell jamming transitions shape regulatory protein gradients and prime evolutionary divergence. J. R. Soc. Interface. bioRxiv preprint

Mouton, JC, Duckworth, RA, & Martin, TE. In revision. Long-lived species allocate less yolk testosterone, but not androstenedione, to offspring in songbirds Functional Ecology

Badyaev, AV, Moreno, CS, Lee, CA, Britton, SE, Johnstone, LM, & Duckworth, RA. In review. Ultimate paths of least resistance: Intrinsically disordered links as developmental resets in regulatory protein networks. Nature Comm. bioRxiv preprint

Chenard, KC, Blanche, ALB, Kosters, J, & Duckworth, RA. In submission. Fitness consequences of social and non-social personality traits depend on context and experience Behavioral Ecology & Sociobiology

Gurguis, CI, Duckworth, RA, Bucaro, NM, Walss-Bass, C. 2024. Fitness consequences of depressive symptoms vary between generations: evidence from a large cohort of women across the 20th century. PLoS One 19: e0310598.

Moelling MH, Duckworth RA. 2024 Climate change reduces the tension of conflicting selection pressures on breeding date in a passerine bird. Proc. R. Soc. B 291: 20240959.

Duckworth, RA, Chenard, KC, Meza, L, Beiriz Silva, M. 2023. Coping styles vary with species' sociality and life history: A systematic review and meta-regression analysis. Neurosciences and Biobehavioral Reviews, 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2023.105241.

Zenil-Ferguson, R, McEntee, JP, Burleigh, JG, Duckworth, RA. 2023. Linking ecological specialization to its macroevolutionary consequences: An example with passerine nest site. Systematic Biology, syac083.

New talks:

"Individual heterogeneity in a key life history trait driven by prior breeding outcomes"American Society of Naturalists, Asilomar, CA (Jan 2025)

Symposium: "Insights on the (un)predictability of evolution"3rd Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology, Montreal, QC (July 2024)

BioMove Symposium, Potsdam, Germany (Feb 2024)

U Wyoming "EEB Seminar Series", Laramie, WY (Nov 2023)

Symposium: "Ecology of collective behavior", Animal Behaviour Society, Porland, OR (July 2023)

Symposium: "Maternal engineering: Non-genetic contributions to the offspring phenotype", ENES Morelia UNAM (Dec 2022)

University of Arizona "Genetics GIDP Seminar Series", Tucson, Arizona (November 2022)

University of Arizona "EEB Seminar Series", Tucson, Arizona (September 2022)

Workshop:  "Evolutin of Personality in Animals and Humans", Erice, Italy (Sept 2021)

University of Bern "Behavioral, Evolutionary and Theoretical Ecology Seminar Series", Bern, Switzerland (March 2021)

Editorial:

American Naturalist
Associate Editor

Service:

Vice President, Executive Council, American Society of Naturalists, 2025-2027

Consortium for Advancing a Science of Purpose, Scientific Board of Advisors, 2025-2026

Templeton Foundation, Scientific Board of Advisors, 2021-2024

Media:

- This View of Life (2021)
- National Geographic: Book talk (2018)
- Webinar: Evolution and Contextual Behavioral Science (2017)
- Nature: Research Highlights (2015)
- CBS News (2015)
- Science Podcast (2015)
- New Scientist (2013)
- BioScience (2012)
-The Scientist (2011)

Next class:

Sabbatical!
(Fall 2024-Spring 2025)

ECOL 610: Internship Presentation and Planning
(Fall 2023/Spring 2024)

Check out photos from Orn lab here!