Taylor-Hunter
Animal Communication Lab
Lab Alumni
Rose Hamilton
After working on various other projects at SU, Rose first accompanied the team for the 2019 field season and later graduated from SU with her BSc in Biology in 2020.
With data from 2021 and 2022, Rose's Master's thesis focused on how the visual aspect of multimodal displays can affect a female's ultimate choice in a mate. To learn more about her research, click here.
She graduated with her MSc in 2022, and is currently studying Drosophila behavior as a research tech at the Clemson University Center for Human Genetics.
Derek Coss
Entering our lab after graduating from the University of Maryland for his undergrad, Derek brought with him experience working with bird song after having been in the Omland lab and later adapted this to the túngara system.
In our lab, his research relied heavily on the use of soundscape analyses and the perception of background "noise" in female túngara frogs.
He graduated from SU with his MSc in 2020 and is currently working at Assateague Island National Seashore.
His research can be found here.
Rosalind Ludovici
Rosalind graduated from Virginia Wesleyan University in 2016 with a BSc in Biology. As an undergraduate, she completed and presented research projects in genetics and animal behavior.
While in our lab, Rosalind's research focused on the use of our robofrogs in female perception of male signals.
Her research can be found here.
Lor Dabaj
Lor moved to Delmarva from Syria in 2013. She worked in our lab for over a year and graduated with her BSc in Biology in 2019. She first joined the lab with an interest in genetics and later began collaborating with Derek Coss on his soundscape research.
She is now attending dental school at Temple University.
Megan Murphy
Megan worked as a Post-Doc in our lab. She graduated with her BS in Biology and Psychology from Rockhurst University. She received her PhD in Biology from the University of Missouri.
Her research involved the evolution of call synchrony and of novel female preferences based on relative call timing. Her work was focused on primarily Neoconocephalus katydids, but is interested in expanding this work to frogs and multimodal signals. More about her past work can be found here.
Megan is now a lecturer in the department of Biology at Indiana University.
Andrew Cronin
Andrew graduated with a BSc in Biology from Connecticut College and went on to work s an ornithology research technician at the University of Texas Austin before joining our lab. He graduated from our lab with his Master's in Applied Biology.
His research involved studying how and why female mate preference can change as well as how multimodal signals impact auditory grouping in the túngara frog. More about his past work can be found here.
Andrew is now a Ph.D student in Wouter Halfwerk's lab at Vrije University, Amsterdam.
Matt Murphy
Matt graduated from our lab in 2017.
His research involved studying how multimodal signaling affects a female frog's ability to perceive individual males during a lek mating. More about his past work can be found here.
Matt is now working on his PhD at the University of Arkansas studying visual communication in tropical butterflies.
Mark Garcia
Mark worked as a Post-Doc in our lab from 2014-2016.
His research involved studying the signal assessment of male green treefrogs (Hyla cinerea) to one another during a "duel". More about his past work can be found here.
Mark is now working on another Post-Doc at the University of Kentucky.