The new book “Spider Behaviour: Flexibility & Versatility” (M. Herberstein, ed) is now available from Cambridge University Press
Vibratory communication in the jumping spider Phidippus clarus: new papers published in Ethology and Behavioral Ecology.
“There will be blood”: new paper on female competition in Phidippus clarus published in Behavioral Ecology. Interview and press (1,2,3,4,5) on publication.
New lab members starting Fall 2011. Graduate student Chrissy Rivera and Post-doctoral fellow J. Patrick Kelley (funded by a generous grant from the Hellman Foundation)!
Dirty Dancing: Click here for a NPR blog post on jumping spiders featuring the Elias Lab.
Maddie Girard has been awarded a prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship award. Congratulations!!!!
Stealth percussionists of the animal world: Click here for Scientific American news article on vibrational communication featuring the Elias Lab.
Maddie Girard has been awarded an NSF EAPSI award to work in Australia to collaborate with Dr. Rob Brooks at the University of New South Wales and Dr. Mariella Herberstein at Macquarie University!
Click here for a short video on the hidden world of spiders.
The Elias lab has been awarded a CONNECT British Council award along with the Windmill lab at University of Strathclyde!
Congratulations to long time collaborater Michael Kasumovic, who has been awarded the Young Investigator Award from the American Society of Naturalists!!!
Acoustic communication is the primary focus of the Elias lab. Here you can find our bioacoustic research projects including research on spider sounds
Numerous projects on the mechanisms of signal production, transmission, and reception are currently underway in the Elias lab.
Behavioral ecology is a primary focus of the Elias lab. Here you can find our behavioral projects focusing on mating behavior and mating system evolution
