Seira Ashley Adams

Biography

Born and raised in Japan, I grew up running around the forests of Japan finding plants and catching animals. I moved to the United States after my first year of high school and have been here since. I went to Brown University as an undergraduate where I double majored in Biology and Visual Arts. There, I worked with Prof. Douglass Morse on the mating behavior of the parasitoids wasp Alabagrus texanus in Maine, which lead to my Animal Behaviour paper – “Condition-dependent mate choice of a parasitoid wasp in the field”.

Driven by my enthusiasm for public education and mentoring of youth, I have made use of my skills in both the arts and sciences to create and engage in various outreach opportunities throughout my life. My innate interests in biology deeply influences my artwork, and in turn, my art stimulates my creation of unique scientific outreach and education material.

Now, as part of the EvoLab working with Prof. Rosemary Gillespie, I am pursuing my research interests in chemical ecology, animal behavior, and evolutionary biology and advancing through my graduate career in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management at University of California, Berkeley.

Publications

Adams, SA & Morse, DH 2014. Condition-dependent mate choice of a parasitoid wasp in the field. Animal Behaviour 88:221-232. PDF