Tyler is a postdoctoral fellow in the Queller/Strassmann lab. He received his PhD in Evolutionary Biology from Washington University in St. Louis in 2022, an MS in Microbiology from University of Washington in 2012, and his BS in Biology from University of Delaware.
Tyler’s research interests center on cooperation and conflict between organisms, both within and between species. He is especially interested in interactions which simultaneously involve both cooperation and conflict, and in systems which defy the traditional definitions of ‘organism’. Tyler’s past research made heavy use of experimental evolution to study cooperation and conflict in the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum, with an interest towards developing new approaches to understanding microbes in their natural habitats.
Tyler is enthusiastic about communicating science through writing, presentations, and visual art. He aspires to remain in academia, ideally in a position where he can teach and possibly even research organisms that can be seen with the naked eye. He has an especial fondness for ants and lizards, and owns many orange shirts.
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