Lively lab Deanna Soper PhD Student dmsoper at indiana.edu

I am a PhD candidate in the Lively Lab whose interest focuses around the evolution of reproductive behavior. For my projects, I am utilizing Potamopyrgus antipodarum, a snail species from New Zealand. This species encounters a sterilizing trematode and I am interested in how this selective pressure influences (i) mate choice, (ii) the evolution of polyploidy, and (iii) multiple paternity resulting from polyandry.

I am also interested in the scholarship of teaching and learning. I participated in The Collegium on Inquiry in Action funded by the TEAGLE foundation. The Collegium brings together four departments from different knowledge domains, pedagogies, and instructor preparation methods to integrate efforts to develop teaching skills of graduate students in a research university context. During my participation, I created a portfolio reviewing research I conducted while instructing a lab section for a course called "Biology for Elementary Education Majors". You can view this portfolio by going to link and clicking on my name.