Oliver Beckers

Research interests (key words)

• Phenotypic plasticity

• Evolution

• Animal behavior and communication

Primary study animals

• Crickets (Gryllus rubens)

• Katydids (Neoconocephalus triops)

• Parasitoid Tachinid flies (Ormia lineifrons/O. ochracea)

Education and Professional Experience

• Assistant Professor: Department of Biological Sciences, Murray State University, KY, July 2014-present.

• Post-doctoral Research Associate and NIH-post doctoral fellow at Indiana University, Bloomington, IN

• Post-doctoral Research Associate at University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE

• Ph.D. in Biological Sciences (Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior) at University of Missouri, Columbia, MO

• M. S. in Biology (Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior) at Friedrich-Alexander University-Erlangen

Courses taught at Murray State:

• BIO101 Biological Concepts

• BIO216 Biological Inquiry and Analysis

• BIO221 Zoolology: Animal Form and Function

• BIO330 Principles of Ecology

• BIO526/626 Phenotypic Plasticity in Biological Systems

• BIO538/539/638/639: Animal Behavior