Mercedes Burns

Mercedes Burns

Tenure-Track

Department of Biological Sciences

College of Natural and Mathematical Sciences

She/Her/Hers/Herself

About

B.A. Biology, Macalester College (St. Paul); Ph.D. in Behavior, Ecology, Evolution, & Systematics from University of Maryland, College Park

Research interests

Evolutionary ecology of reproductive traits and behaviors, sexual conflict, reproductive polymorphism, arthropod biology

Education

  • Ph D, Behavior, Ecology, Evolution, SystematicsUniversity of Maryland, College Park (2014)
    Phylogenetic exploration of mating system evolution in the eastern North American leiobunine harvestmen
  • BA, BiologyMacalester College (2006)
    Mate choice mediated by size and chemical defense in Nyssodesmus python (Polydesmida: Platyrhacidae)