Robin W. Warne

Biography

B.A., University of California at Santa Cruz; Ph.D., University of New Mexico; Postdoctoral Fellow and Adjunct Assistant Professor, Vassar College

Research Interest

As a vertebrate physiological ecologist, my research seeks to link dynamics within ecological communities to the physiological allocation decisions made by individuals and the ecological and evolutionary consequences of these interactions. Because my work is highly integrative I use a diversity of tools and methods that include stable isotope physiological ecology, molecular methods for gene expression, and endocrine radioimmunoassay. Current projects include the exploration of how the neuroendocrine and immune systems of frogs interact and determine their responses to (1) ecological variation in resources and (2) infection by ranavirus; an emerging disease of ecotherms. In related work I seek to understand how ecological variation in resources influence reproductive allocation and the evolution of life history trade-offs in lizards. In my research I work with a diversity of taxa that includes lizards, frogs, birds and rodents.