From her website: I was born in San José, Costa Rica where I obtained a B.S. and M.Sc. in Biology, focusing on host choice and handling behavior in parasitoid wasps. I then relocated to the US to complete my doctoral studies on the evolution of animal societies and social behavior at the University of Miami. For my doctoral research, I explored grouping behavior and reproduction, social interactions, and brain plasticity in primitively eusocial wasps native to Florida. 

 After completing my PhD, I took a position as a Lecturer in the Department of Biology at UM, then a Research Associate position at the Sheehan Lab at Cornell University. Most recently, I started a position at the University of Rochester as a Research Assistant Professor and Assistant Professor of Instruction. My team of students continue to work on local and international projects exploring social evolution in insects.

Floria is co-PI of the TropBioLab, and co-adivices/mentors students with Al Uy 

From his website: Daven received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Biology from the University of Maryland at College Park with Jerry Wilkinson and his Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Rochester with Allen Orr. He was an Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Munich with Wolfgang Stephan and an NIH-NRSA Postdoctoral Fellow at Cornell University with Andy Clark. Daven is now University Dean’s Professor at the University of Rochester. The Presgraves Lab, established in 2005, works on evolutionary genetics and genomics using Drosophila species as models with funding from the NIH, NSF, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the David & Lucile Packard Foundation species.

Daven and Al are collaborating on an NSF-funded project exploring the role of sex chromosomes in speciation in birds of the Solomon Islands.

From his website: Dr. Borgia is interested in sexual selection and mate choice and uses bowerbirds as a model system for his studies. Mate choice is a fundamental, but still poorly understood, evolutionary process that is the focus of much debate in evolutionary and behavioral biology. Naturalists, including Darwin, have long been captivated by the unique courtship behaviors of bowerbirds that include construction of a bower, colorful bower decorations, and highly integrated and complex vocal and dancing displays. 

Gerry and Al are working on a project exploring the genomic consequences of extreme polygyny in bowerbirds.=