{"id":47,"date":"2020-08-19T15:58:02","date_gmt":"2020-08-19T19:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/trishjmoorelab\/?page_id=47"},"modified":"2020-08-19T15:58:02","modified_gmt":"2020-08-19T19:58:02","slug":"jen-moss-ph-d","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/trishjmoorelab\/jen-moss-ph-d\/","title":{"rendered":"Jen Moss, Ph.D."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery alignleft columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"946\" src=\"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/trishjmoorelab\/files\/2020\/08\/IMG_20190912_103839-1-4-1024x946.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"177\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/trishjmoorelab\/files\/2020\/08\/IMG_20190912_103839-1-4.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/trishjmoorelab\/?attachment_id=177\" class=\"wp-image-177\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/trishjmoorelab\/files\/2020\/08\/IMG_20190912_103839-1-4-1024x946.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/trishjmoorelab\/files\/2020\/08\/IMG_20190912_103839-1-4-300x277.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/trishjmoorelab\/files\/2020\/08\/IMG_20190912_103839-1-4-768x709.jpg 768w, https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/trishjmoorelab\/files\/2020\/08\/IMG_20190912_103839-1-4.jpg 1109w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-caption\">Jen posing with a juvenile <em>Liopholis whitii <\/em>during a sampling trip in southeastern Tasmania. Photo by Jen Moss.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p>The centralizing theme of my research so far has been understanding why natural populations persist across ecological and evolutionary time scales. I tend to approach this question through the lens of social behavior, asking how animals&#8217; experience of their surrounding environment shapes, and is in turn shaped by, interactions among individuals. Tackling these questions requires me to reach across disciplines. Where the mature field of behavioral ecology provides theoretical foundations for understanding <em>why<\/em> patterns of social organization have evolved, novel applications of functional genomics approaches can provide insight into <em>how <\/em>animals are able to vary their behavioral expression across environments. My research seeks to integrate these ultimate and proximate mechanisms to better understand how rapid environmental changes could reshape future evolutionary trajectories.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-top is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p>While the projects that attract me are first and foremost question-driven, the systems I have worked with most intimately in the past are lizards. During my PhD, I studied rock iguanas in the Cayman Islands, and then took up a 6-month Fellowship in Tasmania testing the effects of climate on family-living skinks. Switching it up, my current postdoc is all about insects. Under the mentorship of Allen Moore, I am developing a project examining the interplay between temperature and family dynamics in a subsocial carrion beetle (<em>Nicrophorus orbicollis<\/em>). Taking advantage of the system&#8217;s experimental tractability, I will interrogate potential behavioral, genomic, and social mechanisms of evolutionary rescue. Specifically, I will be developing and testing novel hypotheses regarding the environmental contingency of indirect genetic effects in driving rapid evolution. In addition, I am collaborating with Trish Moore and Emily Shelby to develop targets for sublethal RNAi-based pest management solutions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"252\" src=\"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/trishjmoorelab\/files\/2020\/08\/image3-copy-1-300x252.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"200\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/trishjmoorelab\/files\/2020\/08\/image3-copy-1.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/trishjmoorelab\/?attachment_id=200\" class=\"wp-image-200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/trishjmoorelab\/files\/2020\/08\/image3-copy-1-300x252.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/trishjmoorelab\/files\/2020\/08\/image3-copy-1-1024x860.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/trishjmoorelab\/files\/2020\/08\/image3-copy-1-768x645.jpg 768w, https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/trishjmoorelab\/files\/2020\/08\/image3-copy-1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-3 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"777\" height=\"557\" src=\"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/trishjmoorelab\/files\/2020\/08\/BurryingBeetleFeed1a_R2A0960.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"180\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/trishjmoorelab\/files\/2020\/08\/BurryingBeetleFeed1a_R2A0960.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/trishjmoorelab\/?attachment_id=180\" class=\"wp-image-180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/trishjmoorelab\/files\/2020\/08\/BurryingBeetleFeed1a_R2A0960.jpg 777w, https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/trishjmoorelab\/files\/2020\/08\/BurryingBeetleFeed1a_R2A0960-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/trishjmoorelab\/files\/2020\/08\/BurryingBeetleFeed1a_R2A0960-768x551.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 777px) 100vw, 777px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-caption\">Top: Jen preparing a tagged female <em>Cyclura nubila caymanensis <\/em>for release. Photo by Tanja Laaser.<br>Bottom: <em>Nicrophorus orbicollis<\/em>. Photo by Jena Johnson.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a class=\"twitter-timeline\" data-width=\"500\" data-height=\"750\" data-dnt=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/moss_etal?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">Tweets by moss_etal<\/a><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-top is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:64.6%\">\n<h2 class=\"has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\"><b>Publications<\/b><\/span> <strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\"><a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=1Cq9aJEAAAAJ&amp;hl=en\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=1Cq9aJEAAAAJ&amp;hl=en\">[Google Scholar]<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Climate change as a catalyst of social evolution. <strong>JB Moss<\/strong>, G While. <em>EcoEvoRxiv<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/ecoevorxiv.org\/ndq6r\/\">PDF<\/a><\/li><li>Conditional female strategies influence hatching success in a communally nesting iguana.<strong> JB Moss<\/strong>, GP Gerber, T Laaser, M Goetz, TV Oyog, ME Welch. <em>Ecology and Evolution<\/em> 10 (7), 3424-3438 <a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/epdf\/10.1002\/ece3.6139\">PDF<\/a><\/li><li>Evidence for dominant males but not choosy females in an insular rock iguana. <strong>JB Moss<\/strong>, GP Gerber, A Schwirian, AC Jackson, ME Welch. <em>Behavioral Ecology<\/em> 30 (1), 181-193 <a 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Correlations Reveal Inbreeding Depression in Neonatal Body Size in a Critically Endangered Rock Iguana. <strong>JB Moss<\/strong>, GP Gerber, ME Welch. <em>Journal of Heredity<\/em> 110 (7), 818-829 <a 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