Dr. Kaitlin Baudier
Assistant Professor
Bio
My lab uses social insects as models to study cooperative physiological adaptations to environmental stressors. We are interested in how individual behaviors and physiologies scale to group strategies, and the adaptiveness of these strategies in different complex environments. Our lab has particular interest in how this relates to thermal macrophysiology (variation in form and function over geographic space), and group-on-group competition in highly social species.
- PHD - Drexel University (2017)
- BS - Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College (2008)
Traditional Coursework
BSC 201/L - General Zoology (Service Learning)
BSC 450 (550) - Comparative Animal Physiology
BSC 455/L (555/L) - Animal Behavior (Writing Intensive)
BSC 497 - Senior Practicum
Study Abroad Courses
BSC 404 (504) - Tropical Field Biology in Belize
Research Hours
BSC 492 (492H) - Special Problems I, II, III
BSC 691 (791) - Research
BSC 698 - Thesis
BSC 898 - Dissertation
- Novel Description of Stingless Bee (Tetragonisca angustula) Mobbing Defense Against Newly Observed Bullet Ant (Paraponera clavata) Predation, Journal of Insect Behavior, 2025
- Is disturbance stridulation in the passalid beetle Odontotaenius disjunctus a form of social communication?, Insectes Sociaux, 2024
- Stingless bee foragers experience more thermally stressful microclimates but have wider thermal tolerance breadths than other worker subcastes, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2024
- Notes on the natural history and climatic specializations of a Caribbean endemic paper wasp (Mischocyttarus phthisicus), Caribbean Naturalist, 2024
- One ant’s trash is another ant’s treasure: Army ant middens are resources for diverse ant assemblages, Biotropica, 2024
- Farmed Cricket (Acheta domesticus, Gryllus assimilis, and Gryllodes sigillatus; Orthoptera) Welfare Considerations: Recommendations for Improving Global Practice, Journal of Insects as Food and Feed, 2024
- A Mathematical Model for Flexible Collective Defense: Crisis Response in Social-Insect Colonies, Journal of Mathematical Biology, 2023
- Significant colony differences in thermal tolerance in the army ant Eciton burchellii parvispinum, Ecological Entomology, 2023, 10.1111/een.13258
- Body mass and cuticular hydrocarbon profiles, but not queen number, underlie worker desiccation resistance in a facultatively polygynous harvester ant (Pogonomyrmex californicus), Journal of Comparative Physiology B, 2023
- Soldier neural architecture is temporarily modality-specialized but poorly predicted by repertoire size in the stingless bee Tetragonisca angustula, Journal of Comparative Neurology, 2022
- International Union For the Study of Social Insects
- Animal Behavior Society
- The Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation
- Entomological Society of America
- English (Native or Bilingual)