Members of her lab study the molecular and hormonal mechanisms that underlie inter-individual variation in social dominance, temperament and reproductive tactics in African cichlids and the threespine stickleback. They do so using a combination of behavioural biology, endocrinology, pharmacological and environmental perturbations, as well as functional genomics approaches. Suzy Renn is an assistant professor of Biology at Reed College. She aims to determine if similar behaviours result from conserved or converged processes of evolution in African Cichlid fishes. She does so by studying the molecular basis of species- and context-specific behaviours through the synergistic combination of functional genomics, behaviour, physiology and ecology.