Joining the lab

Please contact Deborah Gordon if you'd like to discuss conducting research in the lab as an undergraduate, grad student or postdoc: dmgordon@stanford.edu

Undergraduates

We welcome undergraduates in the lab. Undergraduate researchers have made important contributions to our work. These are some of our publications with undergraduate authors (in bold), including lab, field work and modeling projects:

• 2021. Chandrasekhar, A., Marshall, J. A. R., Austin C., Navlakha, S., and Gordon, D. M. Better tired than lost: Turtle ant trail networks favor coherence over short edges. PLoS Computational Biology. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009523.
• 2021. MacArthur-Waltz, D J., Nelson R. A., Lee, G.I., and D. M. Gordon. Tree preference and temporal activity patterns for a native ant community in an urbanized California woodland. J. Insect Behavior. DOI: 10.1007/s10905-021-09778-w
• 2018. Burford, B. P., Lee, G., Friedman, D. A., Brachmann, E., Khan, R., MacArthur-Waltz, D. J., McCarty, A. D., Gordon, D. M. Foraging behavior and locomotion of the invasive Argentine ant from winter aggregations. PloS ONE, 13(8), e0202117. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0202117
• 2015. Pless, E., Queirolo, J., Pinter-Wollman, N., Crow, S.P., Allen, K., Mathur, M.B., Gordon, D.M. Interactions increase forager availability and activity in harvester ants. PLoS One. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0141971
• 2013. Pinter-Wollman, N., Bala A., Merrell A., Queirolo J., Stumpe M.C., Holmes S., D. M. Gordon. Harvester ants use interactions to regulate forager activation and availability. Animal Behaviour 86(1):197-207
• 2013. Gordon, D.M., Dektar, K.N., Pinter-Wollman, N. Harvester ant colony variation in foraging activity and response to humidity. PLoS ONE 8(5): e63363. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0063363
• 2012. Prabhakar, B., Dektar, K.N., and D.M. Gordon. The regulation of ant colony foraging activity without spatial information. PLoS Computational Biology 8(8):e1002670. DOI:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002670
• 2011. Sorrells, T.R., L.Y. Kuritzky, P.G. Kauhanen, K. Fitzgerald, S.J. Sturgis, J. Chen, C.A. Dijamco, K.N. Basurto, and D.M. Gordon. Chemical defense by the native Winter Ant (Prenolepis imparis) against the invasive Argentine Ant (Linepithema humile). PLoS ONE 6(4):e18717. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0018717
• 2009. Beverly, B., H. McLendon, S. Nacu, S. Holmes, and D.M. Gordon. How site fidelity leads to individual differences in the foraging activity of harvester ants. Behavioral Ecology 20:633-638.

Summer field work

We go each summer in August to continue a long-term study of the behavior and ecology of harvester ants. First and second year students interested in joining the project should contact Prof. Gordon for information on how to apply.