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Jennifer Hellmann

Jennifer Hellmann

Jennifer Hellmann

Assistant Professor

hellmann.13@osu.edu

Areas of Expertise

  • behavioral ecology
  • phenotypic plasticity
  • aquatic ecology

I am an integrative biologist who uses fish as a model system to understand how plasticity, both within and across generations, drives phenotypic change in response to variation in the ecological and social environment. My current work focuses on transgenerational plasticity – when offspring phenotypes are altered by parental environments – and the ways in which parental experiences can prepare offspring for coping with both natural and human-induced environmental change. To do this, I work at the intersection of behavior, evolution, and ecology using field and laboratory experiments, molecular tools, and physiological manipulations.