Tyler Larsen

Program: Evolution, Ecology and Population Biology

Current advisor: David Queller, PhD

Undergraduate university: University of Delaware, 2010

Enrollment year: 2014

Research summary
Experimental evolution of a symbiotic relationship between a social amoeba and its intracellular bacterial symbiont

Graduate publications
Larsen T, Jefferson C, Bartley A, Strassmann JE, Queller DC. 2021 Inference of symbiotic adaptations in nature using experimental evolution. Evolution, 75(4):945-55.

Medina JM, Shreenidhi PM, Larsen TJ, Queller DC, Strassmann JE. 2019 Cooperation and Conflict in the Social Amoeba Dictyostelium Discoideum. Int J Dev Biol, 63(8-9-10):371-82.

Garcia JR, Larsen TJ, Queller DC, Strassmann JE. 2019 Fitness costs and benefits vary for two facultative Burkholderia symbionts of the social amoeba, Dictyostelium discoideum. Ecol Evol, 9(17)::9878-90.