Lucas Nell

Lucas studies how populations and communities are shaped by interacting ecological and evolutionary dynamics that play out across space. Given the conceptual breadth of questions that interest him, Lucas uses a range of approaches (e.g., theory, experiments, population genomics) and systems (e.g., insect host–parasitoid, microbial competitors) to address them. Lucas’s current work focuses on how patterns of dispersal can change outcomes of between-species interactions. He is using mathematical modeling of a symbiosis between Pseudomonas bacteria and pea plants to understand how dispersal, insect communities, and connectivity among fields affect this relationship across scales, from plants to landscapes.

Title: CIHMID Postdoctoral Fellow

Department: Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

Roles: CIHMID Postdoc

Research Areas: Agriculture Research, Animal Hosts, Disease Ecology and Evolution, Microbiota and Microbiomes, Plant Hosts

Website: https://www.lucasnell.com/

Lab: https://blogs.cornell.edu/greischarlab/

Email: lan68@cornell.edu