Summary
This action funds an NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology for FY 2025. The fellowship supports research and training of the fellow that will contribute to biology in innovative ways. This project will use the highly versatile and social bluebanded goby, Lythrypnus dalli, to elucidate how dynamic social environments alter biology and behavior. The research aims to uncover the restructuring of the brain and gonads in response to external social pressures in these fish, as well as the role hormones have in mediating these changes. Identifying the biological mechanisms behind rapid shif
