Emmy James

​Emmy joined the lab in 2021 as an undergraduate researcher. She is interested in exploring the ways animals modify their behavior to cope with environmental stressors, and how that may affect their evolution. For her senior thesis in E&EB, she is studying behavioral responses to temperature increase in lungless salamanders. In particular, she is focusing on how hybrid populations respond compared with their parent populations, exploring temperature-induced aggression as a possible pathway for competitive exclusion.