Brady, Sean G.
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Seán Brady, Curator of Hymenoptera (Ants & Bees)
Phone: 301-238-1078 Fax: 202-786-2894 E-mail Address: bradys@si.edu Mailing Address: Smithsonian Institution Laboratories of Analytical Biology Museum Support Center 4210 Silver Hill Road Suitland, MD 20746 Shipping Address: (same as above) Education: Ph.D. University of California, Davis Research Interests:
Phylogenetics, molecular evolution, and systematics of ants and bees Social insect evolution and ecology Coevolutionary dynamics, especially in fungus-growing ants Phylogenetic and molecular evolutionary theory and methodology My research concentrates on increasing our understanding of the origins, diversification, and molecular evolution of social insects, especially ants and bees. I am particularly interested in applying comparative approaches that incorporate evidence from systematics, ecology, genetics, and genomics in order to address specific questions in ant and bee evolution.
PUBLICATIONS
- Brady, S.G., Fisher, B.L., Schultz, T.R., Ward, P.S. 2014. The rise of army ants and their relatives: diversification of specialized predatory doryline ants. BMC Evolutionary Biology 2014 14:93, 14 pp. (doi:10.1186/1471-2148-14-93)