David Queller, PhD, aims to uncover how cooperative behaviors emerge and
persist despite the competitive nature of evolutionary processes. Dr. Queller
collaboratively conducts empirical studies on cooperation among social amoebas
and their bacterial symbionts, as well as the conflicts between amoebas and
their bacterial prey. He employs genomic studies to understand past adaptations
and experimental evolution to observe adaptation in real time. He was recently
elected to the National Academy of Sciences, in recognition of his
distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. Election to the
academy is considered one of the highest honors accorded a U.S. scientist or
engineer.
