Marina is an evolutionary behavioral ecologist who utilizes a social information framework to understand behavioral variation in populations. She conducted her doctoral research at Rice University in the Saltz Lab, where she used fruit flies to investigate the effects of social information use and production on behavioral patterns in an aggressive context. As a Stengl-Wyer Scholar, Marina will work with Dr. Molly Cummings and Dr. Carlos Botero to characterize the ecological drivers of social information reliance, and investigate the impact of social information on sexual selection dynamics in sailfin mollies.