Speciation Game
Lab members Megan Frayer and Bret created an educational card game to teach students about speciation. In the Speciation game, players compete to form new species by evolving diverse barriers to reproduction. This collaborative effort with Kaitlin Edwards, Christina Swords, Anika Gupta, Millie Rolander, and Travis Tangen at the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation and Kevin Niemi at WISCIENCE was funded by the National Science Foundation. Check out this article for more about the development and purpose of the Speciation game.
Darwin Day
Service
We believe in service. Members of the lab serve on committees in our department and in the J. F. Crow Institute for the Study of Evolution. Bret serves on committees at the departmental, college, and university levels. Bret was a founding member and later chair of the Population, Evolutionary, and Quantitative Genetics (PEQG) Conference sponsored by the Genetics Society of America. He is currently associate editor at PLoS Genetics.