Welcome to the Kay lab

Our research focuses on how the nutritional composition of resource inputs influences ecological interactions in invertebrate communities. A common theme through our projects is the importance of nutrient balance and how particular nutrient scarcities or excesses affect ecological processes.

The Biology Department at the University of St. Thomas emphasizes impact research that involves undergraduates in important roles. We value the indirect effects of research productivity on undergraduate education, but we also have close faculty-student collaborations that are the hallmark of undergraduate institutions. I am always interested in new ideas for research-teaching synergies that make life at an undergraduate school fulfilling.

Are you interested in joining the lab? Send me a message here – basicadamkay@gmail.com

Recent News

11/12/2011 – Katie Miller is at the Entomological Society meeting in Reno Nevada! She is presenting a poster on our work on diet composition and ant colony tempo.

10/5/2011 – Ashela Richardson is speaking about the Stewardship Garden tonight at the UST Sustainability Symposium! 6:30 pm on the UST campus in the 3M auditorium in Owens Science Hall.

9/30/2011 – Check out this cool news bulletin from Lanzhou University in China about the Adler et al. paper.

9/22/2011 – Check out the new paper by Peter Adler (Utah State) and others (Adler et al. ) on productivity-diversity relationships that just came out in Science. This is a publication from the Nutrient Network.

9/17/2011 – Adam is on sabbatical for the 2011-2012 academic year. He is being hosted by Nick Haddad and Rob Dunn in the Zoology Department at North Carolina State University.

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