The Gordon Lab
Professor, Department of Biology
Senior Fellow, Woods Institute for the Environment
dmgordon at stanford dot edu
Krisa (Dajia) Ye is a postdoctoral researcher in the Gordon Lab since 2024. She studies the evolution of animal behavior, focusing on how dopamine shapes foraging decisions in red harvester ants under desiccation stress. Before joining Stanford, she earned her PhD at the University of Pennsylvania, where she investigated the genetic and neural mechanisms behind the evolution of fruit fly courtship songs. Krisa's research website
Antoine is generally interested in the evolution of social behavior. He has worked as a field assistant with teams studying social wasps, bees and rodents. He completed his PhD on the evolution of sociality in beetles. His postdoctoral project investigates how physiological processes drive behavioral plasticity in the red harvester ant, Pogonomyrmex barbatus.
Jaejun is a 3rd year biology undergraduate student from Seoul, South Korea, who came to the US with a dream of studying ants. In the Gordon Lab, he studies the competition between invasive Argentine ants and native Winter ants on campus. He is also interested in the link between neuroanatomy and task allocations in ant colonies. Outside of lab, he loves fly fishing in the Northern California wilderness.