Contact Information
505 S. Goodwin Ave
Urbana, IL 61801
Research Interests
Proximate causes and ultimate consequences of individual differences in behavior
Education
BA University of Chicago
PhD University of California, Davis
Postdoc, University of Glasgow
Postdoc, University of California, Davis
Awards and Honors
Richard and Margaret Romano Professorial Scholar
Fellow, Animal Behavior Society
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Quest Award, Animal Behavior Society
New Investigator Award, Animal Behavior Society
Additional Campus Affiliations
Interim Associate Dean for Research, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Lowell Getz Scholar, Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior
Professor, Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior
Professor, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
Affiliate, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
External Links
Recent Publications
Maciejewski, M. F., & Bell, A. M. (2026). An evolutionary shift to prioritizing mating over care is associated with consistently high androgen levels in male threespine stickleback. Hormones and Behavior, 177, Article 105866. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yhbeh.2025.105866
Behrens, C., Young, S., Arredondo, E., Dalziel, A. C., Weir, L. K., & Bell, A. M. (2025). The Evolutionary Loss of Paternal Care Is Associated With Shifts in Female Life-History Traits. Ecology and Evolution, 15(4), Article e70497. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.70497
Bell, S. E., Xie, Y. R., Maciejewski, M. F., Rubakhin, S. S., Romanova, E. V., Bell, A. M., & Sweedler, J. V. (2025). Single-Cell Peptide Profiling to Distinguish Stickleback Ecotypes with Divergent Breeding Behavior. Journal of Proteome Research, 24(4), 1596-1605. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jproteome.4c00832
MacIejewski, M. F., Fischer, E. K., & Bell, A. M. (2025). An Evolutionary Loss of Parental Care in Stickleback Is Associated with Differences in the Activity, but Not the Number, of Neuropeptidergic Neurons in the Preoptic Area. Brain, behavior and evolution, 100(3), 171-182. https://doi.org/10.1159/000545350
Neumann, K. M., Eckert, L., Miranda, D., Kemp, A., & Bell, A. M. (2025). Collective behavior diverges independently of the benthic-limnetic axis in stickleback. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 79(5), Article 56. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-025-03599-z