Position
Assistant Professor, EEB and LSI

Role
Behavioral and Evolutionary Genomics

Office Phone
609-258-9467

Email
skocher@princeton.edu

Assistant
Sandy Cominski

Office
327 Moffett

Website
http://www.kocherlab.com


Selected Publications
Kocher, SD, Mallarino, RM, Rubin, BER, Yu, DW, Hoekstra, HE, and Pierce, NE. (2018) The genetic basis of a social polymorphism in halictid bees. Nature Communications.?In press.
Wittwer, BW, Hefetz, A, Simon, T, Murphy, LEK, Elgar, MA, Pierce, NE, and Kocher, SD. (2017) Solitary bees reduce investment in communication compared with their social relatives. PNAS, 114(25): 6569-6574.
Fu, F, Kocher, SD, Nowak, MA (2014). The risk-return tradeoff between solitary and eusocial reproduction. Ecology Letters, 18(1), 74-84.
Kocher, SD*, Pellissier, L*, Veller, C, Purcell, J, Nowak, M, Chapuisat, M, and Pierce, NE. (2014) Transitions in social complexity along altitudinal gradients reveal a dual impact of climate on social evolution. Proc Roy Soc B. 281 (1787): 20140627.
Kocher, SD*, Li, C*, Yang, W, Tan, H, Yi, SV, Yang, X, Hoekstra, HE, Zhang, G, Pierce,?NE, Yu, DW. (2013) The genome of a socially polymorphic halictid bee, Lasioglossum albipes. Genome Biology 14(12):R142.