Justa L. Heinen-Kay

I am an evolutionary ecologist interested in how biodiversity is generated and maintained through the interplay of natural and sexual selection. My research seeks to understand how ecological variation — especially in natural enemies, such as predators and parasites — influences the evolution of mating systems and sexually selected traits. Currently, I am a postdoctoral researcher in Marlene Zuk’s lab at the University of Minnesota. I completed my PhD 2016 in Brian Langerhans’ lab at North Carolina State University.