Welcome to the abouheif Lab website

Our goal is to understand how genes and their environment interact during development and evolution to generate phenotypic diversity.


Lab Highlights

  • Back to the Future: Supersoldier ants illuminate evolution.
    >> McGill Newsroom
    >> Montreal Gazette (Jan. 6, 2012)
    >> Global National (Jan. 16, 2012)

  • Supersoldier ant research led by PhD student Rajee Rajakumar is published in January 2012 issue of Science!
    >> see Publications

  • View Dr. Abouheif's webcast
    "Bridging Islam and Evolution"

  • Congratulations!
    Our Postdoctoral Fellow, Abdou Khila has accepted a position at L'Institut Génomique Fonctionelle (CNRS), France.