• Thermal biology of fruit flies: body size, cell size & thermal performance
• Thermal biology of isopods: body size, cell size & thermal performance
• Evolutionary ecology of ambush-hunting in antlions
• Evolutionary ecology of reproductive strategy in bean beetles
• Evolutionary ecology of symbiotic relationships in palms and ants

• Life history evolution in freshwater mussels (unionids, zebra mussels, Corbicula species complex). 

• Evolutionary ecology of complex behaviours in ants