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Joan Strassmann
PeerJ Author & Reviewer
305 Points

Contributions by role

Author 235
Preprint Author 35
Reviewer 35

Contributions by subject area

Cell Biology
Evolutionary Studies
Ecology
Microbiology
Taxonomy
Entomology

Joan E Strassmann

PeerJ Author & Reviewer

Summary

Joan Strassmann is an evolutionary biologist with degrees from University of Michigan (BS) and University of Texas (Ph.D.) who taught at Rice University in Houston Texas for 30 years and then moved to Washington University in St. Louis. She is interested in social evolution, in cooperation, in control of conflict, and in how groups are formed and become stable, from social groups to multicellular organisms. She has worked on social wasps and stingless bees, and on social amoebae, Dictyostelium.

Evolutionary Studies Microbiology

Editing Journals

Past or current institution affiliations

Washington University in St. Louis

Work details

Charles Rebstock Professor of Biology

Washington University in St. Louis
Biology Department

Websites

  • So you want to be a biology professor
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PeerJ Contributions

  • Articles 2
  • Preprints 1
  • Reviewed 1
May 22, 2020
Endosymbiotic adaptations in three new bacterial species associated with Dictyostelium discoideum: Paraburkholderia agricolaris sp. nov., Paraburkholderia hayleyella sp. nov., and Paraburkholderia bonniea sp. nov
Debra A. Brock, Suegene Noh, Alicia N.M. Hubert, Tamara S. Haselkorn, Susanne DiSalvo, Melanie K. Suess, Alexander S. Bradley, Mahboubeh Tavakoli-Nezhad, Katherine S. Geist, David C. Queller, Joan E. Strassmann
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9151 PubMed 32509456
October 22, 2015
Migration in the social stage of Dictyostelium discoideum amoebae impacts competition
Chandra N. Jack, Neil Buttery, Boahemaa Adu-Oppong, Michael Powers, Christopher R.L. Thompson, David C. Queller, Joan E. Strassmann
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1352 PubMed 26528414
January 5, 2017 - Version: 1
Exposure to dense bacteria lawns does not cause the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum to carry bacteria through the social stage
Debra A Brock, Alicia Canas, Kai Jones, David C Queller, Joan E Strassmann
https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.2698v1

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March 24, 2015
Long live the wasp: adult longevity in captive colonies of the eusocial paper wasp Polistes canadensis (L.)
Robin J. Southon, Emily F. Bell, Peter Graystock, Seirian Sumner
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.848 PubMed 25825677