Our research has shown that evolutionary innovations are not always lost forever. In a landmark discovery, we found that ants retained the hidden ability to produce a long-lost "supersoldier" caste, even after millions of years of evolutionary change. This work revealed that dormant developmental potential can persist through time, providing new insight into how evolution generates biological diversity and innovation.

We bring the superorganism to biomedical research to address some of societies most pressing medical challenges, including cancer, fetal health, and lifespan in humans. A superorganism is equivalent to multicellular organism, where the male and queen is equivalent to the egg and sperm (germline), and workers are like the body. We use the molecules that evolved to regulate superorganisms and apply them to medicial challenges.

Biology, in its current state, is data-rich and theory poor. We are helping to build a conceptual foundation for the new field of eco-evo-devo medecine. Building on theories at the cross sections of evolutionary biology, developmental biology, and ecology, we produce testable predicitons that will keep us busy for many years to come.