{"id":16683,"date":"2023-09-07T19:08:37","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T23:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.birds.cornell.edu\/home\/?post_type=staff&#038;p=16683"},"modified":"2024-01-04T11:24:38","modified_gmt":"2024-01-04T16:24:38","slug":"shailee-shah","status":"publish","type":"staff","link":"https:\/\/www.birds.cornell.edu\/home\/staff\/shailee-shah\/","title":{"rendered":"Shailee Shah"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I study the evolution of social behavior and how social behavior, in turn, affects evolution in birds. My work focuses on Superb Starlings, a species common across East Africa. I combine behavioral ecology and population genomics methods to understand the role of sociality in the natural world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I got my start in science right here at the Cornell Lab as an undergraduate (class of 2014). After graduating, I received my Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolution from Columbia University, where I started working on a long-term Superb Starling study based at Mpala Research Center in Kenya, started by my advisor, Dr. Dustin Rubenstein. From there I completed a postdoc at the University of Rochester under the guidance of Dr. Nancy Chen. There, I worked on the population genetics of the Florida Scrub-Jay, with data from another long-term study based at the Archbold Biological Station in Florida.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am excited to be back at the Cornell Lab, with support from the NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship in Biology. I plan to continue exploring my interest in social evolution and expand my training in genomics as part of the Fuller Evolutionary Biology Program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Education<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Ph.D., Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Columbia University<br>B.A., Biology, Cornell University<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Outside the Cornell Lab<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I read a lot of books; in another life (or maybe later in life) I would love to own a bookstore. Currently, I am an avid patron of Odyssey Bookstore and the Tompkins County Public Library!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":16684,"parent":0,"template":"single-staff.php","program":[157,37,80],"project":[],"class_list":["post-16683","staff","type-staff","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","program-biodiversity","program-postdoctoral-fellows","program-researchers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birds.cornell.edu\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/staff\/16683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birds.cornell.edu\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/staff"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birds.cornell.edu\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/staff"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birds.cornell.edu\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birds.cornell.edu\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"program","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birds.cornell.edu\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/program?post=16683"},{"taxonomy":"project","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birds.cornell.edu\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project?post=16683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}