Curriculum Vitae
Bryson Loflin — CV
Bryson Loflin
Download PDF ↓The downloadable PDF predates my PhD. The web CV below is the current one.
Current position
Carter Lab · advised by Dr. Gerry Carter
Education
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · Highest Honors
Research interests
Causes and consequences of cooperative social behavior · reciprocity and fitness interdependence · partner investment strategies · social-network analysis · behavioral ecology of vampire bats · combining controlled experiments and analysis to test behavioral theory.
Research experience
Cooperation in vampire bats: social-relations modeling, ML bat re-ID, defection experiments. Captive colonies at Princeton and in Gamboa, Panamá
Behavioral impacts of mouse rewilding; territory & anxiety-related behavior (with Dr. Matthew Zipple)
Behavioral syndrome & range expansion in Spea bombifrons; genotyping & hybridization
- Established exploratory-behavior assays still used in the lab
- Compared behavior across populations from Arizona to Kansas
Selected publications
Zipple MN, Loflin B, et al. Transfer to a naturalistic setting restructures fear responses in laboratory mice. Current Biology (2025).
Ryan S, Kelly P, Loflin B, Pfennig K. Experimentally testing the hypothesis that hybrid fitness can increase evolutionarily. Ecology and Evolution (2025).
Teaching
Seafood Forensics · UNC Biology
Investigating the Biodiversity Crisis · UNC Biology
Honors & awards
UNC Biology, for excellence in organismal biology & ecology research
UNC Chapel Hill
Outreach & service
Out in STEM (oSTEM) · undergraduate research mentoring.
Skills
R (tidyverse, Bayesian modeling with STRAND / Stan / brms, social-network analysis) · Python (computer vision, data pipelines) · experimental design for behavioral assays · captive-colony husbandry · RFID tracking · wildlife photography.