Jamie is fabulous. She is a bad-ass biologist, coffee consumer, crazy crafter, grand gardener, passionate partner, possibly passable programmer, tenacious trans-woman, and vehemently valid.
Jamie’s academic interests center on sensory ecology: how animals sense the world around them. She earned her PhD in biology at Case Western Reserve University, studying neurobiology and behavior. She worked in the lab of Mark Willis, researching how American Cockroaches (Periplaneta americana) track odors. Starting with behavioral experiments, she learned that the length of P. americana antennae are important in their ability to track an odor (most insects smell with their antennae). Jamie also used neural recordings to map how odors move through the air. From there, she built a computer model to test heuristics describing how she thinks P. americana track odors.
Outside of academia, Jamie can usually be found working on crafts, or playing board games with her wife, Theresa. She enjoys woodworking, sewing, and will try just about anything artsy. Jamie and Theresa love to go camping and generally spending time outdoors. They have a cat names Joules, and he is undoubtedly cuter than your cat.
LocPort, J.K., 2018. The Nose Knows Which Way the Odor Flows: Spatial Orientation in odor-guided navigation Electronic Thesis or Dissertation. Case Western Reserve University. https://etd.OhioLink.edu (case1522781434619908)
Lockey, J.K., Willis, M.A., 2015. One antenna, two antennae, big antennae, small: total antennae length, not bilateral symmetry, predicts tracking performance in the American cockroach, Periplaneta americana L. J. Exp. Biol. 214(14). doi: 10.1242/jeb.117721
Hinterwirth, A.J., Medina, B., Lockey, J., Otten, D., Voldman, J., Lang, J.H., Hildebrand, J.G., Daniel, T.L. 2012. Wireless stimulation of antennal muscles in freely flying hawkmoths leads to flight path changes. PLOS one. 7(12): e52725. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0052725