Education
PhD Biology, Arizona State University
Areas of Expertise
- Evolutionary ecology
- Movement Ecology
Honors, Awards, and Achievements
NSF award (2022-2024): Empirical and theoretical investigation of associative learning in groups
NSF award (2023-2025): Integrative approach to understanding the emergence of alternative social phenotypes through greenbeard effects in the fire ant
Templeton World Charity Foundation (2023-2025): A novel perspective on animal culture: how ant colonies accumulate complex solutions in a fluctuating environment
UGA the Willson Center grant (2023): Support for outreach program to local schools
Affiliations
Courtesy faculty, Entomology Department at UGA
Courses Taught
Animal Cognition (fall semester)
Evolutionary Ecology (spring semester)
Research Interests
Collective behavior
Collective learning
Complex systems
Selected Publications
Sasaki, T., Masuda, N., Mann, R.P. & Biro, D. (2022). Empirical test of the many-wrongs hypothesis reveals weighted averaging of individual routes in pigeon flocks. iScience, 25(10):105076
Valentini, G., Pavlic, T.P., Walker, S.I., Pratt, S.C., Biro, D. & Sasaki, T. (2021). Naïve individuals promote collective exploration in homing pigeons. eLife, 10:e68653
Pratt, S.C. & Sasaki, T. (2018). Psychology of a superorganism: collective decision-making by insect societies. Annual Review of Entomology, 63, 259-275.
Sasaki, T. & Biro, D. (2017). Cumulative culture can emerge from collective intelligence in animal groups. Nature Communications, 8, 15049.
