Darragh lab opened at Indiana University Bloomington in Jan 2024!
The Darragh lab is interested in a variety of questions at the intersection between chemical ecology and evolutionary biology. We investigate how biosynthetic pathways and enzymes evolve to produce the chemical diversity that we see in nature, the genetic basis of chemical traits, and the evolutionary importance of chemical signalling in plants and insects.
We combine tools and approaches from chemical ecology, genetics, molecular biology, and evolutionary biology.
We work with a variety of both plant and insect systems, including Heliconius butterflies, bees, and Costus spiral ginger plants.
The Darragh Lab 