Bio

Dr. Duffy’s research is focused on animal behavior, evolution, and chemical ecology. Her work is highly integrative, combining field and lab-based behavioral experiments, analytical chemistry, comparative morphology, and genetics. In addition, Dr. Duffy is the Head of the Specimen Processing Lab for the Environmental Epigenetics and Epidemiology research group within the Center for Human Health and the Environment (CHHE) and supports several multi-institutional human health cohort studies, including the STRIVE, NEST, and SHIP cohorts.

Publications

• Behavior evolves as a correlated response to selection on cuticle color in Drosophila melanogaster and D. simulans , bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (2026)
• Does predation environment affect repeated responses to predation cues in the fish Brachyrhaphis rhabdophora? , Behavioural Processes (2025)
• Effects of lead in drinking water on a liver disease , North Carolina State University. Undergraduate Research & Creativity Symposium (2025)
• Mate choice copying behaviour in the livebearing fish Brachyrhaphis rhabdophora , Animal Behaviour (2025)
• Public Health Concerns at the Intersection of Drinking Water Contamination and Low Healthcare Access in Maine , Maine Policy Review (2025)
• Same data, different analysts: variation in effect sizes due to analytical decisions in ecology and evolutionary biology , BMC Biology (2025)
• Soil Metallomics and association with hepatocellular carcinoma , North Carolina State University. Undergraduate Research & Creativity Symposium (2025)
• Spectral variation in United States headlight beetles (Coleoptera: Elateridae: Pyrophorini) , North Carolina Entomological Society (2025)
• Behavioral response to chemical cues from injured conspecifics in the livebearing fish, Brachyrhaphis rhabdophora , Ethology (2024)
• Repeated feeding guild evolution: the impact of competition on diversification , Evolutionary Journal of the Linnean Society (2024)