Ben graduated from Swarthmore College in 2006, where he studied Biology and English. Although he was initially drawn to bird biology in Alaska, he soon realized that his true research interests lay in Developmental and Evolutionary Biology. After graduating, Ben moved to Missoula, Montana, with nine of his friends, where he worked in Doug Emlen's lab studying the development and evolutionary diversification of horned beetles. Ben joined the Extavour lab in the Fall of 2008, and hopes to help figure out how the earliest stages of egg patterning vary between arthropod species possessing different ovary types.

Ben is a graduate student in the OEB program.

Publications

The molecular machinery of germ line specification. Ewen-Campen, B., Schwager, E.E., Extavour, C. Molecular Reproduction and Development. 77(1): 3-18 (2010). [pdf]

On the origin and evolutionary diversification of beetle horns. Emlen, D. J., Corley Lavine, L. and Ewen-Campen, B. P. N. A. S. 104(1): 8661-8668 (2007)

The aerodynamics of flying carpets. Gilbert SF, Chandra A, Cohen N, Ewen-Campen B, LaSalle K, Lewis K, Mizutani M, and Wu C. In: “The Panda’s Black Box.” Ed. Comfort NC. John Hopkins University Press, 184 pages (2007).