Tyler Andres-Bray

Assistant Professor of Teaching

tandresbray@eeb.ucla.edu

4106 Life Sciences Building
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Recent Courses

LS7B - Genetics, Evolution, and Ecology

Research Areas

Behavior, Ecology

Research Interests

As an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and the Department of Life Sciences Core Education, I am interested in how undergraduate STEM students develop a science identity. Particularly, I am interested in how classrooms, curricula, and departments can foster this identity development in our students by using evidence-based and inclusive teaching practices and how developing a science identity can help students persist in STEM.

Selected Publications

Andres-Bray, T. C., Nichols, I., Wilke, T, Hafner, M., Jordan, A., Eysseric, A., Borzym, V., Abwe, E. E., Morgan, B., & Gonder, M. K. (2025). Cultural patterns of technical variation in chimpanzee termite fishing behavior in Mbam & Djerem National Park, Cameroon. American Journal of Primatology, 87(3): e70014.

Andres-Bray, T. C., Smith, J., Nichols, I., Abwe, E. E., & Gonder, M. K. (2024). Ecological Correlates of Chimpanzee Termite Fishing Behavior in Mbam & Djerem National Park, Cameroon, Ecology & Evolution, 14(7): e70080.

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