Disclaimer: Additional information and details about the following proposed projects, as part of the Renewal-Resubmission (for the proposed performance period of 2009-2013) will be forthcoming.

• Project 1: Caste demography and aging in honey bees
• Project 2: Ecology of lifespan
• Project 3: The mathematical demography of biodemography
• Project 4: Natural ecology of stress and aging in C. elegans (New Project)
• Project 5: Evolutionary dynamics of lifespan
• Project 6: Ecology of the lifespan of subsistence peoples (New Project)