David C. Queller

{{Short description|American evolutionary biologist}}

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David C. Queller is an evolutionary biologist at Washington University in St. Louis.{{cite web|last=Queller|first=David|title=Washington University Web page|url=http://wubio.wustl.edu/Queller|access-date=2011-11-30|archive-date=2011-07-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110724024940/http://wubio.wustl.edu/Queller|url-status=dead}} He received his BA from The University of Illinois in 1976, and his PhD from the University of Michigan in 1982.{{cite web|last=Queller|first=David|title=Faculty Handbook|url=http://nslc.wustl.edu/handbook/faculty.html|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121214031357/http://www.nslc.wustl.edu/handbook/faculty.html|archivedate=2012-12-14}} Queller became a faculty member at Rice University in 1989 and remained there until 2011 when he was named Spencer T. Olin Professor of Biology at Washington University in St. Louis.{{cite web|url=http://news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/22093.aspx|title=Trustees grant faculty promotions, tenure |work=Washington University in St. Louis|date=5 April 2011 |accessdate=18 August 2011}} Since the late 1980s, Queller has collaborated extensively with his wife and colleague Joan E. Strassmann. Empirically, Queller and Strassmann worked primarily with social insects{{cite web|title=What we have figured out about social insects?|date=22 February 2012 |url=http://strassmannandquellerlab.wordpress.com/social-insect-discoveries/}} until they made the switch to the social amoebae, Dictyostelium discoideum, in 1998.{{cite web|title=What have we figured out about social amoebas?|date=16 August 2011 |url=http://strassmannandquellerlab.wordpress.com/home/research/questions-we-have-worked-on/}}