The Rummel Lab is interested broadly in locomotor physiology and biomechanics, and the effect of temperature and other environmental conditions on animal movement. 

Lab news

Rummel Lab fieldwork in Belize, and the work of many cool colleagues, is featured in the Nature of Things. 
New publication out now in iScience, examining regional heterothermy in flying bats:

 https://www.cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S2589-0042(25)01912-1
Rice News features Alexandria's work on Mexican free-tailed bats in Houston!
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https://news.rice.edu/news/2025/listening-night-rice-graduate-researcher-studies-houstons-bats-unlock-secrets-health-and
New publication from Alexandria looking at wing fur on bats in diverse species:
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https://nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nyas.15411