After a few tries, we finally landed a grant from the US NSF-EAGER program to study aspects of our arms-race model of defenses in leaf beetles! While most arms-race evolutionary models have focused on plant-insect herbivore interactions, Co-PIs Dr. Ken Keefover-Ring, U. Wisconsin-Madison, WI and Dr. Paula “Alex” Trillo, Gettysburg College, PA, will use this 2-yr award…