Alison M. Bell is an American ecologist who studies animal behaviour at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.
Bell was an undergraduate student at the University of Chicago, where she studied the history and philosophy of science.
[1] She moved to the University of California, Davis for her graduate studies, where she earned a doctorate in population biology.
[7] Bell studied the gene expression of male sticklebacks before and after becoming fathers, at three points of the hatching process.
[7] She found an overlap between the genes associated with parental care in stickleback fathers and those of maternal mice.