 The team's current work involves large-scale, long-term projects, running over several years, modelling and micro-satellite based work to investigate gene-relatedness, and assign offspring to parents.The organisms which his team works on most are wasp and bee species Halictus, the hover wasp, and Polistes, the paper wasp.Some papers have been published as a result of these studies, in "Nature" and "Behavioral Ecology".