EDUCATION:

• Ph.D. in Entomology, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL

RESEARCH INTEREST:

• Our laboratory studies neural, endocrine, genetic mechanisms of socially relevant behavior from an evolutionary perspective.  Our main study organism is one of the pinacles of social evolution, the Western honey bee.  Both mechanistic and evolutionary studies in the lab benefit from a comparative approach across bee (and wasp) species, subspecies, and castes subject to different ecological and evolutionary pressures.

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