We Are an Enthusiastic, Insect-Loving Team

Primary Investigator

I believe that the best way to understand collective behavior is through a holistic approach, both in the lab and how we teach and communicate the science we do.

Hobbies

Cooking, weight lifting, gardening

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Laboratory Manager, Senior Research Technician

Wisconsin Beekeeper Extraordinaire

Hobbies

Bees, beekeeping

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Post Doctoral Fellow, NSF

Megha is interested in the molecular mechanisms that elicit social and thermal responses in honey bees.

Hobbies

Photography, cooking and baking

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PhD Candidate - USDA SARE Grant Fellow

Justine is interested in how internal factors, such as the gut microbiome, and external factors, like exposure to pollutants, all influence social behavior and scale to affect societal dynamics.

Hobbies

Full time cat and plant mom, crocheting, video gaming, and cooking

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PhD Candidate - NSF Graduate Research Fellow

Rachael is interested in how stress impacts social behavior.

Hobbies

Lifting weights, backpacking, and watching indie movies in subtitles no one understands

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PhD Candidate

Casey is interested in communication networks and how they are used to organize collective behavior.

Hobbies

Painting, board games and spending time with her dog

PhD Student

Kerrigan is interested in how environmental and social information are received by individuals and acted upon in communities.

Hobbies

Quilting, paddle boarding, playing board or video games

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Undergraduate Student

Nathan is interested in how social interactions in bees happen at the molecular level.
Hobbies:
Hiking, biking, log rolling, and playing video games

Undergraduate Student

Alyssa is interested in how social and genetic information affect collective behavior

Hobbies

Puzzle building, playing video games/board games, spending time with my fish

Undergraduate Student

Jordan is interested in studying evolutionary processes and behaviors as means for furthering conservation efforts

Hobbies
Reading, playing guitar, and hanging out with animals

Master's Student

Noor is interested in analyzing the relationship between temperature changes and honeybee movement using video tracking data to identify patterns in velocity across different group sizes.

Hobbies

Reading, cooking, traveling, working out and spending quality time with loved ones