5/04/10: Dave Galbraith has been awarded the Pennsylvania Sci Tech Scholarship.
4/29/10: Dr. Sarah Kocher has been awarded a 2 year postdoctoral fellowship in Harvard’s Foundational Questions in Evolutionary Biology Program.
4/29/10: NSF-MCB grant funded: Collaborative Research: Epigenetic gene regulation in the social bee, Apis mellifera. PIs: S. Yi, M. Goodisman (Georgia Tech).
4/28/10: Dr. Sarah Kocher has been awarded the 2009 Kenneth R. Keller Award for Excellence in Doctoral Dissertation Research by the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at NCSU.
4/19/10: Holly Holt was awarded a Sigma Xi Grant-In-Aid of Research for her proposal, “Chemical Regulation of Molecular and Social Immunity in Worker Honey Bees (Apis mellifera)”.
4/5/10: Hagai Shpigler, Harland Patch, Mira Cohen, Yongliang Fan, Christina Grozinger and Guy Bloch. “The transcription factor Kruppel homolog 1 is linked to hormone mediated social organization in bees” is officially “in press” at BMC Evolutionary Biology.
3/23/10: We are pleased to welcome three new graduate students to the lab (Jessica Richards, Gabe Villar and Dave Galbraith).
2/8/10: International Conference on Pollinator Biology registration is OPEN: Click Here to Register
1/25/10: Welcome Fabio Manfredini, a new Post-Doc in the Grozinger Lab!
1/10/10: Paper in press: Kocher, S.D, Ayroles, J.,F., Stone, E. A. and C.M. Grozinger.”Individual Variation in Pheromone Response Correlates with Reproductive Traits and Brain Gene Expression in Worker Honey Bees” at PLoS ONE!
12/08/09: The Penn State Center for Pollinator Research is sponsoring the first International Conference on Pollinator Biology, Health and Policy on July 24-28, 2010. Click for more info
12/07/09: Penn State Center for Pollinator Research has been officially approved by the university.
12/3/09: Christina Grozinger, Amy Toth, and Elina Lastro will be giving presentations at the Entomological Society of American Annual Meeting this year.
11/09/09: USDA-AFRI Grant Funded: Behavioral, physiological and molecular effects of multiple factors impacting honey bee health (CO-PI Jim Tumlinson).