Author: Horace Zeng

Using eDNA to study the impact of parasitic bees on a tropical bee community The role The role holder will plan and perform research to study how parasitic robbers bees of the genus Lestrimelitta impact other social bee species in a tropical bee community in Brazil. You will develop an approach that uses eDNA metabarcoding to identify…

To apply: https://apply.interfolio.com/159179 Postdoctoral Research Scholar: Function and Evolution of Insect Societies Location Tempe Campus, Arizona State University Open Date Nov 14, 2024 Description We are seeking an excellent recent Ph.D. for a postdoctoral position focused on the function and evolution of insect societies. Multiple models of southwestern species are possible, but harvester ants and…

The lab of Dr. Beryl Jones at the University of Kentucky (Department of Entomology) is recruiting graduate students for Fall 2025. Students will join a growing research group focused on the genomic and environmental factors shaping social plasticity in bees. Research Focus Student projects will investigate gene regulatory changes associated with evolutionary transitions in bee…

Dr. James Makinson‘s lab at the Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment at Western Sydney University, Australia, is seeking two outstanding PhD candidates to join a groundbreaking research project funded by Hort Innovation. The project, titled “Progress on bumble bees as commercial pollinators in Australia: update on risks and opportunities”, focuses on studying the ecology of…

The impact of parasitic bees & climate change on stingless bees and Indigenous beekeeping livelihoods in the Peruvian Amazon Application deadline: 4 pm Monday 6th January 2025. We invite applications for a 4-year PhD project (standard UKRI stipend) at the University of Bristol, UK. This interdisciplinary project will investigate the impacts of natural and anthropogenic…

Open Position: Graduate Student (Ph.D.) in the Smith Bee Lab at Auburn UniversityResearch Areas: Honey bee biology, social physiology, nest architecture, collective behavior See the complete advert here. The Smith Bee Lab conducts research on the basic biology of honey bee colonies within a natural history context, focusing on colony organization, development, nest architecture, and…

Graduate Research Associate (PhD) in wild honey bee ecology Position Announcement: We are seeking an exceptional candidate to join the University of Florida’s Honey Bee Research and Extension Laboratory (HBREL) as a PhD student investigating wild honey bee ecology in South Africa. Headquartered in the Entomology and Nematology Department, the PhD student will join a dynamic…

Overview The Department of Biology (www.biology.usu.edu) is seeking to fill a cluster of 2-3 tenure track (1.0 FTE, 9 month, 50% research, 40% teaching, 10% service) positions in the area of Cell and Molecular biology to start in the Fall of 2025. This includes biologists whose research addresses questions in neuroscience, development (including evo-devo), systems…

We are excited to announce an opening for a postdoctoral researcher position to work on a newly NSF-funded project, which is a collaboration between Noa Pinter-Wollman (UCLA) and Nina Fefferman (UTK) on “The causes and consequences of Higher Order Interactions (HOI)”. The work aims to establish a new framework for studying how higher order interactions,…

Message from Dr. Chris R. Smith: I am hiring a post doc to work on social insect evolution, particularly caste evolution in ants. See the ad below and at this link Come join the awesome biology department at USU – great people and great facilities. We also have great social insect resources, including several other…