Author: Kate Ihle

If you were thinking you’d like to put together an awesome symposium at next year’s International IUSSI Congress in San Diego and missed the deadline. Great news…the deadline has been extended to July 15! The guidelines and instructions are available here: http://burkclients.com/IUSSI/meetings/2022/site/index.html The Congress is going to be a great venue for rebuilding research networks…

The Rehan Lab (www.rehanlab.com) is hiring 2 positions to study behavioural genomics and molecular ecology of wild bees. The Rehan lab is a collaborative group of researchers, staff, and students focusing on bee behaviour, ecology and evolution. We are located at York University in Toronto, Canada. The candidates will join a vibrant team of integrative…

The Apiculture and Pollination lab at the University of Lethbridge is seeking applicants interested in honey bee research to join our team in January or May 2022. Funding is available for an MSc and a postdoctoral position in the Department of Biological Sciences. The graduate student and postdoctoral scholar will work under the supervision of…

Ryan Fortune is a graduate student in Amy Toth’s lab at Iowa State University. He is broadly interested in behavior, evolution, and genetics in social insects, but his current focus is on the genetics of nest building behavior. He also has a part time job in the summer months cleaning up hair from his dog…

Kate Hunter is a PhD candidate at Utah State University in the lab of Dr. Karen Kapheim. She is studying the interactions between life history trait investment and social behavior in bees. She has spent time investigating the mechanisms of trait investment in the flexibly social Megalopta genalis, the solitary Nomia melanderi, and in this project is expanding to…

Zach Balzer is a PhD student at Western University studying the invasive populations of Reticulitermes flavipes in Ontario, Canada. The main goal of his research is to determine how bottleneck effects impact invasive populations by comparing the behavioral and genetic changes of these populations to native populations. Before beginning his work on termites, Zach received…

Phoebe is a graduate student in Dr. Corrie Moreau’s lab at Cornell University, where she is studying how the optimal investment of ant colonies in defense changes over colony ontogeny. Her past research has been primarily with social insects, including ants, honey bees, and bumble bees.

If you were thinking you’d like to put together an awesome symposium at next year’s International IUSSI Congress in San Diego (yes, I know you were!), now’s the time to get on it. Just a few weeks left before the symposium deadline, Friday May 31st. The guidelines and instructions are available here: http://burkclients.com/IUSSI/meetings/2022/site/index.html The Congress…

The Entomology and Nematology Department at the University of Florida is accepting applications for a brand new lecturer position focused on online education. The department has a long history of strong distance education. As our program is growing we are excited to bring in a new educator who can focus on teaching and working with…

The awards committee has announced the call for applications for the Jeanne, Michener, Nutting, and Tschinkel Student and/or Postgraduate Research Grants. Please see Awards and Grants page for more information.