Category: News & Announcements (& uncategoried)

THE BETZ ENDOWED CHAIR PROFESSORSHIP IN ECOLOGY The BEES (Biodiversity Earth & Environmental Science) Department of Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA invites applications for a tenure-track Professor at the Associate level or higher for the endowed Betz Chair of Ecology.  We invite outstanding researchers whose work focuses on urban ecology, conservation, global change, climate change impacts and adaptation, or coupled human-natural systems. Candidates…

*****2021* Elections Committee Message****** We are seeking nominations for President-Elect, Secretary, Treasurer, 2 seats on the Awards Committee, 1 seat on the Elections Committee, and 1 seat on the Social Media Committee. Please nominate yourself or other members who you feel would be well qualified for the job (self-nominations are very much encouraged). Please email your nominations to…

Eusocial greetings to you. We are happy to announce that the long-awaited African Section of the IUSSI is about to be re-launched. Currently, we have social insect researchers from 10 African countries who are very enthusiastic to provide a strong African voice to the IUSSI. The online inauguration symposium of our section will take place…

The honey bee lab (www.yorku.ca/zayedlab) at York University’s Dept. of Biology (Toronto, Canada) has several positions available starting Fall of 2021. Projects include: 1) Ecological genomics and pollinator health: BeeCSI (https://beecsi.ca/) is a Canada-wide research project that aims to identify stressor specific biomarkers for use in pollination conservation and management. We are looking for a…

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…