Category: News & Announcements (& uncategoried)

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.

See below for link or flyer for more information about a Post doc opportunity with the USDA Baton Rouge Bee Lab as part of a NIFA funded project entitled: “Microalgae as a Novel Platform to Improve Honey Bee Nutrition, Microbiome Health, and Disease Resistance.” There’s a lot of potential in this project and we’re excited…

A graduate assistantship (M.S. or Ph.D. level) is available at the Department of Entomology at Louisiana State University with Drs. Qian “Karen” Sun and Kate Ihle (USDA). The student will work on a collaborative research project with the USDA ARS Honey Bee Lab to study honey bee health from a genetics and breeding perspective, with…

During the animal behavior meeting, Social Insect Network (SI-Net) Slack Workspace was organized. The happy hours are a monthly space to share job opportunities and research. It’s an especially nice modality for post docs and grad students to use to network. It would also be great to get this out more broadly to the social insect…

The subterranean termite laboratory at the University of Florida IFAS, located at the Ft Lauderdale Research and Education Center, under the supervision of Dr. Nan-Yao Su and Dr. Thomas Chouvenc, is looking to hire two graduate students who are interested in studying various aspect of termite biology, ranging from evolution, ecology, behavior, physiology and control.…