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Mountain Bees

Part of an ongoing collaboration between the Lozier Molecular Ecology Lab and researchers at the University of Wyoming Dillon Ecophysiology Lab and the USDA ARS Pollinating Insect Research group, we are studying how native bumble bees adapt to high altitude across the Sierra-Nevada and Cascade mountain ranges in the western part of the continental US.

Urban Bees

A brand new project, I will be studying how bumble bees are affected by various kinds of anthropogenic landscape use changes by comparing gene expression and physiology between bees collected across and urban-agricultural-rural gradient. Work on this project is planned to begin mid-to-late February 2018. Stay tuned!