Comments (0) I am happy to announce that I have been awarded the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation’s Early Researcher Award. The award will facilitate the lab’s research on honey bee genes, behaviour, and adaptation.
A big welcome to our incoming grad student Brock Harpur who officially joined the lab last week. Brock joined us from the University of Northern British Colombia (BSc). He is a 2010 Julie Payette NSERC Research Scholarship awardee – Congrats Brock!
Brock plans to launch (Payette-style) his graduate work with a molecular evolution study of innate immunity in the honey bee.
The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) will fund Dr. Amro Zayed’s Discovery Program proposal titled “Genomic studies of complex behaviour: honey bee genes, behaviour, and adaptation” from 2010 to 2015. Visit www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca for more details. The funding will be used to integrate genomics and population genetics to study the evolution and genetic mechanisms underlying worker behaviour in honey bee colonies.
I am pleased to announce that NSERC postdoctoral fellow Dr. Clement Kent has joined our laboratory. Dr. Kent received his PhD from the University of Toronto where he studied the genetics of foraging and ‘social’ behaviours in the fruit fly with Drs. Marla Sokolowski and Joel Levine.
The National Science Foundation (USA) will fund a collaborative research project to investigate how worker honey bees transition between behavioural states. The project “A systems approach to brain and behavioral state in the honey bee” will be undertaken by Dr. Charles Whitfield’s (Principal Investigator) laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagin, and Dr. Amro Zayed (Co-Principal Investigator) at York University. More information on the project can be found on NSF’s website.
