The bee community’s answer to the 12 fruit fly genomes…. The 10 bee genomes…. all the ACGT’s plus methylation and very cool social behaviour… take that Drosophila! 🙂 [who has Drosophila envy —> me]
My former postdoc Dr. Clement Kent and I were part of a large international effort, spearheaded by the Karen Kapheim and Gene Robinson from the University of Illinois, to sequence and study the genomes of 10 bee species that vary in terms of their social organization. The study was published in the journal Science last week. Our role was to study patterns of molecular evolution as a function of social organization and genome structure.
It was a lot of fun! The added bonus (in addition to a paper in Science) is that i am now a co-author with 50+ of my favourite bee researchers from around the world… Neat!
Anyways, check out the nice little write up on the article by TheScientist’s Ruth Williams
Want to know why i got into science, and what i do when i am not in the lab…. Check out my interview for People Behind the Science! Also check out other interviews on this cool site!
Amro
Check out Annalee Newitz’s i09 story on our recent research
Happy to announce that a regional portal of the Journal Nature, Nature Middle East, published a Research highlight story on our recent honey bee population genomics study.
Postdoctoral fellow Dr. Clement Kent was interviewed today on CTV’s Canada AM regarding the recent honey bee deaths in Ontario.
I was interviewed later on the day on CBC’s 5 pm News in Toronto; Nadia, Bahar and Phil make cameo appearances.
Why do honey bees have hairy eye balls?
Hear the answer on the Quirks Question Show on Saturday Dec. 29, at noon on CBC Radio One. You can also listen online here.
The lab will be featured on next Monday’s (7th Nov 2011) episode of “A Greener York” on RogersTV. I talked about how to help bees by planting pollinator gardens. The show is currently airing on TV and I’ll post the link to the online version once it is released.
Amro
In case you missed it, Dr. Clement Kent, a postdoctoral fellow at the lab, commented on the media buzz surrounding ‘Zombie’ honey bees on CTV’s Canada AM morning show. Check it out here.
The lab will be featured on next Monday’s (7th Nov 2011) episode of “A Greener York” on RogersTV. You can view the interview online!
I am very happy to announce that Clement Kent, a postdoctoral fellow in the lab, won the North American Pollinators Protection Campaign‘s 2011 Pollinator Advocate Award for Canada. I can’t think of a more deserving individual; By day, Clement solves the mysteries of the honey bee’s genome, and by night (and on weekends), he works to develop pollinator gardens to help save the bees, the butterflies, and the birds! Check out the press release and video interview and Clement’s pollinator garden blog. Clement will also be on CBC Radio’s Here and Now later this afternoon (3:30-4:30 pm EST) [click here to hear it!]. Way to go Clement!
Comments (0) 
