Category Genetics
Cross-posted from Bugs in our Backyard This is the first in what I hope will be a series of posts based on content in courses I’m now teaching. Modern biology has more data than it can handle. Thanks to modern… Continue Reading →
What’s with the tents behind the baseball field? These tents contain several colonies of a native bumblebee, Bombus impatiens. These colonies are commercially available for large scale pollination. This summer our lab is investigating the expression of antimicrobial peptides in bumblebees, under… Continue Reading →
The Colby Magazine has broken news that the lab will be supported over the next five years by a grant from NSF. The funds will support work on an integrative investigation of wing polyphenism in the red-shouldered soapberry bug, Jadera haematoloma…. Continue Reading →