Sustainability Leadership Fellow Cohort: 2024-2025

Ph.D. Student, Department of Biology and Graduate Degree Program in Ecology

Research Summary: The metabolism of organisms has been demonstrated to play an underlying role in determining their behavior, life-history, and physiology. Therefore, understanding how the variation in metabolism interacts with environmental factors resulting in performance and fitness consequences is crucial in the face of global change. I use honeybees as a model system to address metabolism’s role in honeybee behavior, life-history, and physiology. As eusocial insects, I then investigate how these individual level differences interact and influence colony level performance.