Five graduate students in honey bee research have been awarded scholarships by the Foundation for the Preservation of Honey Bees.
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Milagra WeissMilagra is an M.S. student at the University of Arizona. She is investigating the effects of high fructose corn syrup on honey bee colony founding, overwintering and physiology. She works in the USDA’s Carl Hayden Bee Research Laboratory under the supervision of Dr. Diana Sammataro. |
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Suresh DesaiSuresh is a Ph.D. student at the University of Manitoba. He works on the identification and characterization of deformed wing virus in honey bee cells and its inhibition by RNA inteference. His research is supervised by Dr. Rob Currie. |
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Juliana RangelJuliana is a Ph.D. student at Cornell University. She is investigating the mass departure of honey bee swarms, the signals that induce synchronized exodus and the effect of relatedness on partitioning between the parent colony and its swarm. Her mentor is Dr. Tom Seeley. |
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Eva ForsgrenEva is a Ph.D. student at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. Her research is focused on developing molecular tools for the diagnosis of honey bee diseases including American and European foulbrood, Nosema ceranae and honey bee viruses. Her work is supervised by Dr. Igemar Fries. |
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Josephine JohnsonJosephine is a Ph.D. student in the University of Maryland School of Medicine’s Department of Epideomology and Preventative Medicine. She is investigating the effects of pesticides on honey bee health. She is conducting her research at the USDA’s Beltsville Bee Research Laboratory, where she is being advised by Dr. Jeff Pettis. At UMSM, her advisor is Dr. Katherine S. Squibb. |