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(*student researchers, **contributed equally)
Vanessa Corby-Harris, Kristin E. Habel*, Fatima G. Ali*, Daniel E. L. Promislow. 2007. Alternative measures of resistance to Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection in Drosophila melanogaster. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. *highlighted in Faculty of 1000
Joep M.S. Burger, Dae Sung Hwangbo, Vanessa Corby-Harris, Daniel E. L. Promislow. 2007. The functional costs and benefits of dietary restriction in Drosophila. Aging Cell.
Vanessa Corby-Harris, Ana Clara Pontaroli, Lawrence J. Shimkets, Jeffrey L. Bennetzen, Kristin E. Habel*, Daniel E.L. Promislow. 2007. Geographical distribution and diversity of bacteria associated with natural populations of Drosophila melanogaster. Applied and Environmental Microbiology.
Chih-Horng Kuo, Vanessa Corby-Harris, Daniel E. L. Promislow. 2008. The unavoidable costs and unexpected benefits of parasitism: population and metapopulation models of parasite-mediated competition. Journal of Theoretical Biology.
Vanessa Corby-Harris and Daniel E. L. Promislow. 2008. Host ecology shapes geographical variation for resistance to bacterial infection in Drosophila melanogaster. Journal of Animal Ecology.
Teresa Joy*, Anam Arik, Vanessa Corby-Harris, Adiv Johnson*, Michael A. Riehle. 2010. The impact of larval and adult dietary restriction on lifespan, reproduction and growth in the mosquito Aedes aegypti. Experimental Gerontology.
Vanessa Corby-Harris**, Anna Drexler**, Laurel Watkins de Jong*, Yevgeniya Antonova, Nazzy Pakpour, Rolf Zeigler, Frank Ramberg, Jessica M. Brown, Shirley Luckhart, Michael A. Riehle. 2011. Activation of Akt signaling reduces the prevalence and intensity of malaria parasite infection and lifespan in Anopheles stephensi mosquitoes. PLoS Pathogens. *named one of Time’s 50 best inventions of 2010
Nazzy Pakpour, Vanessa Corby-Harris, Gabriel P. Green, Hannah M. Smithers, Kong W. Cheung, Michael A. Riehle, Shirley Luckhart. 2012. Ingested human insulin inhibits the mosquito NF-κB-dependent immune response to Plasmodium falciparum. Journal of Innate Immunity.
Kirk E. Anderson, Timothy H. Sheehan, Brendon M. Mott, Patrick Maes*, Lucy Snyder*, Melissa R. Schwan*, Alexander Walton*, Beryl M. Jones*, Vanessa Corby-Harris. 2013. Microbial ecology of the hive and pollination landscape: bacterial associates from floral nectar, the alimentary tract and stored food of honey bees (Apis mellifera). PLoS One.
Kirk E. Anderson, Andreas Johansson, Tim H. Sheehan*, Brendon M. Mott, Vanessa Corby-Harris, Laurel Johnstone, Ryan Sprissler, William Fitz. 2013. Draft genome sequences of two Bifidobacterium sp. from the honey bee (Apis mellifera). Gut Pathogens.
Vanessa Corby-Harris, Beryl M. Jones*, Alexander Walton*, Melissa R. Schwan* Kirk E. Anderson. 2014. Transcriptional markers of sub-optimal nutrition in developing Apis mellifera nurse workers. BMC Genomics.
Associated transcriptome data can be downloaded from NCBI SRA Accession PRJNA240064.
Vanessa Corby-Harris, Patrick Maes*, Kirk E. Anderson. 2014. The bacterial communities associated with honey bee (Apis mellifera) foragers. PLoS One.
Vanessa Corby-Harris, Melissa R. Schwan*, Lucy Snyder*, Patrick Maes* Kirk E. Anderson. 2014. Origin and effect of Acetobacteraceae Alpha 2.2 in honey bee larvae and description of Parasaccharibacter apium, gen. nov., sp. nov. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. *AEM spotlight article
Kirk E. Anderson, Mark J. Carroll, Timothy H. Sheehan*, Brendon M. Mott, Patrick Maes*, Vanessa Corby-Harris. 2014. Hive-stored pollen of honey bees: Many lines of evidence are consistent with pollen preservation, not nutrient conversion. Molecular Ecology.
Vanessa Corby-Harris, Charlotte A. D. Meador*, Lucy A. Snyder*, Melissa R. Schwan*, Patrick Maes, Beryl Jones, Alexander Walton, Kirk E. Anderson. 2016. Transcriptional, translational, and physiological signatures of undernourished honey bees (Apis mellifera) suggest a role for hormonal factors in hypopharyngeal gland degradation. Journal of Insect Physiology.
Associated transcriptome data can be downloaded from NCBI SRA Accession PRJNA694695.
Kirk E. Anderson**, Pedro A.P. Rodrigues**, Brendon M. Mott, Patrick Maes, and Vanessa Corby-Harris. 2016. Ecological succession in the honey bee gut: Shift in Lactobacillus strain dominance during early adult development. Microbial Ecology.
Vanessa Corby-Harris, Lucy A. Snyder*, Charlotte A. D. Meador*, Rebecca Naldo*, Brendon M. Mott, Kirk E. Anderson. 2016. Parasaccharibacter apium, gen. nov., sp. nov., improves honey bee (Hymenoptera: Apidae) resistance to Nosema. Journal of Economic Entomology.
Gloria DeGrandi-Hoffman, Vanessa Corby-Harris, Emily Watkins DeJong, Mona Chambers, Geoffrey Hidalgo. 2016. Honey bee gut microbial communities are robust to the fungicide Prisitine consumed in pollen. Apidologie.
Vanessa Corby-Harris, Lucy Snyder, Charlotte Meador, Trace Ayotte. 2018. Honey bee (Apis mellifera) nurses do not consume pollens based on their nutritional quality. PLoS One.
Vanessa Corby-Harris and Kirk E. Anderson. 2018. Draft genome sequences of four Parasaccharibacter apium strains isolated from honey bees. genomeA.
Vanessa Corby-Harris and Lucy Snyder. 2018. Measuring hypopharyngeal gland acinus size in honey bee (Apis mellifera) workers. JoVE.
See video here.
Gloria DeGrandi-Hoffman, Stephanie L. Gage, Vanessa Corby-Harris, Mark Carroll, Mona Chambers, Henry Graham, Emily Watkins DeJong*, Geoffrey Hidalgo*, Samantha Calle*, Farida Azzouz-Olden, Charlotte Meador, Lucy Snyder, Nick Ziolkowski*. 2018. Connecting the nutrient composition of seasonal pollens with changing nutritional needs of honey bee (Apis mellifera L.) colonies. Journal of Insect Physiology.
Associated transcriptome data can be downloaded from NCBI SRA Accession PRJNA442330.
Vanessa Corby-Harris , Julia H. Bowsher , Morgan Carr-Markell, Mark J. Carroll , Mary Centrella, Steven C. Cook, Margaret Couvillon, Gloria DeGrandi-Hoffman, Adam Dolezal, Julia C. Jones, Christina L. Mogren , Clint R. V. Otto , Pierre Lau , Juliana Rangel , Roger Schürch, Ashley St. Clair. 2018. Emerging Themes from the ESA Symposium Entitled “Pollinator Nutrition: Lessons from Bees at Individual to Landscape Levels”. Bee World.
William G. Meikle, Vanessa Corby-Harris, Mark J. Carroll, Milagra Weiss, Lucy A. Snyder, Charlotte A.D. Meador, Eli Beren, Nicholas Brown. 2019. Exposure to sublethal concentrations of methoxyfenozide disrupts honey bee colony activity and thermoregulation. PLoS ONE.
Vanessa Corby-Harris, Lucy Snyder, Charlotte Meador. 2019. Fat body lipolysis connects poor nutrition to hypopharyngeal gland degradation in Apis mellifera. Journal of Insect Physiology.
Vanessa Corby-Harris, Megan E. Deeter, Lucy Snyder, Charlotte Meador, Ashley C. Welchert, Amelia Hoffman, Bethany T. Obernesser. 2020. Octopamine mobilizes lipids from honey bee (Apis mellifera) hypopharyngeal glands. Journal of Experimental Biology.
Gloria DeGrandi-Hoffman, Vanessa Corby-Harris, Yanping Chen, Henry Graham, Mona Chambers, Emily Watkins DeJong, Nicholas Ziolkowski, Yun Kang, Stephanie Gage, Megan Deeter, Michael Simone-Finstrom, Lilia de Guzman. 2020. Can supplementary pollen feeding reduce varroa mite and virus levels and improve honey bee colony survival? Experimental and Applied Acarology.
Gloria DeGrandi-Hoffman, Vanessa Corby-Harris, Mark Carroll, Amy L. Toth, Stephanie Gage, Emily Watkins deJong, Henry Graham, Mona Chambers, Charlotte Meador, Bethany Obernesser. 2021. The importance of time and place: Nutrient composition and utilization of seasonal pollens by European honey bees (Apis mellifera L.). Insects.
Julia D. Fine and Vanessa Corby-Harris. 2021. Beyond brood: the potential impacts of insect growth disruptors on the long-term health and performance of honey bee colonies. Apidologie.
Eric Smith, Kirk E. Anderson, Vanessa Corby-Harris, Quinn S. McFrederick, Audrey J. Parish, Danny W. Rice, Irene Newton. 2021. Reclassification of seven honey bee symbiont strains as Bombella apis. IJSEM.
Vanessa Corby-Harris, Meghan M. Bennett, Megan E. Deeter, Lucy Snyder, Charlotte Meador, Ashley C. Welchert, Amelia Hoffman, Bethany T. Obernesser, Mark J. Carroll. 2021. Fatty acid homeostasis in honey bees (Apis mellifera) fed commercial diet supplements. Apidologie.
GC-MS data and calculations explained here.
Maria Bouga, Melanie Parejo, Adriana M. Alippi, Otilia Bobis, Robert Brodschneider, Panuwan Chantawannakul, Vanessa Corby-Harris, Bjørn Dahle, Maria Dimou, Anna Gajda, Dora Henriques, Irfan Kandemir, Robert Pickard, Juliana Rangel, Victoria Soroker, Jevrosima Stevanovic. 2021. The 60th volume of the Journal of Apicultural Research - a look into the past and future. Journal of Apicultural Research.
Meghan M. Bennett, Ashley C. Welchert, Mark Carroll, Sharoni Shafir, Brian H. Smith, Vanessa Corby-Harris. 2022. Unbalanced fatty acid diets impair discrimination ability of honey bee workers to damaged and healthy brood odors. Journal of Experimental Biology.
Mark J. Carroll, Vanessa Corby-Harris, Nicholas Brown, et al. 2022. Methoxyfenozide has minimal effects on replacement queens but may negatively affect sperm storage. Apidologie.
(*student researchers, **contributed equally)
Vanessa Corby-Harris, Kristin E. Habel*, Fatima G. Ali*, Daniel E. L. Promislow. 2007. Alternative measures of resistance to Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection in Drosophila melanogaster. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. *highlighted in Faculty of 1000
Joep M.S. Burger, Dae Sung Hwangbo, Vanessa Corby-Harris, Daniel E. L. Promislow. 2007. The functional costs and benefits of dietary restriction in Drosophila. Aging Cell.
Vanessa Corby-Harris, Ana Clara Pontaroli, Lawrence J. Shimkets, Jeffrey L. Bennetzen, Kristin E. Habel*, Daniel E.L. Promislow. 2007. Geographical distribution and diversity of bacteria associated with natural populations of Drosophila melanogaster. Applied and Environmental Microbiology.
Chih-Horng Kuo, Vanessa Corby-Harris, Daniel E. L. Promislow. 2008. The unavoidable costs and unexpected benefits of parasitism: population and metapopulation models of parasite-mediated competition. Journal of Theoretical Biology.
Vanessa Corby-Harris and Daniel E. L. Promislow. 2008. Host ecology shapes geographical variation for resistance to bacterial infection in Drosophila melanogaster. Journal of Animal Ecology.
Teresa Joy*, Anam Arik, Vanessa Corby-Harris, Adiv Johnson*, Michael A. Riehle. 2010. The impact of larval and adult dietary restriction on lifespan, reproduction and growth in the mosquito Aedes aegypti. Experimental Gerontology.
Vanessa Corby-Harris**, Anna Drexler**, Laurel Watkins de Jong*, Yevgeniya Antonova, Nazzy Pakpour, Rolf Zeigler, Frank Ramberg, Jessica M. Brown, Shirley Luckhart, Michael A. Riehle. 2011. Activation of Akt signaling reduces the prevalence and intensity of malaria parasite infection and lifespan in Anopheles stephensi mosquitoes. PLoS Pathogens. *named one of Time’s 50 best inventions of 2010
Nazzy Pakpour, Vanessa Corby-Harris, Gabriel P. Green, Hannah M. Smithers, Kong W. Cheung, Michael A. Riehle, Shirley Luckhart. 2012. Ingested human insulin inhibits the mosquito NF-κB-dependent immune response to Plasmodium falciparum. Journal of Innate Immunity.
Kirk E. Anderson, Timothy H. Sheehan, Brendon M. Mott, Patrick Maes*, Lucy Snyder*, Melissa R. Schwan*, Alexander Walton*, Beryl M. Jones*, Vanessa Corby-Harris. 2013. Microbial ecology of the hive and pollination landscape: bacterial associates from floral nectar, the alimentary tract and stored food of honey bees (Apis mellifera). PLoS One.
Kirk E. Anderson, Andreas Johansson, Tim H. Sheehan*, Brendon M. Mott, Vanessa Corby-Harris, Laurel Johnstone, Ryan Sprissler, William Fitz. 2013. Draft genome sequences of two Bifidobacterium sp. from the honey bee (Apis mellifera). Gut Pathogens.
Vanessa Corby-Harris, Beryl M. Jones*, Alexander Walton*, Melissa R. Schwan* Kirk E. Anderson. 2014. Transcriptional markers of sub-optimal nutrition in developing Apis mellifera nurse workers. BMC Genomics.
Associated transcriptome data can be downloaded from NCBI SRA Accession PRJNA240064.
Vanessa Corby-Harris, Patrick Maes*, Kirk E. Anderson. 2014. The bacterial communities associated with honey bee (Apis mellifera) foragers. PLoS One.
Vanessa Corby-Harris, Melissa R. Schwan*, Lucy Snyder*, Patrick Maes* Kirk E. Anderson. 2014. Origin and effect of Acetobacteraceae Alpha 2.2 in honey bee larvae and description of Parasaccharibacter apium, gen. nov., sp. nov. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. *AEM spotlight article
Kirk E. Anderson, Mark J. Carroll, Timothy H. Sheehan*, Brendon M. Mott, Patrick Maes*, Vanessa Corby-Harris. 2014. Hive-stored pollen of honey bees: Many lines of evidence are consistent with pollen preservation, not nutrient conversion. Molecular Ecology.
Vanessa Corby-Harris, Charlotte A. D. Meador*, Lucy A. Snyder*, Melissa R. Schwan*, Patrick Maes, Beryl Jones, Alexander Walton, Kirk E. Anderson. 2016. Transcriptional, translational, and physiological signatures of undernourished honey bees (Apis mellifera) suggest a role for hormonal factors in hypopharyngeal gland degradation. Journal of Insect Physiology.
Associated transcriptome data can be downloaded from NCBI SRA Accession PRJNA694695.
Kirk E. Anderson**, Pedro A.P. Rodrigues**, Brendon M. Mott, Patrick Maes, and Vanessa Corby-Harris. 2016. Ecological succession in the honey bee gut: Shift in Lactobacillus strain dominance during early adult development. Microbial Ecology.
Vanessa Corby-Harris, Lucy A. Snyder*, Charlotte A. D. Meador*, Rebecca Naldo*, Brendon M. Mott, Kirk E. Anderson. 2016. Parasaccharibacter apium, gen. nov., sp. nov., improves honey bee (Hymenoptera: Apidae) resistance to Nosema. Journal of Economic Entomology.
Gloria DeGrandi-Hoffman, Vanessa Corby-Harris, Emily Watkins DeJong, Mona Chambers, Geoffrey Hidalgo. 2016. Honey bee gut microbial communities are robust to the fungicide Prisitine consumed in pollen. Apidologie.
Vanessa Corby-Harris, Lucy Snyder, Charlotte Meador, Trace Ayotte. 2018. Honey bee (Apis mellifera) nurses do not consume pollens based on their nutritional quality. PLoS One.
Vanessa Corby-Harris and Kirk E. Anderson. 2018. Draft genome sequences of four Parasaccharibacter apium strains isolated from honey bees. genomeA.
Vanessa Corby-Harris and Lucy Snyder. 2018. Measuring hypopharyngeal gland acinus size in honey bee (Apis mellifera) workers. JoVE.
See video here.
Gloria DeGrandi-Hoffman, Stephanie L. Gage, Vanessa Corby-Harris, Mark Carroll, Mona Chambers, Henry Graham, Emily Watkins DeJong*, Geoffrey Hidalgo*, Samantha Calle*, Farida Azzouz-Olden, Charlotte Meador, Lucy Snyder, Nick Ziolkowski*. 2018. Connecting the nutrient composition of seasonal pollens with changing nutritional needs of honey bee (Apis mellifera L.) colonies. Journal of Insect Physiology.
Associated transcriptome data can be downloaded from NCBI SRA Accession PRJNA442330.
Vanessa Corby-Harris , Julia H. Bowsher , Morgan Carr-Markell, Mark J. Carroll , Mary Centrella, Steven C. Cook, Margaret Couvillon, Gloria DeGrandi-Hoffman, Adam Dolezal, Julia C. Jones, Christina L. Mogren , Clint R. V. Otto , Pierre Lau , Juliana Rangel , Roger Schürch, Ashley St. Clair. 2018. Emerging Themes from the ESA Symposium Entitled “Pollinator Nutrition: Lessons from Bees at Individual to Landscape Levels”. Bee World.
William G. Meikle, Vanessa Corby-Harris, Mark J. Carroll, Milagra Weiss, Lucy A. Snyder, Charlotte A.D. Meador, Eli Beren, Nicholas Brown. 2019. Exposure to sublethal concentrations of methoxyfenozide disrupts honey bee colony activity and thermoregulation. PLoS ONE.
Vanessa Corby-Harris, Lucy Snyder, Charlotte Meador. 2019. Fat body lipolysis connects poor nutrition to hypopharyngeal gland degradation in Apis mellifera. Journal of Insect Physiology.
Vanessa Corby-Harris, Megan E. Deeter, Lucy Snyder, Charlotte Meador, Ashley C. Welchert, Amelia Hoffman, Bethany T. Obernesser. 2020. Octopamine mobilizes lipids from honey bee (Apis mellifera) hypopharyngeal glands. Journal of Experimental Biology.
Gloria DeGrandi-Hoffman, Vanessa Corby-Harris, Yanping Chen, Henry Graham, Mona Chambers, Emily Watkins DeJong, Nicholas Ziolkowski, Yun Kang, Stephanie Gage, Megan Deeter, Michael Simone-Finstrom, Lilia de Guzman. 2020. Can supplementary pollen feeding reduce varroa mite and virus levels and improve honey bee colony survival? Experimental and Applied Acarology.
Gloria DeGrandi-Hoffman, Vanessa Corby-Harris, Mark Carroll, Amy L. Toth, Stephanie Gage, Emily Watkins deJong, Henry Graham, Mona Chambers, Charlotte Meador, Bethany Obernesser. 2021. The importance of time and place: Nutrient composition and utilization of seasonal pollens by European honey bees (Apis mellifera L.). Insects.
Julia D. Fine and Vanessa Corby-Harris. 2021. Beyond brood: the potential impacts of insect growth disruptors on the long-term health and performance of honey bee colonies. Apidologie.
Eric Smith, Kirk E. Anderson, Vanessa Corby-Harris, Quinn S. McFrederick, Audrey J. Parish, Danny W. Rice, Irene Newton. 2021. Reclassification of seven honey bee symbiont strains as Bombella apis. IJSEM.
Vanessa Corby-Harris, Meghan M. Bennett, Megan E. Deeter, Lucy Snyder, Charlotte Meador, Ashley C. Welchert, Amelia Hoffman, Bethany T. Obernesser, Mark J. Carroll. 2021. Fatty acid homeostasis in honey bees (Apis mellifera) fed commercial diet supplements. Apidologie.
GC-MS data and calculations explained here.
Maria Bouga, Melanie Parejo, Adriana M. Alippi, Otilia Bobis, Robert Brodschneider, Panuwan Chantawannakul, Vanessa Corby-Harris, Bjørn Dahle, Maria Dimou, Anna Gajda, Dora Henriques, Irfan Kandemir, Robert Pickard, Juliana Rangel, Victoria Soroker, Jevrosima Stevanovic. 2021. The 60th volume of the Journal of Apicultural Research - a look into the past and future. Journal of Apicultural Research.
Meghan M. Bennett, Ashley C. Welchert, Mark Carroll, Sharoni Shafir, Brian H. Smith, Vanessa Corby-Harris. 2022. Unbalanced fatty acid diets impair discrimination ability of honey bee workers to damaged and healthy brood odors. Journal of Experimental Biology.
Mark J. Carroll, Vanessa Corby-Harris, Nicholas Brown, et al. 2022. Methoxyfenozide has minimal effects on replacement queens but may negatively affect sperm storage. Apidologie.
