Our ongoing projects address the following topics:
1) Honey bee nutritional physiology, or how bees convert the pollen that they eat into growth and brood care.
2) Improving pollen supplements.
3) Bee-friendly landscapes.
4) Nutrition and the stress response, and whether better nutrition increases stress tolerance.
1) Honey bee nutritional physiology, or how bees convert the pollen that they eat into growth and brood care.
2) Improving pollen supplements.
3) Bee-friendly landscapes.
4) Nutrition and the stress response, and whether better nutrition increases stress tolerance.
VANESSA'S PAST RESEARCH (2002 - 2010)
Prior to joining the USDA, Vanessa was very fortunate to work in two other insect systems and in two fantastic research labs. As a graduate student with Daniel Promislow at the University of Georgia, she studied the evolutionary ecology of resistance to bacterial infection in natural populations of Drosophila. (Please see the relevant publications here, here, here, here, and here.) As an NIH PERT postdoctoral fellow with Michael Riehle at the University of Arizona, she studied how insulin signaling impacted survival and anti-malarial immunity in mosquitoes. (Please see the relevant publications here and here.) Prospective researchers who would like to apply these themes to honey bees are encouraged to inquire with Dr. Corby-Harris.
