Animal Behavior Graduate Group Seminar Series: "Reward evaluation differs between bumble bee queens and workers" & "Learning and memory in queens across life stages"

Dr. Sarah Waybright, Postdoctoral Researcher, Muth Lab, University of California, Davis, presents "Reward evaluation differs between bumble bee queens and workers".
I earned my Ph.D. at the University of Wyoming studying the thermal physiology of bumble bees. Broadly, I am interested in how anthropogenic activities–including climate change–challenge animals. My current work focuses on intra- and interspecific differences in cognition in wild bumble bees, and I am increasingly interested in how environmental stressors and physiological state may interact to shape cognitive performance and behavior.

Dr. Melanie Kimball, Postdoctoral Researcher, Muth Lab, University of California, Davis, presents "Learning and memory in queens across life stages".
I earned my Ph.D. in biology from LSU studying the mechanisms of behavior in songbirds. More broadly, I am interested in how physiology, neurobiology, and ecology interact to influence behavior and how animals adapt to environmental stressors. Currently, as a postdoc in the Muth Lab, I study variation in cognition in queen and worker bumblebees.

Host: Dr. Felicity Muth ([email protected])