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Felicity Muth, UC Davis, presents "New insights in bumblebee cognition".
Felicity Muth is broadly interested in animal behaviour and cognition, especially aspects of learning and memory that have a clear function in the natural world. They are originally from London, but carried out their undergraduate and PhD in Scotland at the University of Edinburgh and the University of St Andrews, working on nest construction in birds. After their PhD, Muth switched to working on bumblebee cognition in postdoctoral positions at the University of Arizona and University of Nevada, Reno where they were funded by L’Oreal for Women in Science, the AAUW and the USDA. The Muth Lab was at UT Austin from 2019-2024 but moved to UC Davis in Spring 2024. The Muth Lab is currently funded by a National Geographic Wildlife Intelligence grant, NSF, and by the Stengl-Wyer Foundation. Felicity Muth is a strong proponent of science communication in all its forms. They recently wrote a children’s book on bee diversity - for more info see www.amievenabee.com. They have been interviewed on NPR’s Science Friday and on KUNR, talking about bee cognition and the challenges faced by women in science. Between 2012 and 2017 Muth wrote a blog for Scientific American MIND.
Host: TBA
Enrollment — Graduates: ANB 290–001 (CRN: 20866)
Undergraduates: NPB 190C–008 (CRN: 40263)
Questions? Contact Stacey Combes (sacombes@ucdavis.edu) or Kate Laskowski (klaskowski@ucdavis.edu)