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Dr. Sarah Waybright & Dr. Melanie Kimball, Postdoctoral Researchers, Muth Lab, University of California, Davis, presents "Reward evaluation differs between bumble bee queens and workers".
Dr. Sarah Waybright
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
I am from Baltimore, M.D. and received my B.S. in Biology from St. Mary's College of Maryland in 2019. I then pursued a Ph.D. in Biological Sciences at LSU, which I recently completed Spring 2024. My research career began at St. Mary's in the Malisch Lab, where I studied stress physiology in mountain songbirds in Tioga Pass Meadows, CA. In 2019 I joined the Lattin Lab, where I investigated the neural circuits that mediate neophobia behavior in wild-caught house sparrows. I started my postdoc at UC Davis in the Muth Lab Fall 2024, and I am currently investigating variation in bee cognition.
Host: Dr. Felicity Muth (fmuth@ucdavis.edu)