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Dr. Juliana Rangel will first cover basic information about the building blocks of honey bee nutrition, and then go into her work using the geometric framework for nutritional ecology. We finish by testing our results on the preferred macronutrient ratio by bees when colonies are infected with a virus (a type of social immunity).
About the Speaker
Born in Colombia, Juliana obtained a B.S. in Ecology, Behavior, and Evolution in 2004 from the University of California, San Diego. In 2010 she obtained a Ph. D. in Neurobiology and Behavior from Cornell University. She was a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellow from 2010 to 2013 at North Carolina State University. In January 2013, Juliana became Assistant Professor of Apiculture in the Department of Entomology at Texas A&M University, and Associate Professor in 2018. Her research program focuses on the biological and environmental factors that affect the reproductive quality of honey bee queens and drones, the behavioral ecology and population genetics of unmanaged honey bees, and the quality and diversity of honey bee nutrition. She is an active member of the Texas Beekeepers Association and has spoken to dozens of beekeeping associations across the USA and internationally. She teaches the courses Honey Bee Biology, Introduction to Beekeeping, and Professional Grant and Contract Writing.
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Hosted by Environmental Institute of Houston, University of Houston-Clear Lake
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