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lab profile
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 James C. Nieh
University of California San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive
Mail Code 0116
La Jolla, CA 92093-0116
USA
jnieh@ucsd.edu
858 822 5010
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| PI: |
YES |
| Taxa Studied: |
Invertebrate Animals |
| Techniques Employed: |
Bioinformatics/Sequence Analysis, Other, thermal imaging, bioacoustics, laser vibrometry |
| Research Description: |
The social corbiculate bees (honey bees, stingless bees, and bumble bees) contain some of the most important, diverse, and geographically widespread insect pollinators. They are also a fascinating group in which to study social behavior and communication from an ultimate evolutionary perspective and in terms of proximate questions about the genetic and neural control of social behaviors. My research focuses on the evolution and sensory physiology of communication in social bees, examining the selective pressures that may have shaped such communication and how information is actually transferred through different sensory modalities. |
| Lab Web Page: |
http://biology.ucsd.edu/labs/nieh/index.html |
| Willing to Host Undergraduates: |
YES |
| Actively Seeking Undergraduates: |
YES |
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