Dr. Niño's research interests include: Honey Bee Biology, Health, and Breeding, Behavior, Reproductive Physiology, Genomics, Chemical Ecology, Sociology of Beekeeping.

Dr. Nansen's research interests include: Insect Ecology, IPM, Remote Sensing, host plant stress detection, host selection by arthropods, pesticide performance, and use of reflectance-based imaging in a wide range of research applications.

I am broadly interested in Animal Behavior, Evolution, Theoretical Biology, and Genomics. To date, my research has used a combination of experiments, simulation models, and computational biology to explore the evolution of advanced sociality, mechanisms of social organization, and self-organization. Chief amongst my results are that novel genes (orphans) are important for eusocial evolution and task allocation can work via a self organizing coupled localization diffusion process. I have also shown that colony fitness is often maximized when selection couples self-organization with other mechanisms, such as templates and recipes. In addition, I have written forward thinking conceptual syntheses on the evolution of the superorganism phenotype and division of labor. These syntheses present integrative biology perspectives on eusocial evolution and propose novel hypotheses, which I plan to make the subject of my future work.

My work focuses on pests of field and vegetable crops in California and the dynamic interactions that occur as we seek to manage them. This work includes research on plant-pest interactions, IPM, pesticide applications, insect ecology, biological control and invasive species.

Dr. Cornel's research interests include: Genomic studies on mosquitoes of medical importance. Particular emphasis on insecticide resistance genes and Anopheles polytene chromosome physical mapping.

Laboratory Research Interests: Molecular Genetics of Animal Behavior, Circadian and Seasonal Biology, Posttranslational Regulation of Proteins, Insect Genomics

Dr. Bond's research interests include: Systematics, taxonomy, and evolution of terrestrial arthropods with an emphasis on arachnids and myriapods. We employ molecular, morphological, and ecological approaches to study questions related to evolutionary diversification at multiple hierarchical levels (populations – higher taxa).

Dr. Attardo leads a research team focused on developing deeper understandings of insect vectors of disease. His work delves into various aspects of their physiology, including reproduction, symbiosis, nutrition, and metabolism. He's also deeply explored the intricacies of transcriptional regulation, comparative genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics. Recent studies investigate the physiology underlying insecticide resistance in mosquitoes and the interactions between wildfire-associated ecological changes and invasive mosquito physiology. The group is also developing a project focusing on an interdisciplinary collaboration with local Native American ecologists. This partnership aims to understand how traditional ecological knowledge and wetlands restoration techniques could innovate in vector-borne disease transmission reduction.