Clare C. Rittschof – Assistant Professor

Clare earned a PhD in Zoology from the University of Florida studying spider reproductive tactics and body size evolution. From 2011-2015 she worked as a post-doc at the University of Illinois and Pennsylvania State University, studying honey bee social behavior, neuroscience, and genomics.

Rebecca Westwick – Ph.D. Student

Rebecca received a B.S. in Biology from the University of Texas. She joined the lab in the fall of 2018, and is studying how the developmental social environment impacts adult neural energetics and behavior in the honey bee.

Amanda Denny – Ph.D. Student

Amanda received her M.S. in Biology from Eastern Kentucky University. She joined the lab in Fall of 2018, and is studying how cover crop management impacts wild bee communities and early-season honey bee health (funded by the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research).

Caroline Kane – M.S. Student

Caroline received her B.S. in Neuroscience from Michigan State University. She joined the lab in Summer 2020, and is studying nutrition impacts viral presence and abundance in a citizen science project with Kentucky Beekeepers (funded by the Kentucky Agriculture Development Board).

Jimmy Harrison – Technician

Jimmy received his B.S. in Neuroscience from the University of Kentucky. He worked in the lab as an undergraduate before spending a year as a technician at the University of Michigan. He rejoined the lab in summer 2019 and is working towards a M.S. degree studying metabolomics in honey bees (funded by an internal Neuroscience Research Priority Area grant).

Undergraduate students and Research Staff (current)

Taylor Napier (Ag and Med Biotech)

Anna Foose (Ag and Med Biotech)

Gavin Brackett (Ag and Med Biotech)

Nikhil Pallem (Neuroscience)

Elisabeth Rintamaa (Ag and Med Biotech)

Bethany Ison (Neuroscience)

Ila Iniyavan (Ag and Med Biotech)

Emma Mohs (staff)

Suzanne Humphreys (staff)

Lauren Seltsam (staff)