Mark Brown (London, UK)

I am interested in host-parasite evolutionary ecology, and the ecological and conservation implications of parasites. My work focuses on parasites in social insects.

Lars Chittka (London, UK)

I am interested in the evolution and ecology of sensory systems and cognition, and the neural mechanisms that underpin them. I use bees and their interaction with flower signals to answer fundamental questions about how cognitive-behavioural systems function in the economy of nature.

Jay Evans (Beltsville, USA)

My research interests include the individual defenses of honey bees against parasites and pathogens and genetic traits of these threats that enable them to injure bees and bring down colonies. I am also interested in genomic analyses of honey bees and other social and solitary insects.

Klaus Hartfelder (São Paulo, Brazil)

My interest is to understand developmental mechanisms underlying caste syndromes in social insects. While having a primary focus on the honey bee, as a model organism, I also investigate such mechanisms in the tropical stingless bees, so as to get a glimpse on evolutionary trends. In collaboration with leading groups, wasps, ants and termites are recent newcomers to my research interests.

Alexandra-Maria Klein (Lüneburg, Germany)

One of my main research interests is to understand if and why biodiversity is important to stabilize pollination at plant species and community level. This includes how environmental changes shift spatio-temporal resource partitioning of bees and flies using almond pollination in California as one model system.

David Roubik (Balboa, Republic of Panama)

Research interests: equatorial bee biology, honey bees, stingless bees, orchid bees, and pollination ecology. Behavior, Evolution, Ecology, Biogeography, Systematics and Natural History.