Lab Members

Heather Hines, PI
Assistant Professor of Biology and Entomology

208 Mueller Lab Pennsylvania State University University Park, PA 16802, USAOffice: 517 Mueller Lab Lab: 513, 518 Mueller Lab Office Phone: 814-863-8830 Lab phone: 814-865-7077 hmh19@psu.edu

Research Technologist
Elyse McCormick
	Bumble bee epidemiology and conservation exm865@psu.edu 515 Mueller Lab
Postdoctoral Researchers
Li Tian		Colin Wright
	Functional genetics and development of bumble bee mimetic coloration lzt22@psu.edu 518 Mueller Lab		Eberly Postdoctoral Fellow Personality and cognition in social insects colinwright@psu.edu 518 Mueller Lab

Graduate Students

Briana Ezray		Sarthok Rahman
	Bumble bee biogeography and mimicry; bee pathogens and conservation bde125@psu.edu 515 Mueller Lab		Bumble bee genomics and mimicry sxr97@psu.edu 515 Mueller Lab
Shelby Kilpatrick
	Squash bee phylogenetics Shelby’s webpage Coadvisor: Margarita Lopez-Uribe skk30@psu.edu

 

Current Undergraduates

Timothy Egner	Eris Villalona	Ashley Heimann
Insect viral transmission	Bumble bee response to plant toxins	Bee epidemiology

Lab Alumni

Patrick Lhomme (postdoc)
Guillaume Ghisbain (Visiting Scholar/Masters Intern, U. Mons, Belgium)

Undergraduates

Sophie Tessier Casey Carr Sarah Williams Carrie Hill Anna Nixon Daniel Snellings Paige Witkowski Jesse Schneider Nicole Bracci Tristan Medina Daniel Spivack Rebecca Sommer Nick MacKnight Matthew Dowhower Dianne Lee Katie Del Guercio Andrew Walrond Angela Hoover Salvatore Anzaldo