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Animal Behavior's Amelia Munson - 2020 UCD Grad Slam Finalist

Congratulations, to our very own Amelia Munson! Though UC Davis Graduate Studies canceled the 2020 UCD Grad Slam final, they're eager to reward and recognize the efforts of this year’s finalists awarding each of the ten finalists a prize amount of $625.

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Prestigious Grant Awarded: Studying Honey Bee Social Networks to Improve Colony Health

Dr. Brian Johnson and ABGG graduate student Adrian Perez have been awarded a three-year grant by Project Apis Mellifera and the National Honey Board for research focused on honey bee health. The project aims to use social network analysis to understand how honey bee colonies change their social interaction patterns in response to various pathogens, food availability, and other environmental factors. The funding mainly supports the set up of a tracking system that will allow for automated monitoring of thousands of workers in the hive.

Students

Redefining what it means to be a scientist: An ABGG professor highlighted in video

Assistant Professor Rebecca Calisi Rodríguez, Department of Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior, is the subject of a new video from iBiology's "Background To Breakthrough" series. The video recounts Calisi Rodríguez's "experiences as a Mexican-Italian-American woman, professor, artist and mother have provided her with fascinating and unusual perspectives to study the biology of parental behavior.

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Education

From Tool Use in Primates to Animal Movement: Animal Behavior Graduate Student Claudio Monteza-Moreno

Behind Claudio Monteza-Moreno’s childhood home in David, Panama, a stream runs nearby a patch of forest. Monteza-Moreno spent his adolescence exploring this backyard ecosystem, observing the iguanas, turtles, fish and snakes that crawled, swam and slithered across the landscape.

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Science & Technology

Animal Behavior Society Fellow Ann Hedrick Explains Irresistible Cricket Songs

For more than 30 years, Hedrick has researched the mating behaviors of the field cricket Gryllus integer, trying to determine which heritable traits attract a mate. For her research, Hedrick was recently elected as a fellow of the Animal Behavior Society.

Science & Technology

Allison Injaian, ’18 Ph.D. in Animal Behavior: Studying Impacts of Noise Pollution on Tree Swallows

In the Patricelli Lab, Injaian focused her research on the impacts of traffic noise on the tree swallow, a small songbird found throughout North America that nests near rivers and creeks and eats aquatic insects.

Human & Animal Health

Discovering Curiosity: Art at the Zoo with Rebecca Calisi Rodríguez

Before delving into the world of endocrinology, Assistant Professor Rebecca Calisi Rodríguez wasn’t following the path of a traditional scientist. But a mystery at the Dallas Zoo would introduce her to the world of animal behavior.

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Lori Bergum
Student Services Advisor
Animal Behavior Graduate Group Coordinator
llbergum@ucdavis.edu
(530) 752-2981

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