Education
1992 Florida Atlantic University                BS, Biology

Interests
One of the most interesting projects I am working on at OSU has been continuing the transgenic honeybee work that Dr. Holly Ferguson began with
Sue Cobey. This has included learning the basics on collecting drone semen, queen rearing, queen insemination, queen introduction into indoor flightroom, and isolation of potential positive progeny. I have also done behavioral studies with honeybees involving backward learning using the PER. The majority of my molecular work is done in the neurobiotechnology center with Dr. Vaessin, and include basic molecular biology techniques some adapted specifically for the honey bee. My other project is the isolation of a dopamine receptor from the bee brain.