Bob Minckley
My Ph.D. is in Entomology from the University of Kansas in 1993 under the guidance of Charles D. Michener. Mich was a remarkable mentor both about science and life. I first began studying bees as a Master's student under Bob Smith and Steve Buchmann in Entomology at the University of Arizona. My B.Sc. was also from the University of Arizona from the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.
Conor Vanderlip
Conor is an undergraduate student in Biology at the University of Rochester and originally from western New York.
Since 2023 he has been examining if pollen specialist bees from the North American deserts preferentially use annual or perennial plants species as pollen hosts. Conor spent Fall 2023 in Equador and the Galapogos Islands for study abroad.
Simar Kaur
Simar is an undergraduate student in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Rochester. She is all the way from the Hudson Valley of New York. She has worked in the lab since 2024 and is starting a project on the phenology and local distribution of Lasioglossum (Dialictus) spp. from the Chihuahuan Desert. Simar spent the summer of 2024 at the Southwest Research Station near Portal, Arizona where, among other things, she helped census owls. In her hand is a whiskered screech owl (Megascops trichopsis).
Misha Parikh
Misha is an undergraduate student in Computational Biology at the University of Rochester.
She is originally from New Jersey and joined the lab in the fall of 2024.