Eliza Litsey's Exit Seminar on 'Novel Queen Honey Bee Treatment'

Eliza Litsey, a former graduate student in the honey bee lab of Elina Lastro Niño, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology (ENT),  will present her exit seminar on "Investigating a Novel Queen Honey Bee Treatment" on Monday, Nov. 4.

Her seminar is at 4:10 p.m. in 122 Briggs Hall, and also will be on Zoom. The Zoom link:
https://ucdavis.zoom.us/j/95882849672. It will then be archived on the ENT seminar page.

Litsey,  now a laboratory technician in the lab of research entomologist Julia Fine, USDA/ARS, Davis, holds a bachelor's degree (June 2019) and master's degree (June 2024) from UC Davis. As a graduate student, she specialized in  bee biology, reproduction, and environmental toxicology.

"Juvenile hormone is an insect hormone known to regulate aspects of development and adult reproduction," she says in her abstract. "In honey bees, the role of juvenile hormone in reproduction is not well-explored, though its levels are correlated with many social behaviors and developmental pathways. A recent study demonstrated that queen exposure to the juvenile hormone mimic, pyriproxyfen, leads to higher egg hatching rates, and that the exposed queens’ offspring perform more queen supportive behaviors than the offspring of control queens. The goal of this research is to further investigate the effects of queen exposure to pyriproxyfen as a potential queen treatment, using laboratory and field-based assays."

 Nematologist Amanda Hodson, assistant professor of soil ecology and pest management, is coordinating the ENT seminars. The full list is here. For more information or for technical issues, contact Hodson at akhodson@ucdavis.edu.