I am currently a Chinese Academy of Sciences President's International Fellowship Initiative (PIFI) Postdoctoral Fellow in the lab of Dr. Chao-Dong Zhu in Beijing.
My highly-integrative research program centers on a fundamental, multi-faceted question:
Where do bees live, what determines their distributions (e.g., traits, floral hosts), and how do such constraints influence individuals, populations, and species?
My highly-integrative research program centers on a fundamental, multi-faceted question:
Where do bees live, what determines their distributions (e.g., traits, floral hosts), and how do such constraints influence individuals, populations, and species?
NEWS
Nov. 2020: Some news coverage of my new paper on global bee distribution: BBC, CNN, Smithsonian, Xinhua
March 2020: Back and safe in Beijing after good visits to Dr. Lucas Garibaldi in Argentina; Dr. Paul Williams, Dr. Alfried Vogler, and Dr. Hauke Koch in the UK; and the Asian Pollinator Initiative meeting in Kolkata, India. Stay healthy, everyone.
6-8 Dec. 2019: Co-organized Systematic Biology Forum in Beijing.
Aug. 2019: Second field season completed, this time near Baima Shan and Mei Li Shan in Yunnan. Keep an eye out for a new bumble bee genome!
Selected recent papers:
Orr 2020: Current Biology: Global patterns and drivers of bee distribution
Orr 2020: Nature Eco. Evol.: Taxonomy must engage with new technologies and evolve to face future challenges
Orr 2020: Megataxa: Three questions: How can taxonomists survive and thrive worldwide?
Hughes 2020: TREE: Horizon Scan of the Belt and Road Initiative
Harvey 2020: Nature Eco. Evol.: International scientists formulate a roadmap for insect conservation and recovery
Zhang 2020: Molec. Ecol. Res.: Streamlining universal single‐copy orthologue and ultraconserved element design: A case study in Collembola
Zhou 2020: Genome Biol. Evol.: The first draft genome of the plasterer bee Colletes gigas (Hymenoptera: Colletidae: Colletes)
Nov. 2020: Some news coverage of my new paper on global bee distribution: BBC, CNN, Smithsonian, Xinhua
March 2020: Back and safe in Beijing after good visits to Dr. Lucas Garibaldi in Argentina; Dr. Paul Williams, Dr. Alfried Vogler, and Dr. Hauke Koch in the UK; and the Asian Pollinator Initiative meeting in Kolkata, India. Stay healthy, everyone.
6-8 Dec. 2019: Co-organized Systematic Biology Forum in Beijing.
Aug. 2019: Second field season completed, this time near Baima Shan and Mei Li Shan in Yunnan. Keep an eye out for a new bumble bee genome!
Selected recent papers:
Orr 2020: Current Biology: Global patterns and drivers of bee distribution
Orr 2020: Nature Eco. Evol.: Taxonomy must engage with new technologies and evolve to face future challenges
Orr 2020: Megataxa: Three questions: How can taxonomists survive and thrive worldwide?
Hughes 2020: TREE: Horizon Scan of the Belt and Road Initiative
Harvey 2020: Nature Eco. Evol.: International scientists formulate a roadmap for insect conservation and recovery
Zhang 2020: Molec. Ecol. Res.: Streamlining universal single‐copy orthologue and ultraconserved element design: A case study in Collembola
Zhou 2020: Genome Biol. Evol.: The first draft genome of the plasterer bee Colletes gigas (Hymenoptera: Colletidae: Colletes)
Left: The Anthophora pueblo system. Ascosphaera picture credit to Amber Tripodi.
