Tuesday, March 9th
Virtual Zoom Meeting
07:30 PM EST
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Ecophysiology of Honeybee Colonies
Jacob Peters
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Cornell University
Honeybee colonies exhibit extraordinary control over their microenvironment to maintain suitable conditions for brood rearing, food storage and communication despite fluctuating macroenvironmental conditions. They ventilate their nests to exchange respiratory gasses, modulate their density to control hive temperature and even change their shape to maintain mechanical stability when shaken by the wind. I will share some of my work to uncover the biomechanical and behavioral mechanisms that allow honeybee colonies to coordinate these collective physiological responses.
Jake Peters received his PhD in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University in 2018. He is now a postdoctoral research fellow in the Collective Embodied Intelligence Lab in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Cornell University. His current work is focused on understanding modes of indirect communication in social insects and how they might inform the design of communication strategies in large groups of small robots.
In compliance with the COVID-19 social distancing guidelines, we are temporarily suspending all physical meetings and pre-talk dinner until further notice.
CEC meetings are normally held the second Tuesday of the month from October through May. The evening schedule typically includes an informal dinner (5:45 to 7:15 PM) followed by our formal meeting (7:30 – 9:00 PM). The latter begins with club business and is followed by a 60-minute entomology related presentation. Membership is open to amateur and professional entomologists.
