Christina Grozinger
Director of the Center for Pollinator Research; Director of the Insect Biodiversity Center; Publius Vergilius Maro Professor and Huck Scholar of Entomology
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W209 Millennium Science Complex
University Park, PA 16802 - cmg25@psu.edu
- 814-865-2214
Research Summary
Genomics of social behavior and health in bees
Huck Graduate Students
Huck Affiliations
- Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics
- Molecular, Cellular, and Integrative Biosciences
- Ecology
- Center for Pollinator Research
- Ecology Institute
- Insect Biodiversity Center
- Center for Brain, Behavior, and Cognition
- Center for Chemical Ecology
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Bees Pesticides Honey Bees Honey Ecology Pollen Nutrition Apis Mellifera Bee Parasites Pesticide Viruses Population Health Pathogens Pollinator Lipids Genes Occupational Groups Eastern Africa Overwintering Pathogenicity Bombus Pollinating Insects GenomicsMost Recent Publications
Introduction
Christina M. Grozinger, 2024, Annual Review of Entomology on p. V-VI
The Lives of Bees: A Natural History of Our Planet's Bee Life
H Patch, Christina Grozinger, 2024,
Evaluating the role of social context and environmental factors in mediating overwintering physiology in honey bees (Apis mellifera)
Gabriela Quinlan, Christina Grozinger, 2024, Journal of Experimental Biology on p. jeb--247314
Examining parent-of-origin effects on transcription and RNA methylation in mediating aggressive behavior in honey bees (Apis mellifera)
Sean T. Bresnahan, Ellen Lee, Lindsay Clark, Rong Ma, Juliana Rangel, Christina M. Grozinger, Hongmei Li-Byarlay, 2023, BMC Genomics
Beyond conflict: Kinship theory of intragenomic conflict predicts individual variation in altruistic behaviour
Sean T. Bresnahan, David Galbraith, Rong Ma, Kate Anton, Juliana Rangel, Christina M. Grozinger, 2023, Molecular Ecology on p. 5823-5837
Signatures of adaptive decreased virulence of deformed wing virus in an isolated population of wild honeybees (Apis mellifera)
Allyson M. Ray, Emma C. Gordon, Thomas D. Seeley, Jason L. Rasgon, Christina M. Grozinger, 2023, Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
More than mesolectic: Characterizing the nutritional niche of Osmia cornifrons
Makaylee K. Crone, Natalie K. Boyle, Sean T. Bresnahan, David J. Biddinger, Rodney T. Richardson, Christina M. Grozinger, 2023, Ecology and Evolution
Honey bee nutritional ecology: From physiology to landscapes
Gabriela M. Quinlan, Christina M. Grozinger, 2023, on p. 289-345
Characterizing user needs for Beescape: A spatial decision support tool focused on pollinator health
Timothy J. Prestby, Anthony C. Robinson, Dave McLaughlin, Patrick M. Dudas, Christina M. Grozinger, 2023, Journal of Environmental Management
InsectEye: An Intelligent Trap for Insect Biodiversity Monitoring
Eric Homan, Codey Mathis, Chonghan Lee, Harland Patch, Christian Grozinger, Vijay Narayanan, 2023, on p. 401-406
Most-Cited Papers
Bee nutrition and floral resource restoration
Anthony Vaudo, John F. Tooker, Christina M. Grozinger, Harland M. Patch, 2015, Current Opinion in Insect Science on p. 133--141
Macronutrient ratios in pollen shape bumble bee (Bombus impatiens) foraging strategies and floral preferences
Anthony D. Vaudo, Harland M. Patch, David A. Mortensen, John F. Tooker, Christina M. Grozinger, 2016, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America on p. E4035-E4042
Bee viruses: Ecology, pathogenicity, and impacts
Christina M. Grozinger, Michelle Flenniken, 2019, Annual Review of Entomology on p. 205--226
Genomic analysis of the interaction between pesticide exposure and nutrition in honey bees (Apis mellifera)
Daniel R. Schmehl, Peter E.A. Teal, James L. Frazier, Christina M. Grozinger, 2014, Journal of Insect Physiology on p. 177-190
Overwintering honey bees: biology and management
Mehmet Ali Döke, Maryann Frazier, Christina M. Grozinger, 2015, Current Opinion in Insect Science on p. 185-193
Pollen protein: Lipid macronutrient ratios may guide broad patterns of bee species floral preferences
Anthony Vaudo, John Tooker, Harland M. Patch, David J. Biddinger, Michael Coccia, Makaylee Crone, Mark Fiely, Jacob Francis, Heather M. Hines, Mackenzie Hodges, Stephanie Jackson, Denis Michez, Junpeng Mu, Laura Russo, Maliheh Safari, Erin Treanore, Maryse Vanderplanck, E Yip, Anne Leonard, Christina M. Grozinger, 2020, Insects on p. 132
Pesticides and pollinators: A socioecological synthesis
Douglas B. Sponsler, Christina M. Grozinger, Claudia Hitaj, Maj Rundlöf, Cristina Botías, Aimee Code, Eric V. Lonsdorf, Andony P. Melathopoulos, David J. Smith, Sainath Suryanarayanan, Wayne E. Thogmartin, Neal M. Williams, Minghua Zhang, Margaret R. Douglas, 2019, Science of the Total Environment on p. 1012-1027
Evaluation of the distribution and impacts of parasites, pathogens, and pesticides on honey bee (apis mellifera) populations in east Africa
Elliud Muli, Harland Patch, Maryann Frazier, James Frazier, Baldwyn Torto, Tracey Baumgarten, Joseph Kilonzo, James Ng ang a. Kimani, Fiona Mumoki, Daniel Masiga, James Tumlinson, Christina Grozinger, 2014, PLoS One
Parallel Epigenomic and Transcriptomic Responses to Viral Infection in Honey Bees (Apis mellifera)
David A. Galbraith, Xingyu Yang, Elina Lastro Niño, Soojin Yi, Christina Grozinger, 2015, PLoS Pathogens on p. 1-24
Unity in defence: Honeybee workers exhibit conserved molecular responses to diverse pathogens
Vincent Doublet, Yvonne Poeschl, Andreas Gogol-Döring, Cédric Alaux, Desiderato Annoscia, Christian Aurori, Seth M. Barribeau, Oscar C. Bedoya-Reina, Mark J.F. Brown, James C. Bull, Michelle L. Flenniken, David A. Galbraith, Elke Genersch, Sebastian Gisder, Ivo Grosse, Holly L. Holt, Dan Hultmark, H. Michael G. Lattorff, Yves Le Conte, Fabio Manfredini, Dino P. McMahon, Robin F.A. Moritz, Francesco Nazzi, Elina L. Niño, Katja Nowick, Ronald P. van Rij, Robert J. Paxton, Christina M. Grozinger, 2017, BMC Genomics on p. 1--17
News Articles Featuring Christina Grozinger
Jan 29, 2024
Penn State entomologists appointed to national committee on pollinator research
Two entomologists in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences have been appointed to serve on a new U.S. Department of Agriculture subcommittee on pollinators
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Jan 22, 2024
Why are bees making less honey? Study reveals clues
A new study has uncovered clues in the mystery of the declining honey yields since the 1990s
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Jan 19, 2024
Honey Yields Have Long Been on the Decline. Scientists Now Know Why States in both warm and cool regions produced higher honey yields when they had productive soil.
Researchers may have found the reason for the honey yield decline using a half centry's worth of data
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Jan 08, 2024
Where has all the honey gone? Scientists point to factors in declining yields
Research has found that several factors have hampered bees’ ability to create honey over the past decade
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Jan 06, 2024
Why are bees not making as much honey as they used to? Here’s what a team of researchers found
Honey production in America has been diminishing since the '90s, a new study has uncovered that it's due to several factors
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Jan 05, 2024
Honey yields have long been on the decline. Scientists now know why
Penn State researchers have used half a century of data to find why honey yields have been low
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Jan 04, 2024
Bees are making less honey, and five decades of data reveals why
Honey production in the United States has experienced a noticeable decline since the 1990s, a new study conducted at Penn State has shed light on this mystery, revealing key insights drawn from an extensive analysis of data spanning five decades
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Jan 03, 2024
Why are bees making less honey? Study reveals clues in five decades of data
Honey yields in the U.S. have been declining since the 1990s, a new study by Penn State researchers has uncovered clues in the mystery of the missing honey.
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Oct 18, 2023
Female honeybees may pass down ‘altruistic’ genes
Honeybee genes might make workers serve the queen above themselves
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Oct 15, 2023
Honeybees may inherit altruism from their mothers
Researchers look at the behavior in worker honey bees and find some surprises
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