Posts Tagged: Kim Fondrk
Shedding New Light on Honey Bee Chromosomes
Honey bee geneticists with long ties to UC Davis are putting together those missing pieces of the...
"The honey bee genome,” Robert Page Jr. explained, “is composed of about 15,000 genes, each of which operates within a complex network of genes, doing its small, or large, share of work in building the bee, keeping its internal functions operating, or helping it function and behave in its environment. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Honey bee geneticist Robert Page Jr. (left) with colleagues: bee breeder-geneticist Kim Fondrk of UC Davis, and Martin Beye, former postdoctoral fellow in the Page lab and now a professor at the University of Düsseldorf, Germany.
It All Began at UC Davis
It all began at UC Davis. The highly acclaimed research published in Current...
Bee breeder-geneticist Michael "Kim" Fondrk works the Page bees in a Dixon almond orchard. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The Spirit of the Hive
The Spirit of the Hive: The Mechanisms of Social Evolution. That's the title of a newly published...
The queen and her court. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Queen cells. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Turning a Page in Entomological History
It was great to see Robert E. Page Jr., emeritus professor and former chair of the UC Davis...
Bee breeder-geneticist Kim Fondrk of UC Davis manages the Robert Page specialized genetic stock. These bee hives were in a Dixon almond orchard. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Springing Into Action at the Laidlaw Facility
It's not spring, but don't tell that to the folks at the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research...
Kim Fondrk
Examining Almond Blossoms
Lovely almond blossoms
Italian Bee