The Department of Plant Sciences and
Plant Pathology
Presents a Seminar by
Dr. Michelle Flenniken
Postdoctoral Fellow
University of California, San
Francisco
Dept. of Microbiology and Immunology
“The Honey Bee Microbiome:
Pathogen and Pathway Discovery”
Thursday, December 15, 2011 at
4:00 p.m.
108 Plant Bioscience Building
I'm dying. How is it that I logged on on the 16th?! Michelle is such an amazing person. Admired her as a marathon runner before she dedicated her intellect towards bees. I would've loved to hear what she had to say. Hope some of the bee community made it...
ReplyDeleteBTW, congratulation on parenting a National Merit Scholar, Mr. Baumbauer!
The seminar was very interesting. Well, I need to confess that it got very molecular pretty fast, but what bits I could cling to were fascinating. Michelle's work was extremely well done. She examined the genetics of many of the pathogens (esp. viruses) and the genetics of the honey bee's response to infection by said pathogens.
ReplyDeleteEqually amazing and frustrating is that her lab is one of several doing very detailed work on honey bee disease mechanisms and we still don't have the answer to what is the cause of CCD after five years of research.
Thanks for the compliment, She is way smarter than her dad.