Three PhD opportunities available to study social bee ecology and behaviour! See details here
Our Interests
We're interested in the behaviour, ecology and evolution of social insects, especially social bees
Foraging in a Changing World
The world bees inhabit has changed dramatically in the last decades. We study how these anthropogenic environmental changes affect the value of communication, decision-making strategies and the health of bees
Tropical Interactions
Stingless bees show great diversity in their lifestyles. We study the evolution of social traits and how they shape ecological interactions
Molecular Basis of Behaviour
Even within a colony bees show strikingly different behaviours. We explore the molecular basis of this variation by studying gene expression patterns or signalling in the brain
Contact:
Dr. Christoph Grüter (c.grueter@bristol.ac.uk)
School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, 24 Tyndall Avenue, Bristol, BS8 1TQ United Kingdom
Latest news
- 12 November 2024: We are offering two PhD opportunities to work with stingless bees in Peru (project 1) and to study flower constancy and diet in bees (project 2).
- 7 June 2023: New paper on the diversity of communication in bees, out in PNAS.
- 24 February 2023: Hot off the press, Dr. Simone Glaser's latest paper in Animal Behaviour.
- 31 October 2022: We're recruiting! Interested in a PhD project on honeybee ecology, behaviour and health? Find more information here.
- 26 October 2022: Welcome to Mini Graydon, Dan Jones and Luís Arrochela Braga Carvalho who have joined our lab as MRes students!
- 20 December 2021: Big congratulations to Simone Glaser on her excellent PhD defence! We wish Simone all the best for the future!
