Nancy A. Moran
Lab Members


Nancy A. Moran
Professor, Integrative Biology
My long-term interests are in the evolution of biological complexity, such as that apparent in complex life histories, in intimate interactions among species, and in species-diversity of clades and communities.
My focus is on symbiosis, particularly that between multicellular hosts and microbes

Eli Powell
Research Associate
I have been helping to develop tools for studying the biological and functional complexity of microbes and their interactions with each other and their hosts in the guts of honey bees and bumble bees.
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Jo Anne Holley
Assistant Professor of Practice
Bugs in Bugs Stream
Freshman Research Initiative
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ERICK V. da SILVA MOTTA
Research Affiliate
Postdoctoral
2018-2019 Harrington Graduate Fellow
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PJ LARIVIERE
USDA NIFA Postdoctoral Fellow
I’m broadly interested in both studying and engineering biological systems involving bacteria. Currently, I’m developing molecular tools for use in engineering symbionts of honey bees.

Qiang Huang
SENIOR RESEARCH Fellow
My research focuses on the co-evolution of bees and parasites. Mostly addressing social evolution and immune responses towards hive parasite (Small hive beetles), ectoparasite (mites) and intracellular parasite (Microsporidian), as well as effective control using symbionts.

JERRY MAEDA
Graduate Student, Cell & Molecular Biology
I am broadly interested in the evolution of bacterial endosymbionts and their eukaryotic hosts. I am also interested in how insect physiology and development impact symbiont transmission and how these factors then shape endosymbiont evolution.