Christina Grozinger

Christina Grozinger is an American entomologist, currently Distinguished Professor at Pennsylvania State University[1] and the director at the center for Pollinator Research.[1] Her main areas of expertise are pollinators and honey bees, but her interests include social insects, genomics, immunity, behavior, physiology.[2] Grozinger has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles that have been cited over 10,00 times. She is the Principal investigator at the Grozinger Lab, which has trained 45 undergraduates, 15 Ph.D. students, 6 M.Sc. graduate students, and 13 post-doctoral scholars.[1]

Christina Grozinger
Born
Christina M. Grozinger

1975
Montreal, Canada
Alma materMcGill University
Scientific career
FieldsEntomology
InstitutionsPennsylvania State University

Early Life and Education

Grozinger was born in 1975 in Montreal, Canada. Her family emigrated to the United States in 1978, where she lived until she went back to Canada in 1993 to study at McGill University.[3] She graduated with a Bachelor of Science from McGill University in 1997. She then attended Harvard University and obtained a masters and Ph.D. in chemical Biology in 1999 and 2001 respectively.[1]

Career

After obtaining her Ph.D., she became a fellow at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology. She joined Gene Robinson's honey bee research lab which helped to develop her interest in honey bee behavior. She spent her time examining the neurogenic basis of pheromone-mediated behavior.[4] In 2004, she left to join the Department of Entomology and Genetics at North Carolina State University as an assistant professor. She left in 2008 to join the Department of Entomology at Pennsylvania State University. She worked her way up from associate professor to professor (2013), to distinguished Professor (2015).[4] She became the Director of the Center for Pollinator Research in 2009.[2]

Research

Grozinger's research focuses on the biology of honey bees and their pests, while further extending to other social insect species. Her approach to studying honey bees draws on several disciplines including genomics, physiology, neurobiology, and chemical ecology. She is currently examining the genetic and molecular compositions involved in pheromone communication.

Awards

[4]

  • 2018 Fellow of the Entomological Society of America
  • 2018 Keynote speaker, Biology and Genomics of Social Insects, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
  • 2018 Evolutionary Think Tank Fellow, University of Muenster, Germany
  • 2017 Penn State University Division of Development and Alumni Relations Outstanding Support A ward
  • 2017 Patton Lecture in Insect Physiology. Cornell University. Department of Entomology.
  • 2016 Alex and Jessie C. Black Award for Excellence in Research in the College of Agricultural Sciences, Penn State
  • 2016 Plenary Speaker, The 7th European Congress of Apidology, CLUJ-NAPOCA, Romania
  • 2013 James I. Hambleton Award, Eastern Apicultural Society of North America
  • 2012 Distinguished Alumni Speaker. Department of Entomology, University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign.
  • 2011 Keynote Speaker. International Society for Chemical Ecology Annual Meeting. Burnaby, BC, Canada
  • 2011 Honorary Member, Golden Key International Honor Society
  • 2010 Plenary Speaker. 16th Congress of the International Society for the Study of Social Insects. Copenhagen, DK
  • 2009 Harbaugh Faculty Scholars Program Award for Excellence in Teaching & Learning
  • 2008 NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award
  • 2005 NCSU Faculty Research and Professional Development Award
  • 2001 Thomas T. Hoopes Prize in Teaching
  • 1998,2000 Harvard University Certificate of Distinction in Teaching
  • 1997-2000 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship
  • 1997 Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Counsel of Canada (NSERC) Postgraduate Scholarship (declined)
  • 1997 Fonds pour la formation de chercheurs et l'aide a la recherche (Fonds FCAR) (declined)
  • 1997 First-Class Honours in Bio-organic Chemistry
  • 1997 Major in Biology with Great Distinction
  • 1997 Certificate of Proficiency in German
  • 1997 Anne Molson Prize in Chemistry
  • 1996 Logan Scholarship in Biology
  • 1995 Frederic J. Lemaistre A ward in Chemistry
  • 1993 Science Horizons Scholarship
  • 1993 Boehringer Ingelheim Scientific Scholars Scholarship
  • 1993 Schlumberger-Doll Science Award
  • 1993 National Science Foundation Biology Olympics Award
  • 1993 Sobel Microscopes Award

References
  1. "Dr. Christina M. Grozinger, ESA Fellow (2018) | Entomological Society of America". www.entsoc.org. Retrieved 2019-12-19.
  2. Entomology, Distinguished Professor of; Director, Center for Pollinator Research; Pollinators; Bees, Honey; Insects, Social; Genomics; Immunity; Behavior; Physiology. "Christina Grozinger, Ph.D. (Department of Entomology)". Department of Entomology (Penn State University). Retrieved 2019-12-19.
  3. "Meet Christina Grozinger | Bee Culture". Retrieved 2019-12-19.
  4. "CHRISTINA M. GROZINGER" (PDF). Ento. 2018. Retrieved 2019-12-18.
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