Kennedy, Anissa

Curriculum Vitae

Education

Seit 2018	Doctorate of Science in Organismal and Molecular Evolution Biology (Mainz, Germany) Title: Genomic Basis of Honey Bee Foraging Behavior
2016 - 2018	Masters of Science in Biology University of North Carolina at Greensboro (Greensboro, NC USA) Title: “Increased Stress Resistance in Socially Manipulated Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) Workers

2013 - 2016

Bachelors of Science in Biology Winston-Salem State University (Winston-Salem, NC USA)

 

Work experience

Seit 2018	PhD Position, Johannes Gutenberg Universität (Mainz, Germany) Supervisors: Christoph Grüter and Susanne Foitzik Project: Genomic Basis of Honey Bee Foraging
2016 - 2018	Graduate Student Teaching Assistant Biology Department University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC USA
Juni - Juli 2015	Research Assistant: Summer Undergraduate Research Assistant Sustainable Technology Department University of Malaysia and Swinburne University Sarawak Campus, Kuching, Malaysia
2015 - 2016	Research Assistant Chemistry Department Winston-Salem State University, Winston-Salem, NC USA

2014 - 2016	Chemistry Supplemental Instructor Chemistry Department Winston-Salem State University, Winston-Salem, NC USA
Juni - August 2014	National Science Foundation Research Fellow Biology Department Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC USA
2012 - 2016	Research Assistant: Behavioral Ecology Biology Department Winston-Salem State University, Winston-Salem, NC USA

 

Forschungsinteressen

I am generally interested in the molecular and environmental mechanisms driving honey bee behavior and physiology outside of reproduction. The complexity of social insect societies makes them the perfect model to gain fundamental knowledge and explore research topics such as foraging behavior, stress resistance, and life history trade-offs. In my master’s I was able to explore stress resistance related to life history trade-offs to discover some non-reproductive roles of the egg yolk protein vitellogenin. During my PhD, I will focus on elucidating the genetic basis of foraging behavior in honey bee workers, specifically genetic components that determine the use of social vs private information.

Publikationen

Kennedy, A., Peng, T., Glaser, S. M., Linn, M., Foitzik, S., & Grüter, C. (2021). Use of waggle dance information in honey bees is linked to gene expression in the antennae, but not in the brain. Molecular Ecology, 30(11), 2676-2688.

 Kennedy, A., Herman, J., & Rueppell, O. (2021). Reproductive activation in honeybee (Apis mellifera) workers protects against abiotic and biotic stress. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 376(1823), 20190737.

Waiker, P., Baral, S., Kennedy, A. et al. (2018). Foraging and homing behavior of honey bee (Apis mellifera) during a total solar eclipse. The Science of Nature (2019) 106: 4.

Rueppell, O., Kennedy, A. (2019). Aging and Behavior in Honey Bees. In: Choe, J.C. (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior, (2nd ed.). vol. 4, pp. 709–715. Elsevier, Academic Press.