Bio

Nina is a postdoctoral research fellow at IRES in the WoRCS lab with Dr. Claire Kremen. Nina is a disease ecologist and entomologist interested in how crop pollination events affect viruses in both managed and native bees. She received her PhD in Integrative Biology from the University of California, Berkeley with Dr. Michael Boots. Her research focused on the viral dynamics of bees in Northern California and the evolution of parasite resistance in honey bee breeding and management. Prior to starting at UBC, she completed a postdoctoral appointment at UC Berkeley, focusing on the microbial community of the imperiled western bumble bee (Bombus occidentalis). At IRES, she will be part of the Perennial Ecosystem Restoration for Carbon Sequestration in Canadian Agricultural Landscapes (PERCS) project, where she is investigating how agricultural diversification at farms in BC influences pollinator diseases.