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Affiliated Faculty Research in Biology

  • James Nieh

    Dr. James Nieh’s research focuses on foraging communication and behavior in social bees and honey bee health – with specific interest in the selective pressures that have shaped behavior and the evolution of social communication, particularly referential communication, in highly social bees.

    jnieh@ucsd.edu | website

  • Nicholas Spitzer

    Dr. Nicholas Spitzer’s work focuses on understanding the roles of electrical activity in the assembly of the nervous system; specifically, by analyzing the effects of calcium transients on neuronal differentiation and determining the molecular mechanisms by which they exert these effects.

    nspitzer@ucsd.edu website