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The Nieh Lab

James Nieh is an associate professor in the Division of Biological Sciences at UC San Diego. He is interested in the evolution of multimodal communication in social bees and is currently studying how olfactory eavesdropping may have influenced different food location communication strategies in stingless bees. A second focus is on olfactory, tactile, acoustic, and thermal signals or cues that are involved in foraging and food alertment or recruitment in the social bees The goal is to develop a greater understanding of potentially homologous or convergent communication signals within the social bees through studies mapping communication traits onto social bee phylogenies. He received his BA from Harvard in 1991 and his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1997. He completed a NSF-NATO postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Würzburg, Germany and was a Harvard Junior Fellow from 1998-2000.

Additional Resources:

Jan 21, 2009 - Dr. Nieh in a Live Interview for "These Days" on KPBS radio.