Lab News

BeeCam is live!

We now have a livestream to one of our research bumblebee colonies!  Please visit the following to see them hard at work.  A simple Livestream account or log in via Facebook is necessary to view, but it’s worth it, trust us!

Welcome to our newest lab member, Federica!

Join us in a warm welcome (back) to Dr. Federica Lacasella!  Federica was a visiting graduate student researcher in the Gratton lab back in 2011 and now she has returned to our group as a postdoctoral researcher.  Kaitlin recently asked Federica some questions about her work and whether or not she’s happy to come back …

Filtering out the rubbish: A misleading representation of cranberry production by the popular press

  By Hannah Gaines Day In academia, we have a time honored approach to publication known as peer review. This is a rigorous process by which scientific papers are carefully and critically reviewed by an anonymous group of fellow scientists before being published in a scientific journal. Popular media, on the other hand, is not …

Welcome to our newest lab member, Christina!

The new year has brought a new face to the Gratton Lab: Dr. Christina Locke!    She recently defended her dissertation in the Forest & Wildlife Ecology Department in the lab of Dr. Adena Rissman and is now a postdoctoral researcher in the Gratton Lab, starting a project to help craft a pollinator plan for Wisconsin. …

Gratton lab heads to ESA in Portland, OR

  Recently, the Gratton lab flew out to Portland, OR to attend the 37th Annual Entomological Society of America Meeting. This was a wonderful opportunity to present our research to colleagues, catch up with former collaborators, and make new connections. Several of us presented research, including former Gratton lab members, Tim Meehan and Jamin Dreyer. …