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CV (bee-specific)

PROFESSOR DAVE SHUTLER

Graduate student supervision

CM Little (MSc candidate), Immune responses of honeybees to parasitism.

L Charbonneau (MSc candidate), Effects of parasitism on honeybee learning.

M Colwell (MSc candidate), Nutrition for honey bees in commercial crops.

Frost E, MSc 2010 (lead supervisor).  Learning and memory in honeybees relative to miticides.

GR Williams (PhD candidate), Competition between Nosema species.

 

Undergraduate student supervision (BSc (Honours))

Deveau D, 2011.  Age, learning, and memory in honey bees.

Colwell MJ, 2010.  Undertaking behaviour in honey bees.

Sampson MA, 2008.  Nosema parasites in bees & wasps.

Taylor BA, 2008.  Deformed wing virus in honey bees.

Russell AS, 2007.  The importance of flower symmetry to nectarivorous insects.

Institutional Affiliation

Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada, B4P 2R6

Research Interests

  • honey bees
  • parasites
  • immunity
  • cognition and behaviour
  • birds

Research Area in COLOSS

 My lab studies effects of parasites on a variety of organisms.  With respect to honeybees, we are interested in physiological (e.g., immune investment) and behavioural effects (e.g., memory) of parasites on honey bees, and how these interact with the pesticides to which bees are exposed.

 

List of Publications

Frost E, Shutler D, Hillier NK, Effects of cold immobilization and recovery period on honeybee learning, memory, and responsiveness to sucrose.  J Insect Physiol, Tentative acceptance May 2011, IP-D-11-00087.

Williams GR, Shutler D, Little CM, Burger-Maclellan K, Rogers REL, 2010.  The microsporidian Nosema ceranae, the antibiotic Fumagilin-B®, and western honey bee (Apis mellifera) colony strength.  Apidologie 41:  (m09131 accepted Jan 2010).

Williams GR, Head K, Rogers REL, Shutler D, Burger-MacLellan K, 2010.  Parasitic mites and microsporidians in managed western honey bee colonies in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.  Can Ent 142:584-588.

Williams GR,Tarpy DR, vanEngelsdorp D, Chauzat M-P, Cox-Foster DL, Delaplane KS, Neumann P, Pettis JS, Rogers REL, Shutler D, 2010.  Colony Collapse Disorder in context.  BioEssays 32:845-846.

Burgher-MacLellan KL, Williams GR, Shutler D, MacKenzie K, Rogers REL, 2010.  Optimization of duplex real-time PCR with melting curve analysis for detecting the microsporidian parasites Nosema apis and Nosema ceranae in Apis mellifera.  Can Ent 142:271-283.

Williams GR, Shutler D, Rogers REL, 2010.  Effects at Nearctic north-temperate latitudes of indoor versus outdoor overwintering on the microsporidium Nosema ceranae and western honey bees (Apis mellifera).  J Invertebr Pathol 104:4-7.

Williams GR, Rogers REL, Kalkstein AL, Taylor BA, Shutler D, Ostiguy N, 2009.  Deformed wing virus in western honey bees (Apis mellifera) from Atlantic Canada and the first description of an overtly-infected emerging queen.  J Invertebr Pathol 101:77-79. 

Shafer ABA, Williams GR, Shutler D, Rogers REL, Stewart DT, 2009.  Cophylogeny of Nosema (Microsporidia:  Nosematidae) and bees (Hymenoptera:  Apidae) suggests both cospeciation and a host-switch.  J Parasitol 95:198-203. 

Williams GR, Sampson MA, Shutler D, Rogers REL, 2008.  Does fumagillin control the recently-detected invasive parasite, Nosema ceranae, in Western honey bees (Apis mellifera)?  J Invertebr Pathol 99:342-344. 

Williams GR, Shafer ABA, Rogers REL, Shutler D, Stewart DT, 2008.  First detection of Nosema ceranae, a microsporidian parasite of European honey bees (Apis mellifera), in Canada and central U.S.A.  J Invertebr Pathol 97:189-192.

 

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Much more here:  http://www.acadiau.ca/~dshutler/homepage.htm

 

 

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