HOW A HIGH-SCHOOL BEEKEEPER MADE HER WAY TO USDA HONEY BEE RESEARCHER

Elizabeth (Liz) Walsh, Ph.D., is a research scientist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service, in the Honey Bee Breeding, Genetics, and Physiology Research unit in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. [...]Ph.D. at Texas A&M University, completed in 2019 under guidance of Juliana Rangel, Ph.D., Walsh explored the impact of miticide exposure in immature honey bee queens. At USDA-ARS, she is currently working on various projects that include examining aggression due to environmental stressors, different responses within various honey bee stocks, drone reproductive health and biology, queen reproductive health after stressor exposure, and honey bee variation in responses to pathogens. Do you have any tips on how you manage your work-life balance? Because so much of my work is centered around a field season, I know that I have intense times of the year and that Ill have less intense times of the year.