Hurd Lab
Functional epigenomics of genome–environment interactions in the honey bee (Apis mellifera)
Our research
We employ functional (epi)genomics to understand the mechanisms that mediate interactions between the genome and environment. Using the honey bee as a model organism, we integrate molecular biology, biochemistry, proteomics, metabolomics and (epi)genomic tools, combined with hands-on apiculture, to understand how nutrition dictates the development of three phenotypically distinct organisms from a single genome.