Brief Bio: I am a postdoctoral Research Fellow in Environmental Systems Biology at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) in the Land and Water business unit – in Australia. Previous experience working in nutrigenomics in livestock before making the switch into honey bee health and environmental systems biology.
Research Interest: I am particularly interested in how organisms and microbial communities respond to stressors in their environment and using multi-omics and machine learning approaches to better understand molecular mechanisms, predict responses and develop interventions.

systems biology, ecotoxicology, honey bee, multi-omics, neonicotinoids

Honey bee ecotoxicogenomics

Ecotoxicogenomics is an emerging discipline that aims to link phenotypes to environmental perturbations through characterizing multi-omic changes in biomolecule profiles. This presentation explores the value of using a multi-omics approach to ecotoxicology and honey bee health. We exposed larvae to sublethal concentrations of a commonly used neonicotinoid pesticide (Imidacloprid) and characterized the resulting molecular changes through integration of transcriptomic, proteomic and metabolomic data. This approach enabled us to connect molecular events to developmental and metabolic impacts of sublethal pesticide stress in larvae that may have longer term consequences for honey bee colony health.