Gabriela Quinlan
NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellow
website: gmquinlan.weebly.com
Education
2020 PhD Entomology and Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, Michigan State University
2015 BS Biology, North Carolina State University
Research Interests
I use honey bees as a study system for analyzing ecological patterns across scales, from genes to the environment. I am interested in uncovering mechanistic drivers of pollinator stressors to determine evidence-based best management and conservation practices. My PhD work focused on honey bee nutrition, within which I studied individual bee physiology and disease, colony dynamics, foraging and habitat restoration, and landscape composition. During my post doc I will be expanding upon this work, analyzing broad scale landscape effects on colony weight dynamics, social regulation of foraging behavior, colony age-based macronutrient foraging, and environmental drivers of pollen macronutrient content.
Publications
Bloom, E.H., Graham, K.K., Haan, N.L., Heck, A.R., Gut, L.J., Landis, D.A., Milbrath, M.O., Quinlan, G.M., Wilson, J.K., Zhang, Y., Szendrei, Z., Isaacs, R., 2021. Responding to the US national pollinator plan: a case study in Michigan. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment n/a. https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.2430
Quinlan, G., Milbrath, M., Otto, C., Smart, A., Iwanowicz, D., Cornman, R.S., Isaacs, R., 2021. Honey bee foraged pollen reveals temporal changes in pollen protein content and changes in forager choice for abundant versus high protein flowers. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 322, 107645. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2021.107645
Quinlan, G.M., Milbrath, M.O., Otto, C.R.V., Isaacs, R., 2021. Farmland in U.S. Conservation Reserve Program has unique floral composition that promotes bee summer foraging. Basic and Applied Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.baae.2021.08.011
Quinlan, G.M., Milbrath, M.O., Otto, C.R.V., Isaacs, R., 2021. Honey bee (Apis mellifera) colonies benefit from grassland/ pasture while bumble bee (Bombus impatiens) colonies in the same landscapes benefit from non-corn/soybean cropland. PLOS ONE 16, e0257701. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0257701
Awards
2022 National Science Foundation-Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology
2021 Entomology Society Program Enhancement Funds