The Sumner Lab

Insect Research Group, University College London

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    • Seirian Sumner
    • Christopher Wyatt
    • Cintia Akemi Oi
    • Lewis Revely
    • Owen Corbett
    • Romuald Tcheutchoua
    • Iona Cunningham-Eurich
    • Hayley McMechan
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      • Emeline Favreau
      • Alessandro Cini
      • Benjamin Taylor
      • Robin Southon
      • Adam Devenish
      • Sandra Moreno
      • Daisy Taylor
      • Emily Bell
      • Sam Duckerin
      • Patrick Kennedy
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  • Lessons From the Jungle

    This summer I was fortunate enough to be able to join the Sumner lab for a field season out in Trinidad. My role was as a research assistant as part of a four-person team working on two projects looking at species of tropical social wasps. This first was examining

    News and Updates
    21 October 2015
  • “Why fly half way across the world to Trinidad when there are plenty of wasps drowning in my lemonade in Peckham?”

    ‘Why fly half way across the world to Trinidad when there are plenty of wasps drowning in my lemonade in Peckham?’ was a fairly reasonable question I was asked by a friend. Trinidad may not initially seem a prime location for conducting field work, yet it is one of the regions with the greatest diversity […]

    News and Updates
    25 September 2015
  • What can Swarm-Founding Wasps tell us about the Evolution of Sociality?

    I am an MSci student working on my dissertation project in the Sumner lab. My project looked at caste differences and aspects of the colony cycle in a species of Swarm-Founding wasp native to Trinidad; Metapolybia cingulata.

    News and Updates
    26 May 2015
  • Lonely Potter

    VIDEO Check out this time-lapse video from my 2014 field season of a busy potter wasp constructing a pot in the Arima Valley, Trinidad.

    News and Updates
    27 April 2015
  • From Brussels Sprouts to Brachiosaurs – our science communication isn’t always about wasps!

    Many members of our lab group are pretty big on science communication, and needless to say I am no exception. I am a firm believer that science can, and should, be made accessible to people of all ages. With a bit of hard work we can get people to think differently about the world they […]

    News and Updates
    8 April 2015
  • Effects of Agrochemicals on Ants – Just the Tip of the Ant Mound?

    We are a pair of undergraduate students working on our dissertation project in the Sumner Lab. For our project we decided to study the effects that agrochemicals can have on two native UK ant species. Non-target organisms can often become victims of exposure to agricultural chemicals, with the most studied example being the common honeybee […]

    News and Updates
    27 February 2015
  • The Lord of the Bees & The Microcolony Revolution

    Welcome to the Sumner Lab Blog! I am a new PhD student in the lab and my project is focussing on using social network analysis to assess how certain pesticides might be affecting social interactions within bumblebee colonies and how that could impact colony performance. One of the early challenges facing me is learning how […]

    News and Updates
    9 January 2015
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RECENT Publications

Cunningham-Eurich, I., Kontou, D., Yordanova, M., Maeda-Obregon, A., Favreau, E., Wang, J. et al. 2023. Using citizen science data to assess the population genetic structure of the common yellowjacket wasp, Vespula vulgaris. Insect Molecular Biology, 1–14 Favreau E, Cini A, Taylor D. et al. 2023. Putting hornets on the genomic map. Sci Rep 13, 6232 Sumner S, Favreau E, Geist K, Toth A L, Rehan S M. 2023. Molecular […]

Full publication list here

rECENT POSTS

  • Eco-Flow – A bioinformatics ecosystem for agri-ecology

    22 November 2023
  • Citizen science for the win: how we used wasps collected by people in their back gardens for a genetic study

    14 September 2023
  • Kendra Edwards: Global Social Wasp Distributions

    14 July 2023

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