The Sumner Lab

Insect Research Group, University College London

  • Our Group
    • The Sumner Lab
    • Seirian Sumner
    • Cintia Akemi Oi
    • Christopher Wyatt
    • Benjamin Taylor
    • Alex Cerqueira de Araujo
    • Fernando Duarte Frutos
    • Iona Cunningham-Eurich
    • Romuald Tcheutchoua
    • Idris Adams
    • Femi E Benny
    • Caroline Chandler
    • Left The Nest
      • Owen Corbett
      • Lewis Revely
      • Emeline Favreau
      • Alessandro Cini
      • Robin Southon
      • Adam Devenish
      • Sandra Moreno
      • Daisy Taylor
      • Emily Bell
      • Sam Duckerin
      • Patrick Kennedy
  • Our Research
    • Themes
      • Evolution
      • Genomics and Bioinformatics
      • Mechanisms
      • Ecology
    • Lab Publications
    • Student Projects
    • The Big Wasp Survey
    • Eco-Flow
    • Wasp Genomes
      • Yellow-legged Asian Hornet genome
      • Stenogastrinae – hover wasps
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  • Sreya Magar: Evolution of Prey Selection and Life History Traits in Sphecidae Wasps 

    UCL Msc Student Sreya Magar on her MSc Research Project with the Sumner Lab 

    Student Projects
    23 January 2025
  • Tiffene Larose: Trait Analysis, Motion Tracking and Spatial Use in Polistes Wasps

    UCL BSc student Tiffene Larose on her summer internship and final year project with the Sumner Lab

    Student Projects
    19 September 2024
  • Kendra Edwards: Global Social Wasp Distributions

    UCL MSc student Kendra Edwards on her MSc Research Project with the Sumner Lab

    Student Projects
    14 July 2023
  • Lucy Weatherley: Signal Detection Theory and Prey Specialisms in Wasps

    MSci student Lucy Weatherley on her undergraduate literature review and current MSci research project with the Sumner Lab

    Student Projects
    1 March 2023
  • Zann Teo Jiexin: Population Differentiation of Ammophila Wasps

    Visiting undergraduate student researcher Zann Teo Jiexin from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, on her Honours thesis placement with the Sumner Lab

    Student Projects
    9 February 2023
  • David Blahout: Provisioning Strategies in Sand Wasps and Wasp Pollination Syndromes

    MSci student David Blahout on his undergraduate research placement and current MSci research project with the Sumner Lab

    Student Projects
    10 November 2022

RECENT Publications

2025 Devenish, A.J.M., Newton, R.J., Midgley, J.J., Colville, L., Bridle, J., Sumner, S. 2025. Mutualistic interactions facilitate invasive species spread. Functional Ecology, 39 (1), 254-267. 2024 Toth, A.L., Wyatt, C.D.R., Masonbrink, R.E., Geist, K.S., Fortune, R., Scott, S.B., Favreau, E., Rehan, S.M., Sumner, S., Gardiner, M.M., Sivakoff, F.S. 2025. New genomic resources inform transcriptomic responses […]

Full publication list here

rECENT POSTS

  • Wasp Picnic Survey 2025

    22 July 2025
  • Where hornets are Queens and not pests: a journey into the Land of Hills 

    4 June 2025
  • Jéferson Pedrosa dos Santos – on his six month project with the Sumner Lab

    23 January 2025

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