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Ben Pyenson

Assistant Professor
Biology, College of Arts and Sciences

Science Building 329
bpyenson@adelphi.edu

 
General Information

Diplomas/Degrees

Diplomas/Degrees

PhD, Arizona State University (2022)

MSc, McGill University (2012)

BS, Haverford College (2009)

Professional Experience

Professional Experience

Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Toronto              2024-2025

Postdoctoral Fellow, York University                                                                          2022-2024

Project Coordinator, Clinical and Health Informatics, McGill University           2012-2014

Personal Statement

Personal Statement

As an Assistant Professor of Molecular Neurobiology, I use tools from neurophysiology, computational ethology, genomics, and single-cell transcriptomics in a comparative framework to understand behavioral evolution. Similar behavioral decisions guide an insect’s task specialization in a group and its ecological specialization on a resource. The objective of my research program is thus to understand how sensory systems evolved to facilitate task and ecological specialization.

I focus on two major research questions: how individuals evolved task-specialization in a society, and how insects evolved to become resource specialists. I studied the cooperative behaviors of bees and of ants during my first postdoctoral fellowship at York University in Canada and my PhD in the Social Insect Research Group at Arizona State University funded by a Post-Graduate Scholarship of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), respectively. As the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology’s Postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto, I developed an independent research program to understand the sensory and cognitive adaptations that accompany the evolution of ecological specialization in bees and flies. To investigate the molecular basis of behavior in bees, I collaborate with colleagues from the US Department of Agriculture and other institutions. I am also organizing a symposium for the upcoming conference of the International Union for the Study of Social Insects in Germany in August.

I welcome interactions with Adelphi students, faculty, and staff interested in participating in my research program. I am planning to teach courses in the Department of Biology related to neuroscience, evolution, animal behavior, physiology, and anatomy.

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