Lab Resources

Lab Equipment and Resources

• Infrared CO2 analyzer (LI-COR LI-7000)
• FoxBox Respirometry System (Sable Systems International)
• Macro focus-stacking imaging rig (Canon + Stackshot)
• Microscopy stations (Martin Microscope, Leica, Olympus)
• Video recording and image analysis stations
• Insect field collection equipment
• Insect collection storage and curation
• High precision analytical microbalance

Map of Social Insect Research Labs

• Crowd-sourced map of social insect research labs worldwide https://www.zeemaps.com/map?group=708663

Ant sites

• Worldwide Ant Distribution Maps http://antmaps.org/
• Ant Web https://antweb.org/
• Ant Wiki http://www.antwiki.org/wiki/Main_Page
• Discover Ants http://discoverants.com/
• Harvard Forest Ant Data (eg HF147) http://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/ellison/field-guide-ants-new-england http://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu:8080/exist/apps/datasets/showData.html?id=hf147
• Museum of Comparative Zoology https://mczbase.mcz.harvard.edu/SpecimenSearch.cfm

BrainScoop Insect Videos

• Dissecting Ants (with Corrie Moreau) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0HGz4RPLwc
• Romantic Ants (with Corrie Moreau) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWWw3SHCIAw&t=3s
• Insect Adventure, Part One (with James Trager) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNphZnLmUDM&t=78s
• How to Pin an Insect (with Gracen Brilmyer) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MT5VGlSCtg4
• Beetles, Mites, Cockroaches Oh My! Insect Collection Tour https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgUP3x8_smY&t=231s
• Insect Cribs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3zoZ_1fcVA

Great Talks

• Deborah Gordon: What ants teach us about the brain, cancer and the internet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aL00a3sfnYM
• Simon Levin: Collective Phenomena, Collective Motion, and Collective Action in Ecological Systems https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mw1HD8Kwaco
• Andy Yang and Naomi Pierce: Theories, Things, and Creatures https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3cBsni3GuY
• Rob Dunn: The Future of Discovery https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jkc4Zbux4Go&t=14s
• Bonnie Bassler: How Bacteria “Talk” https://www.ted.com/talks/bonnie_bassler_on_how_bacteria_communicate
• E. O. Wilson: Of Ants and Men (PBS) http://www.pbs.org/program/eo-wilson/

Societies

• Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology http://www.sicb.org
• American Physiological Society http://www.the-aps.org/
• International Union for the Study of Social Insects http://www.iussi.org/
• Rhode Island Natural History Survey http://rinhs.org/
• Cambridge Entomolobical Club http://eciton.org/