Alison McAfee, PhD

Island girl turned biochemist. Postdoc @NCState, @UBC. #bees and #scicomm. Bylines @sciam, @beejournal, @ConversationCA. 2021 #LOrealFWIS laureate

[Alison McAfee, PhD @ali_mcafee]

If you want a break from election news, I wrote a thing for @sciam about the bad side of beekeeping. @SaveWildBees https://t.co/ZVXkLADkER

[Alison McAfee, PhD @ali_mcafee]

@adamware1134 Nope, I am but a lowly RA myself!

[Alison McAfee, PhD @ali_mcafee]

We found that virus infections in queen bees inhibits egg laying, shrinks ovaries, and predicts supersedure. Looking forward to talking about this research at ABRC this week, along with some new stuff about viruses & queen pheromones! https://t.co/FgEBUq3Tcj

[Alison McAfee, PhD @ali_mcafee]

Our newest paper: Climatic factors predict honey bee virus abundance and prevalence, but not always in the ways we expected https://t.co/cfzmMblX3F

[Alison McAfee, PhD @ali_mcafee]

My foray outside the world of honey bees continues. Our new paper is out, comparing proteomes across reproductive stage transitions of ant, honey bee, and bumble bee queens.

https://t.co/JpBuEnA6Lm

[Alison McAfee, PhD @ali_mcafee]

@ubcmsl @ubcscience @UBCMicroImmuno Why is this lab so clean 😂

[Alison McAfee, PhD @ali_mcafee]

Just tried a phenol-based throat spray (for numbing) and it feels like I have a mouth full of Trizol 🥴

[Nadia Tsvetkov @NadiaTsvet]

A great collaborative effort to collect remarkable data to find the effects of climate on honeybee health.
@ubc @YorkUScience

https://t.co/fK7aWsJaw0

[Alison McAfee, PhD @ali_mcafee]

That horrifying moment when you spot a typo in that graphical abstract you made hastily at the end and you wish even harder that graphical abstracts were not a thing https://t.co/MmSyDQqDj8

[Alison McAfee, PhD @ali_mcafee]

Happy to see our new paper on climatic predictors of honey bee pathogens out in the world in @PLOSClimate.
We used a dataset of hundreds of samples from across Canada (project @BeeCsi) to see how temp, precip, and wind predict pathogen abundance https://t.co/1LaU7pvvLK

[Alison McAfee, PhD @ali_mcafee]

@petercoffey @EntsocAmerica I have not

[Alison McAfee, PhD @ali_mcafee]

@grizzlygirl87 @pchrysafis Ooo I failed!

[Alison McAfee, PhD @ali_mcafee]

@grizzlygirl87 @pchrysafis Im going with grizzly. That face looks too dished to be a blackie to me and the hump/ears are hard to judge at this angle …

[Alison McAfee, PhD @ali_mcafee]

@SaveWildBees It’s just the frames, not a box. Normally 20% of frames are replaced each year

[Alison McAfee, PhD @ali_mcafee]

@SaveWildBees Or just replacing old equipment

[Alison McAfee, PhD @ali_mcafee]

Our review on honey bee pathogen and pesticide resistance is out in the world in Physiology. https://t.co/4tyiPqaszm

[Alison McAfee, PhD @ali_mcafee]

@ManometCenter @JeffreyMWard thought of you

[Alison McAfee, PhD @ali_mcafee]

Happy to see this getting some attention. Last spring, I saw one location in the Lower Mainland with so many queens emerging it was hard not to step on them. It was insane. https://t.co/jGIgYJNf2U

[Alison McAfee, PhD @ali_mcafee]

@LexiHoopman Congratulations!

[Alison McAfee, PhD @ali_mcafee]

@DaveDenlinger Was it … good? I’ve always been curious about those!