Dr. Kirsten Shoshanna Traynor

Profile

Academic positionLecturer, Assistant Professor, Researcher
Research fieldsSensory and Behavioural Biology,Ecology and Biodiversity of Animals and Ecosystems, Organismic Interactions,Communication Sciences
KeywordsApis mellifera, Varroa, Pesticides, animal behavior, pollination
Honours and awards

2018: College of Life Science Fellow, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin

2012: Fulbright Award

Current contact address

CountryGermany
CityStuttgart
InstitutionUniversität Hohenheim
InstituteLandesanstalt für Bienenkunde
Homepagehttps://bienenkunde.uni-hohenheim.de/

Host during sponsorship

Dr. Otto BoeckingInstitut für Bienenkunde Celle, Niedersächsisches Landesamt für Verbraucherschutz und Lebensmittelsicherheit, Celle
Start of initial sponsorship01/09/2006

Programme(s)

2006German Chancellor Fellowship Programme for prospective leaders from the United States

Publications (partial selection)

2024Treder, Manuel and Joedecke, Vera and Schweikert, Karsten and Rosenkranz, Peter and Ruttensperger, Ute and Traynor, Kirsten: Vertical greening systems serve as effective means to promote pollinators: Experimental comparison of vertical and horizontal plantings. In: Landscape and Urban Planning, 243, 2024, 104951
2023Fisher, Adrian and Tadei, Rafaela and Berenbaum, May and Nieh, James and Siviter, Harry and Crall, James and Glass, Jordan R and Muth, Felicity and Liao, Ling-Hsiu and Traynor, Kirsten and others: Breaking the cycle: Reforming pesticide regulation to protect pollinators. In: BioScience, 73, 2023, 808--813
2023Treder, Manuel and Müller, Marcus and Fellner, Larissa and Traynor, Kirsten and Rosenkranz, Peter: Defined exposure of honey bee colonies to simulated radiofrequency electromagnetic fields (RF-EMF): Negative effects on the homing ability, but not on brood development or longevity. In: Science of The Total Environment, 896, 2023, 165211
2023Siviter, Harry and Fisher, A and Baer, B and Brown, MJF and Camargo, IF and Cole, J and Le Conte, Yves and Dorin, B and Evans, JD and Farina, W and others: Protecting pollinators and our food supply: understanding and managing threats to pollinator health. In: Insectes Sociaux, 70, 2023, 5--16
2021Traynor, Kirsten S and Tosi, Simone and Rennich, Karen and Steinhauer, Nathalie and Forsgren, Eva and Rose, Robyn and Kunkel, Grace and Madella, Shayne and Lopez, Dawn and Eversole, Heather and others: Pesticides in honey bee colonies: Establishing a baseline for real world exposure over seven years in the USA. In: Environmental Pollution, 279, 2021, 116566
2021Traynor, Kirsten S and Lamas, Zachary S and others: Social disruption: Sublethal pesticides in pollen lead to Apis mellifera queen events and brood loss. In: Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, 214, 2021, 112105
2021Wild, Benjamin and Dormagen, David M and Zachariae, Adrian and Smith, Michael L and Traynor, Kirsten S and Brockmann, Dirk and Couzin, Iain D and Landgraf, Tim: Social networks predict the life and death of honey bees. In: Nature communications, 12, 2021, 1110
2020El Agrebi, No{\"e}mie and Traynor, Kirsten and Wilmart, Olivier and Tosi, Simone and Leinartz, Laurent and Danneels, Ellen and de Graaf, Dirk C and Saegerman, Claude: Pesticide and veterinary drug residues in Belgian beeswax: occurrence, toxicity, and risk to honey bees. In: Science of the Total Environment, 745, 2020, 141036
2020Traynor, Kirsten S and Mondet, Fanny and de Miranda, Joachim R and Techer, Maeva and Kowallik, Vienna and Oddie, Melissa AY and Chantawannakul, Panuwan and McAfee, Alison: Varroa destructor: A complex parasite, crippling honey bees worldwide. In: Trends in parasitology, 36, 2020, 592--606
2017Vanengelsdorp, Dennis and Traynor, Kirsten S and Andree, Michael and Lichtenberg, Elinor M and Chen, Yanping and Saegerman, Claude and Cox-Foster, Diana L: Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) and bee age impact honey bee pathophysiology. In: PLoS One, 12, 2017, e0179535
2017Traynor, Kirsten S and Wang, Ying and Brent, Colin S and Amdam, Gro V and Page Jr, Robert E: Young and old honeybee (Apis mellifera) larvae differentially prime the developmental maturation of their caregivers. In: Animal Behaviour, 124, 2017, 193--202
2016Traynor, Kirsten S and Pettis, Jeffery S and Tarpy, David R and Mullin, Christopher A and Frazier, James L and Frazier, Maryann and Vanengelsdorp, Dennis: In-hive Pesticide Exposome: Assessing risks to migratory honey bees from in-hive pesticide contamination in the Eastern United States. In: Scientific reports, 6, 2016, 33207
2016Traynor, KS and Rennich, K and Forsgren, E and Rose, R and Pettis, J and Kunkel, G and Madella, S and Evans, J and Lopez, D and vanEngelsdorp, D: Multiyear survey targeting disease incidence in US honey bees. In: Apidologie, 47, 2016, 325--347
2015Seitz, Nicola and Traynor, Kirsten S. and Steinhauer, Nathalie and Rennich, Karen and Wilson, Michael E. and Ellis, James and Rose, Robyn and Tarpy, David R. and Sagili, Ramesh R. and Caron, Dewey M. and others: A national survey of managed honey bee 2014--2015 annual colony losses in the USA. In: Journal of Apicultural Research, 54, 2015, 292--304
2015Traynor, Kirsten S and Le Conte, Yves and Page Jr, Robert E: Age matters: pheromone profiles of larvae differentially influence foraging behaviour in the honeybee, Apis mellifera. In: Animal behaviour, 99, 2015, 1--8
2014Traynor, Kirsten S and Le Conte, Yves and Page, Robert E: Queen and young larval pheromones impact nursing and reproductive physiology of honey bee (Apis mellifera) workers. In: Behavioral ecology and sociobiology, 68, 2014, 2059--2073
2009Simon, Arne and Traynor, Kirsten and Santos, Kai and Blaser, Gisela and Bode, Udo and Molan, Peter: Medical honey for wound care—still the ‘latest resort’?. In: Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, 6, 2009, 165--173
2008Bienefeld, Kaspar and Ehrhardt, Klaus and Reinhardt, Fritz and Traynor, Kirsten S: Bee Breeding Around the World--Noticeable Success in Honey Bee Selection After the Introduction of Genetic Evaluation Using BLUP. In: American bee journal, 148, 2008, 739--742