People

Silas Bossert

PhD Student

I am an evolutionary biologist specialized in the biology of bees. I study the natural history of bees and wasps as a grad student in Bryan Danforth’s lab. My research includes methodological studies on bioinformatics of phylogenomics and next generation sequence data. I also work on less code-intensive empirical studies, like the reconstruction of the evolutionary history of the large sweat bee subfamily Nomiinae. These are pretty cool and understudied bees!

I hold a Master’s degree in Zoology from the University of Vienna, where I studied the phylogeny and ecology of the Bombus lucorum complex under supervision of Harald Krenn. Feel free to check out my website!

Research Interests

Evolution, phylogenetics, bioinformatics, life-history transitions, landscape ecology

sb2346@cornell.edu