Keynote Speaker

Dr. Chelsea Cook, PHD

Chelsea Cook is currently an assistant professor at Marquette University in Milwaukee Wisconsin, where she has established a honey bee research lab focused on studying the social, physiological, and ecological mechanisms of collective behavior in honey bees. Previously, she was a National Institutes of Health postdoctoral fellow at Arizona State University, where she studied how individual learning behavior scales to shape foraging behavior in honey bees. She earned her PhD at the University of Colorado Boulder where she studied collective thermoregulation in honey bees. She also has experience as an entrepreneur, starting a hardware company that develops cold-storage tools for beekeepers and farmers. A major part of her mission as a professor is to make science accessible to all, so she has created courses in beekeeping and environmental biology that she teaches in prisons and addiction recovery facilities.