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1 Department of Entomology GREG J. HUNT Purdue University West Lafayette, IN POSITIONS Associate Professor, Purdue University, 5/04 - current. Assistant Professor, Purdue University, 1/02-5/04. Honey Bee Specialist, Purdue University, 7/96-1/02. Adjunct Asst. Professor, Purdue University, 4/95-7/96. Research Assistant, Univ. of California, Davis, 12/89-4/95. Research Specialist, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, 1/85-11/89. Research Assistant, Pennsylvania State University, 9/81-6/84. EDUCATION Ph.D. Entomology, University of California, Davis, M.S. Plant Pathology, The Pennsylvania State University, B.S. Biology, cum laude, John Carroll University, RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS ghunt@purdue.edu Ammons AD, Hunt GJ Identification of quantitative trait loci and candidate genes influencing ethanol sensitivity in honey bees. Behav Genet 38: Ammons AD, Hunt GJ Characterization of honey bee sensitivity to ethanol vapor and its correlation with aggression. Alcohol 42: Webster TC, Thacker EM, Pomper K, Lowe J, Hunt G Nosema apis infection in honey bee (Apis mellifera) queens. J Apic Res, In Press. Uribe-Rubio JL, Guzmán-Novoa E, Vásquez-Peláez CG, Hunt GJ, Genotype, task specialization and environment influence the stinging response threshold of individual honeybees to electrical stimulation. Behav Genet, In Press. Patel A, Fondrk MK, Kaftanoglu O, Emore C, Hunt G, Frederick K, Amdam GV, The making of a queen: TOR pathway is a key player in diphenic caste development. PLOS One 2, e509. Hunt GJ, Flight and fight: A comparative view of the neurophysiology and genetics of honey bee defensive behavior. J Insect Physiol 53: Hunt GJ, Amdam GV, Schlipalius D, Emore C, Sardesai N, Williams CE, Rueppell O, Guzmán-Novoa E, Arechavaleta-Velasco M, Chandra S, Fondrk MK, Beye M, Page Jr. RE, Behavioral genomics of honeybee foraging and nest defense. Naturwissenschaften 94: The Honey Bee Genome Sequencing Consortium, Insights into social insects from the genome of the honey bee, Apis mellifera. Nature 443: Beye M, Gattermeier I, Hasselmann M, Gempe T, Scheioett M, Baines JF, Schlipalius D, Mougel F, Emore C, Rueppell O, Sirviö A, Guzmán-Novoa

2 E, Hunt G, Solignac M, Page Jr. RE, 2006 Exceptionally high levels of recombination across the honey bee genome. Genome Res 16: Rueppell O, Chandra S, Pankiw T, Fondrk MK, Beye M, Hunt GJ, Page RE, 2006 The genetic architecture of sucrose responsiveness in the honey bee (Apis mellifera L.). Genetics 172: Guzmán-Novoa E, Hunt GJ, Page RE, Uribe-Rubio JL, Prieto-Merlos D, Becerra- Guzmán F, 2005 Paternal effects on the defensive behavior of honey bees. J Hered 63(3):1-5. Arechavaleta-Velasco ME, Hunt GJ, 2004 Binary trait loci that influence honey bee guarding behavior. Ann Entomol Soc Am 97: Guzmán-Novoa E, Hunt GJ, Uribe-Rubio JL and D Prieto-Merlos, 2004 Genotypic effects of honey bee (Apis mellifera) defensive behavior at the individual and colony levels: The relationship of guarding, pursuing and stinging. Apidologie 35: Breed MD, Hunt GJ, Guzmán-Novoa E, 2004 Defensive behavior of honey bees: organization, genetics and comparisons with other bees. Invited review: Annu Rev Entomol 49: Webster TC, Pomper KW, Hunt GJ, Thacker EM, Jones SC, 2004 Nosema apis infection of queen and worker Apis mellifera. Apidologie 35: Hunt GJ, Guzmán-Novoa E, Uribe-Rubio JL, Prieto-Merlos D, 2003 Genotype by environment interactions in honey bee guarding behavior. Anim Behav 66: Lobo N, Ton L, Emore C, Romero-Severson J, Hill C, Hunt GJ, Collins FH, 2003 Genomic analysis in the sting-2 quantitative trait locus for defensive behavior in the honey bee, Apis mellifera. Genome Res 13: Guzmán-Novoa E, Prieto-Merlos D, Uribe-Rubio JL, Hunt GJ, 2003 Relative reliability of four field assays to test defensive behaviour of honey bees (Apis mellifera). J Apic Res 42: Arechavaleta-Velasco, ME, Hunt GJ, Emore C, 2003 Quantitative trait loci that influence the expression of guarding and stinging behaviors of individual honey bees. Behav Genet 33: Arechavaleta-Velasco ME, Hunt GJ, 2003 Genotypic variation in the expression of guarding behavior and the role of guards in the defensive response of honey bee colonies. Apidologie 34: Edwards CR, Gerber CK, Hunt GJ, 2003 A Laboratory Study to Evaluate the Toxicity of the Mediterranean Fruit Fly, Ceratitis capitata, Bait, Success 0.02 CB, to the Honey Bee, Apis mellifera. Apidologie 34: Uribe-Rubio JL, Guzmán-Novoa E, Hunt GJ, Correa-Benítez A, Zozaya-Rubio JA, 2003 The effect of africanization on honey production, defensive behavior and size of honeybees (Apis mellifera L.) in the mexican high plateau. Revista Veterinario Mexico 34: Hunt GJ, Wood KV, Guzmán-Novoa E, Lee HD, Rothwell AP, Bonham CC, 2003 Discovery of 3-methyl-2-buten-1-yl acetate, a new alarm component in the sting apparatus of Africanized honey bees. J Chem Ecol 29: Tomkins JP, Luo M, Fang GC, Main D, Goicoechea JL, Atkins M, Frisch DA, Page RE, Guzmán-Novoa E, Yu Y, Hunt GJ, Wing RA, 2002 New genomic resources for the honey bee (Apis mellifera L.): development of a deep-coverage BAC library and a preliminary STC database. Genet Mol Res 1:

3 Guzmán-Novoa E, Hunt GJ, Page RE Jr., Fondrk MK, 2002 Genetic correlations among honey bee (Apis mellifera L.) behavioral characteristics and body size. Ann Entomol Soc Am 95: Guzmán-Novoa E, Hunt GJ, Uribe JL, Smith C, Arechavaleta-Velasco ME, 2002 Confirmation of QTL effects and evidence of genetic dominance of honey bee defensive behavior: Results of colony and individual behavioral assays. Behav Genet 32: Chandra SBC, Hunt GJ, Cobey S, Smith BH, 2001 Quantitative trait loci associated with reversal learning and latent inhibition in honeybees (Apis mellifara). Behav Genet 31: Nielsen DI, Ebert PR, Page RE Jr., Hunt GJ, Guzmán-Novoa E, 2000 Improved polymerase chain reaction-based mitochondrial genotype assay for identification of the Africanized honey bee (Hymenoptera: Apidae). Ann Entomol Soc Am 93:1-6. Page RE Jr., Fondrk MK, Hunt GJ, Guzmán-Novoa E, Humphries MA, Nguyen K, Greene A, 2000 Genetic dissection of honey bee (Apis mellifera L.) foraging behavior. J Hered 91: Beye M, Hunt GJ, Page RE Jr., Fondrk MK, Grohmann L, Moritz RFA, 1999 Unusually high recombination rate detected in the sex locus region of the honey bee (Apis mellifera). Genetics 153: Hunt GJ, Collins AM, Riviera R, Page RE Jr., Guzmán-Novoa E, 1999 Quantitative trait loci for honey bee alarm pheromone production. J Hered 90: Nielsen DI, Ebert PR, Hunt GJ, Guzman-Novoa E, Kinnee SA, Page RE Jr., 1999 Identification of africanized honey bees (Hymenoptera : Apidae) incorporating morphometrics and an improved polymerase chain reaction mitotyping procedure. Ann Entomol Soc Am 92: Hunt GJ, Guzmán-Novoa E, Fondrk MK, Page RE Jr., 1998 Quantitative trait loci for honey bee stinging behavior and body size. Genetics 148: Hunt GJ, 1998 The war against Varroa: How are we doing? Am Bee J 138: Hunt GJ, Page RE Jr., Fondrk MK, Dullum CJ, 1995 Major quantitative trait loci affecting honey bee foraging behavior. Genetics 141: Hunt GJ, Page RE Jr., 1995 A linkage map of the honey bee, Apis mellifera, based on RAPD markers. Genetics 139: Page RE Jr., Waddington KD, Hunt GJ, Fondrk MK, 1995 Genetic determinants of honey bee foraging behavior. Anim Behav 50: Kraus B, Hunt GJ, 1995 Differentiation of Varroa jacobsoni Oud. populations by random amplification of polymorphic DNA (RAPD). Apidologie 26: Hunt GJ, Page RE Jr., 1994 Linkage analysis of sex determination in the honey bee. Mol Gen Genet 244: Fondrk MK, Hunt GJ, Page RE Jr., 1993 Paternity analysis of honeybees using random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD). Naturwissenshaften 80(5) Hunt GJ, Page RE Jr., 1992 Patterns of inheritance of RAPD molecular markers reveal novel types of polymorphism in the honey bee. Theor Appl Genet 85: Helgeson JP, Haberlach GT, Ehlenfeldt MK, Hunt GJ, Pohlman JD, Austin S, 1993 Sexual progeny of somatic hybrids between potato and Solanum brevidens: Potential for use in breeding programs. Am Pot J 70:

4 Williams CE, Hunt GJ, Helgeson JP, 1990 Fertile somatic hybrids of Solanum species: RFLP analysis of a hybrid and its sexual progeny from crosses with potato. Theor Appl Genet 80: Hunt GJ, Helgeson JP, 1989 A medium and protocol for culturing single cells of Solanum species. Plant Sci 60: Helgeson JP, Hunt GJ, Austin S, 1986 Somatic hybrids between Solanum brevidens and Solanum tuberosum: expression of a late blight resistance gene and potato leaf roll resistance. Plant Cell Rep 3: BOOK CHAPTERS Gadau J, Hunt GJ, Behavioral genetics in social insects. Organization of Insect Societies from Genomes to Sociocomplexity, Gadau J and JH Fewell, eds. Harvard University Press, Boston. Schlipalius D, Ebert PR, Hunt GJ, Honeybee. pp in: Genome Mapping and Genomics in Animals, Vol 1, Arthropods. Springer, New York. Hunt GJ, Guzmán-Novoa E, Behavioral genetics of defensive behavior in Africanized honey bees, pp in Proceedings of the 2 nd International Conference on Africanized honey bees and bee mites, E. H. Erickson, R. E. Page and A. A. Hanna, eds. A.I. Root Company, Medina OH. Hunt GJ, Guzmán-Novoa E, Page RE, Genomic mapping of honey bee defensive behavior, pp in Apiculture for the 21st Century, R. Hoopingarner and L. Connor, eds. Wicwas Press, Cheshire CT. Hunt GJ, Construction of linkage maps with RAPD markers. pp in: Fingerprinting Methods Based on Arbitrarily Primed PCR s. Micheli MR and R Bova, eds. Springer-Verlag, Berlin. Hunt GJ, 1997 Insect DNA extraction protocol. pp in: Fingerprinting Methods Based on Arbitrarily Primed PCR. Micheli MR and R Bova, eds. Springer- Verlag, Berlin. EXTENSION PUBLICATIONS Hunt GJ, Heartland Apiculture Society in Bee Culture 135: Hunt GJ, Carroll NJ, H Manual I: Understanding the Honey Bee. Purdue Coop. Ext. Serv. Publ 4H-571. Hunt GJ, Carroll NJ, H Manual II: Working with Honey Bees. Purdue Coop. Ext. Serv. Publ 4H-586. Hunt GJ, Carroll NJ, H Manual III: Advanced Beekeeping Methods. Purdue Coop. Ext. Serv. Publ 4H-593. Hunt GJ, Edwards CR, Foster RE, Protecting Honey Bees From Pesticides. Purdue Coop. Ext. Serv. Publ E-53, 4pp. Hunt GJ, Using Honey Bees in Pollination. 8 pages. E-216 Purdue University Cooperative Extension Service, West Lafayette, IN. Hunt GJ, (revised 2006) Parasitic Mites of Honey Bees. 6 pages. E-201 Purdue University Cooperative Extension Service, West Lafayette, IN.

5 AWARDS President-elect, American Association of Professional Apiculturalists, J. I. Hambleton Research Award, Eastern Apiculture Society, Nominated, National Director NSF Integrative Biology and Neuroscience Animal Behavior review panel (declined), Trustee, Foundation for the Preservation of Honey Bees, 2003 to present. Co-founder, Heartland Apiculture Society, 2002 to present. Fulker Award: Best publication of the year, Behavior Genetics, 2002 George H. Vansell Scholarship, 1990 and Jastro-Shields Scholarship, UC-Davis Graduate Student Travel Scholarship, Scholarship from International Symposium on Molecular Insect Science, Best publication of the year, 1993, Am. Potato J. 70: GRANT SUPPORT CURRENT: USDA NRI, Analysis of genes and gene regions affecting agronomically important honey bee behaviors. 1/01/08-12/31/10 (G. Hunt, PI). $471,634. USDA-CSREES-NRI CAP, Sustainable solutions to problems affecting pollinator health. Funding and period for Hunt (Co-PI): $360,777, 8/02-12/12 Total: $ 4,100,000 USDA CSREES SARE, Improving honey bee health and pollination sustainability with mite resistance. 10/08-9/11 (G. Hunt, PI). $117,861 PAST: National Honey Board, Improving honey bee health and reducing pesticide use with mite resistant bees. 1/08-1/09 (G. Hunt, PI). $24,751. USDA Hatch Project. Breeding bees for productivity and mite resistance. 10/01/07-9/30/08 (G. Hunt, PI). $80,000 USDA block grant from Indiana Commissioner of Agriculture, Breeding honey bees for resistance to Varroa mites. 9/01/02-8/31/04 (G. Hunt, PI). $43,304 NSF, Fine-scale genetic mapping and sequence analysis of genes involved in honey bee stinging behavior. 09/15/01-09/14/05 (G. Hunt, PI).

6 $529,360 NSF, Genetic and Phenotypic Variation in the Foraging Behavior of African and European Honeybees. Funding and period for Hunt (Co-PI): $93,722, 3/02-2/04 $408,000 (J. Fewell, P.I.). Purdue Research Foundation, Genome Center Sequencing Seed Grant, 6/02 (Hunt, PI). $32,500 Hayward Genetic Foundation. (continued support). 01/01/01-12/31/01 (G. Hunt, PI). $10,000 USDA/NRI, The role of guarding behavior in colony defense for Africanized and European honey bees. Funding period: 11/01/00-10/31/02. (G. Hunt, PI). $137,000 Indiana 21 st Century Fund, Indiana Center for Insect Genomics Funding period 6/00-5/02. $1,787,240 ($38,333 for Hunt lab, Multi-investigator grant, Frank Collins, P.I.) Hayward Genetic Foundation. Isolation of large DNA clones from regions influencing honey bee stinging behavior. 10/99-9/00. (G. Hunt, PI). $33,000 Cooperative Agriculture Pest Survey Proposal (to Indiana DNR). Small hive beetle monitoring. 10/99-9/00 (G. Hunt, PI). $5,200 Alcide Corporation. Trials of Nosema medication in honey bees. Funding period: 6/97-2/98 (G. Hunt, PI). $9,760. NIH FIRST award. Genetic analysis of aggressive behavior in honey bees. Funding period: 6/96-6/01 (G. Hunt, PI). $525,800. USDA NRI. Mapping quantitative trait loci involved in defensive behavior of Africanized honey bees. Funding period: 12/94-12/97 (RE Page, PI). $180,000. Total: $13,458,477 ($2,556,428 to Hunt lab)

7 PROFESSIONAL INVOLVEMENT Host, Borlaug Fellow from Belgrade, Serbia 10/08. Proposal writer and Chair, NC508, Sustainable Solutions to Problems Affecting Honey Bee Health. This national committee has over 40 participants from 25 states and has submitted a proposal for a $4.1 million project to deal with extension and research to respond to colony collapse disorder and general bee health issues. 4/08 to present. Invited participant, USDA workshop on Colony Collapse Disorder, Beltsville MD, 4/07. Participant, retrospective review panel of USDA National Program 305, 6/06. Invited as 1 of a panel of 5 scientists to review all USDA bee labs 5-year plans, 6/03. Subject editor for the Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 1/02-1/04 Review Panelist, NSF Integrative Biology and Neuroscience Animal Behavior Program. 4/02, Arlington, VA. North Central Regional Project in Apiculture (NCR 202): Submitted the proposal and chaired the committee to coordinate research and extension in apiculture. Funded in 3/01. USDA funding workshop: Comparative Insect Genomics. Oct 28, Arlington, VA Humboldt Foundation: Host for a German researcher with a fellowship from the Humboldt Foundation, Germany, starting 1/01. Santa Fe Institute working group: The evolutionary dynamics of social organization in insect societies: from behavior to genes and back. Santa Fe, NM. 3 year program beginning 10/00. Rockefeller Foundation meeting: Building a Community to Foster New Approaches for the Study of Genes, Brain, and Behavior with Honey Bees. Bellagio, Italy, 6/00. NSF funding directions workshop: The Role of Biotechnology in Behavioral Science. Two meetings: 8/99 and 8/00. This workshop recommended ways to encourage the use of genomic techniques to study animal behavior and behavioral ecology. Arlington, VA. WEBSITE The Purdue Bee Hive (

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