Presented by Dr. Samuel Ramsey, Assistant Professor
Marvin H. Caruthers Endowed Chair for Early-Career Faculty
University of Colorado Boulder BioFrontiers Institute
Thursday, Nov. 20, 2025, Boulder, Colorado
Southeast Asia is the only region of the world where every honey bee species is present. With that unparalleled biodiversity comes quite a few parasites, diseases, and specialized predators from “Murder Hornets” to Parasitic Mite Syndrome. Dr. Ramsey’s goal of understanding this disease reservoir dynamic has taken him all over Asia on adventure after adventure.
Dr. Ramsey received his B.S. in entomology from Cornell University and his Ph.D. in entomology from the University of Maryland College Park. He completed his post-doctoral training with Dr. Jay Evans, Steve Cook, and Daniel Sonenshine at USDA-ARS Bee Research Laboratory and now serves as Endowed Professor of Entomology at CU Boulder’s BioFrontiers Institute and the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department.
Featured on Hulu’s Your Attention Please, as well as in the Washington Post, on NPR, CNN, Wired, CBS This Morning, Khan Academy, Seeker, The Today Showand several local news segments, Ramsey is celebrated as an engaging science communicator. He uses this talent to make science more accessible to a broad audience.
His nonprofit, The Ramsey Research Foundation, works to remove barriers that slow the progress of and decrease access to science by developing novel pathways for scientific funding and by removing paywalls that keep the public from engaging with published scientific work.
For more information: https://www.ramseyresearchfoundation.org