Dr. Robinson was recently elected as a Fellow of the Entomological Society of America (ESA). The designation of ESA Fellow recognizes individuals who have made outstanding contributions to entomology. The award will be presented at the annual ESA meeting beginning December 13 in Indianapolis.
Gene E. Robinson joined the faculty of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, in 1989 and is a University Center for Advanced Study Professor and Swanlund Chair. He is also the director of the University of Illinois Bee Research Facility, director of the Neuroscience Program, leader of the Neural and Behavioral Plasticity Theme at the Institute for Genomic Biology, and a professor of entomology with affiliate appointments in the Departments of Cell & Developmental Biology, Natural Resources & Environmental Sciences, and Animal Biology and in the Beckman Institute of Science and Technology. Dr. Robinson obtained his Ph.D. in entomology from Cornell University in 1986. He is the author or co-author of over 200 publications, pioneered the application of genomics to the study of social behavior, led the effort to gain approval from the National Institutes of Health for sequencing the honey bee genome, and heads the Honey Bee Genome Sequencing Consortium. Robinson has made a wide range of fundamental advances in elucidating the endocrine, neural, and genetic regulation of behavior at the individual and colony levels in honey bees. He has significantly advanced the understanding of the role of genes, hormones, and neurochemicals in the evolution of social behavior. Dr. Robinson has been honored as a University Scholar, G. William Arends Professor of Integrative Biology, Fulbright Fellow, and Guggenheim Fellow. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and the US National Academy of Sciences.
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