Dr Geraldine Wright
Lecturer
- Email: jeri.wright@ncl.ac.uk
- Telephone: +44 (0)191 222 6667
- Fax: 0191 222 5229
- Website: http://www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/jeri.wright/
- Address: Room 3.54A
School of Biology
Ridley Building
Newcastle University
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 7RU
Research Interests
My research is focused on resolving how chemical signals are encoded by the senses of smell and taste. Using the honeybee as a model system, I study how animals learn, recognize, and discriminate among odours of different quality, intensity, and complexity. I am also interested in the way that an animal's nutritional state affects both its sense of taste and its foraging decisions.
(Those are real honeybees!)
This was done at Ohio State University, Rothenbuhler Honeybee Lab.
Current Work
http://www.mathinstitutes.org/nuggets/honeybee.html
Selected Publications
- Wright GA; Carlton M; Smith BH. A Honeybee's Ability to Learn, Recognize, and Discriminate Odors Depends Upon Odor Sampling Time and Concentration. Behavioral Neuroscience 2009, 123(1), 36-43.
- Wright, G.A. Bee Pheromones: Signal or Agent of Manipulation?. Current Biology 2009, 19, R497-8.
- Wright GA; Choudhary AF; Bentley MA. Reward quality influences the development of learned olfactory biases in honeybees. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 2009, 276(1667), 2597-2604.
- Mustard JA; Edgar EA; Mazade RE; Wu C; Lillvis JL; Wright GA. Acute ethanol ingestion impairs appetitive olfactory learning and odor discrimination in the honeybee. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory 2008, 90(4), 633-643.
- Wright G; Kottcamp S; Thomson M. Generalization Mediates Sensitivity to Complex Odor Features in the Honeybee. PLoS ONE 2008, 3(2), e1704.
- Wright, G.A, Mustard, J.A, Kottcamp, S.M, and Smith, B.H. Olfactory memory formation and the influence of reward pathway during olfactory learning by honeybees. Journal of Experimental Biology 2007, 210, 4024-4033.
Qualifications
DPhil Zoology Oxford
MAS Statistics Ohio State
BSc(Hons) Botany Wyoming
