Geraldine Wright

Jeri Wright studies the neural basis of behaviour and the nutritional ecology of honeybees in the Institute of Neuroscience at Newcastle University. A Wyoming native, she studied botany at the University of Wyoming while working as an assistant researcher in the entomology museum. As an undergraduate, she first combined her interest in plants and insects by studying insect nutrition as a Rhodes scholar at Oxford University in the Department of Zoology. As a postdoc, she came back to the US to study olfaction in honeybees in the Rothenbuhler Honeybee Laboratory at Ohio State University. After six years (and a master’s degree in statistics), she returned to the UK to set up her own lab in Newcastle upon Tyne.