Nina Sokolov is a Ph.D. candidate at UC Berkeley in Dr. Mike Boots’ lab studying disease ecology in managed and native bees of California. She is interested in understanding how crop pollination events such as the almond bloom impact viral dynamics in pollinator systems. Specifically, she works on ranches and in gardens throughout Marin County studying honeybee and bumblebee viruses through time to see how management styles, ranging from migratory pollinator operations to feral colonies in the wild with no interventions, impacts bee health. Additionally, she works in the Sierra studying virus dynamics in an alpine wildflower pollinator system to understand the directionality of virus spillover between managed honeybees and native bees, and how diversity and floral preferences play a role in disease transmission.