Jamie is currently the Chair of and a Professor in the Department of Entomology.  He came to OSU in 2019 after working for USDA-ARS for 13 years as a research entomologist. Jamie began his career working as a USDA technician working on alfalfa breeding and seed production at the Irrigated Agriculture Research and Extension Center in Prosser, WA.  He attended graduate school and studied honeybee health and genetics at Washington State University.  He spent a year doing a post-doc at Cornell University before returning to the USDA-ARS at the Pollinating Insect- Biology, Management, Systematics Research Unit in Logan, UT.  There he began working on bumble bees, their conservation, parasites, and population genetics.  His lab currently focuses on bumble bee health related to landscape, including how bumble bee respond to parasites in different landscapes and how landscape impacts gene flow among populations.