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Native Pollinators
Cornell K. Lisa Yang Center for Wildlife Health Postdoctoral Fellows
Pesticides
Population Health
Neonicotinoid
Agriculture
Food Crop
Neonicotinoids
Neonicotinoid Restriction
Bee Population
Insecticides
Insect Decline
Policy Change
Policy
Seed Treatment
Data Science
Modeling
Synthetic Controls
Structural Causal Modeling
Statistical Modeling
Bumble Bee Atlas
Butterfly Species
Science-Based Advocacy
Neonicotinoid Working Group
Bee Communities
Pollination
Crop Pollination

K. Lisa Yang Wildlife Health Fellow to Evaluate Wild Bee Recovery After Neonicotinoid Restrictions

October 12, 2026
Dr. Wendy Leuenberger, a quantitative ecologist and a K. Lisa Yang Postdoctoral Fellow in Wildlife Health, is aiming to evaluate whether state and regional neonicotinoid regulations are successfully reversing pollinator declines.
a bee a deer and a mangrove tree
Postdoctoral Fellow
Cornell K. Lisa Yang Center for Wildlife Health Postdoctoral Fellows
Galápagos
Mangrove Ecosystem
Chronic Wasting Disease
Disease Surveillance
Pollinators
Wild Bees
Global Food Systems
Genomics
Ecology
Biostatistics
One Health
Wildlife Health
Global Fisheries
Plastic Pollution
Conservation
White-Tailed Deer
Transcriptome-wide association study
Cornell Wildlife Health Lab
Neonicotinoids
Food Production
Pollination
Agriculture
Pesticide

Cornell Yang Center for Wildlife Health Welcomes Postdoctoral Fellows Focused on Mangrove Conservation, Wildlife Disease Surveillance, and Protecting Pollinators

August 10, 2026
The 2026 cohort of Cornell K. Lisa Yang Postdoctoral Fellows in Wildlife Health is poised to restore mangrove ecosystems in the Galápagos, improve chronic waste disease surveillance, and protect the pollinators that underpin global food systems.