Daniel Robert

  • Friday

  • Germination Station

  • 11:15

Daniel Robert is a biologist interested in how and why organisms interact with their environments and how they acquire information from them. He is a professor at the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Bristol. Daniel studies the mechanisms by which different insects can hear using their very small ears and discovered how very small animals can hear where a sound comes from. Recently, Robert and collaborators reported that pollinators like bumblebees can detect and learn about the electric fields surrounding flowers. This new sense has since been observed in other animals, such as spiders, caterpillars and treehoppers, opening up a new sensory world thus far unknown to us humans.

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