Briana Ezray Wham

Director of Research Data Stewardship
Associate Librarian

Department Address

University Park, PA 16802-1800
96 Curtin Road
W332 Pattee Library
bde125@psu.edu

Education History

Ph D, Entomology - The Pennsylvania State University - 2019
BA, Biology - Willamette University - 2014

Publications

Comparison of seasonal viral prevalence supports honey bees as potential spring pathogen reservoirs for bumble bees, Ecosphere, 2024

Community-based Curate-a-Thons to Enhance Preservation of Global Genetic Biodiversity Data: A Practical Case Study, International Journal of Digital Curation, 2023

Importance of timely metadata curation to the global surveillance of genetic diversity, Conservation Biology, 2023

Life History, Biology, and Distribution of Pterostichus melanarius (Coleoptera: Carabidae) in North America, Environmental Entomology, 2021

Substantial genetic divergence and lack of recent gene flow support cryptic speciation in a colour polymorphic bumble bee (Bombus bifarius) species complex, Systematic Entomology, 2020

Unsupervised machine learning reveals mimicry complexes in bumblebees occur along a perceptual continuum, Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2019

Mullerian mimicry in bumble bees is a transient continuum, bioRxiv, 2019

Measuring perceptual distance of organismal color pattern using the features of deep neural networks, bioRxiv, 2019

Other Publications

Chapters

Leveraging the Utility of Rstudio to Teach Data Management and Research Reproducibility, Teaching Research Data Management, 2022

Letters

Institutional data repositories are vital, Science, 2024

Others

Leveraging Task-Specific Large Language Models to Enhance Research Data Management Services, ResearchDataQ, 2024

Sensitive Biodiversity Essentials Primer, 2023

FASTA/FASTQ Data Curation Primer, 2023

A taxonomic revision of nearctic conostigmus (hymenoptera: ceraphronoidea: megaspilidae), Zootaxa, 2020

Substantial genetic divergence and lack of recent gene flow support cryptic speciation in a colour polymorphic bumble bee (Bombus bifarius) species complex, 2019

Evolutionary and ecological patterns in bumble bees (Bombus spp.): from mimetic coloration to epidemiological dynamics, 2019