In this episode, Jeff and Kim talk with Dr. Reed Johnson. Reed got his start in research beekeeping in his hometown,  Missoula, MT. Reed received his Ph.D. in Entomology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he was involved in the honey bee genome project, then moved on to and a post-doc position at the University of Nebraska where he explored drug interactions between miticides in bees. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Dept. of Entomology at The Ohio State University.