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August 2025 - present

Lab and Apiary Manager

Shafir Lab, B. Triwaks Bee Research Center, Hebrew U.

Karmi wearing her grandfather's Drexel sweater Karmi in lab goggles during the PhD years Doctoral thesis figure with desert isopod field methods
2019-2025

Drexel PhD

Under Sean O'Donnell's mentorship, in my grandfather's wool Drexel sweater: a pandemic six months in could not stop me from enjoying time with ants, wasps, and mostly isopods.

Karmi on Philadelphia rooftops with beehives
2018-2019

Rooftop bees in Philadelphia

Urban dance maps with Doug Sponsler, Christina Grozinger, and Don Shump.

Brain histology slide from the Geffen lab
2017-2019

Brains n' Behavior

Auditory neuroscience with Maria Geffen, plus a lasting love of histology.

Karmi holding bees in the Shafir lab
2013-2017

Honey bee decision-making

Sharoni Shafir's lab: bee nutrition and an MSc in Agroecology focused on waggle dance reliability.

Aviel on a ropes course at Camp Galil
2012-2013

Camp Galil, ants, carpenter bees

Met my husband Aviel, and a brief foray into age polyethism in ants with Timothy Linksvayer, and carpenter bee nest illustrations for Sandra Rehan.

Karmi holding a bug-leg-shaped bee hotel
2008-2012

Oberlin: the liberal arts of biology

Initiated and constructed a native plants teaching garden, still a department asset almost 15 years later.

1997-ish

Backyard bugs

Slugs and roly polies replace the dolls in Polly Pocket houses.