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Adam is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Entomology and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.  He teaches courses in Physiology (IB 202) and Genes and Behavior (IB 432) in the School of Integrative Biology. He studies how pollinators, mostly focusing on honey bees, respond to the different stresses they encounter in their environment. These studies have centered heavily around the impacts of virus infection and the nutritional and chemical stresses associated with Midwestern row-crop agricultural systems.  Adam received his Ph.D. from Arizona State University, where he studied the behavioral physiology of harvester ants and honey bees; he then did postdoctoral work at Iowa State University.