Located at the University of California in Riverside, CIBER is dedicated to facilitate interdisciplinary research on bees. CIBER offers a working platform for scientists to perform collaborative research on pollinating insects alongside industry partners. The ultimate goal is to better understand the health of pollinating insects and counter the dramatic losses currently occurring. To achieve this CIBER combines expertise from beekeepers with decades of experience, sociobiologists and their insights into the functioning of bee societies, evolutionary ecologists and their understanding of evolutionary processes and molecular biologists that provide expertise to harness the genomes and proteomes of bees.