My Interviewees as Professional

      I'm interviewing these people but it important that they actually have writing to speak of, or it would be a bit wasteful to interview them in light of the project being about the writing in my field of study.

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What Is This Writing You Speak Of?
         Most of Alan Nighorn's publications deal with sensory systems, like the olfactory and the connections of neurons inside it, pertaining to certain insects, like breeds of moths or drosophila.
          Anna Dornhaus has the similar theme of insects within her publications, but differently is that her focus within her works are "social insects" and how they interact.

But What Type Is It?
        Alan Nighorn has primarily only published research papers into journals, such examples as this publication in the Journal of Neurochemistry and this publication in the Journal of Neuroscience. So there isnt much genre convention differences between the two, generally a journal publication will include the abstract of the paper and then the main written part usually with some section differentiation like titles, journal research papers longer paragraphs usually structures in a single or two column way.  Usually these pieces are heavily referenced.
       Anna Dornhaus is similar in the way that she has written for multiple journals, papers like this in the Animal Behavior journal and a different one in Apidologie. So like what was said before for Dr. Nighorn, however unlike Dr. Nighorn, Dr. Dornhaus also has had a larger presence at conferences. While these haven't actually been technically published works they are importantly distinct from written works. She has to make the experience more capturing in a conference talk than in a long many page research paper. Also technically writing for such things would be put onto science posters and the conventions of those also include abstracts, graphs but more shorter amounts of main writing. It has to summarize the overall work done.
         

What's Your Message Here?
             The message in Dr. Nighorn's article in the Journal of Neurochemistry deals with specific genes in the antennal neurons of Manduca sexta that are activated by calcium, and they were trying to determine how these differed from other activators in another sensory systems within insects. His second journal writing is about how certain signals may help sorting of olfactory sensory axons in Manduca sexta. The specific signal studied has been determined to seem to have multiple use for the Manduca and may point towards other studies to see the more extensive effects.
             In Dr. Dornhaus' publication in the Animal Behavior journal the message that is reached is that bumble bees seem to have a connection between their division of labor and the space within which they mostly reside within the nest of the colony. The other work by Dr. Dornhaus has to do with how information travels within bumble bees in regards to their foraging habits. The message ultimately is that when bumble bees forage they don't just get food they also get information which they share and are then able to influence the other bees on whether they should take up foraging or not based on their success.

What's The Point Even?
         The point for each of Dr. Nighorn's pieces deal with internal working in the neuron and sensory connectors of the Manduca sexta; having this knowledge allows us to know more deeply about how the connections work and can lead to complete understanding of neuron connection and effects of signals.
         For Dr. Dornhaus' works her goal is to educate and learn more deeply about how social insects get their information and interact. Such actions are important to understanding how animals without direct communication truly work.