A newly discovered species has been named after Martha A. Gilliam, for her contributions in the early study of honey bee microbes

Gilliamella comprises a clade of symbiotic bee gut Gammaproteobacteria in the
Orbaceae family. Metabolism is microaerophilic and facultatively anaerobic. Cells are
rod-shaped and may be filamentous. Gilliamella shows negative reactions for nitrate
reductase, cytochrome c oxidase, urease, and glucose fermentation, and variable reactions
for catalase, β-glucosidase, and β-galactosidase. The type species of the genus is
Gilliamella apicola.

Members of this
Candidatus species have been cultured previously ... by Koch & Schmid-Hempel (2011b), 
where it wascultured from bumble bees and suggested to confer a protective function 
against an intestinal parasite, Crithidia bombi.

W. K. Kwong, and N. A. Moran 
Cultivation and characterization of the gut symbionts of honey bees and bumble bees
Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 2012

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