Museum Staff
Please send all loan, data, and visitor inquiries to Peter Oboyski
Peter Oboyski, Executive Director / Collections Manager
essig.museum[at]gmail.com, 510-643-0804
Noah Whiteman, Faculty Director
whiteman[at]berkeley.edu, 510-859-7749
Rosemary Gillespie, Curator of Spiders (Araneae)
gillespie[at]berkeley.edu, 510-642-3445
Kip Will, Curator of Carabidae (Coleoptera)
kipwill[at]berkeley.edu
Roberta Brett, Senior Museum Scientist
roberta.brett[at]berkeley.edu, 510-643-0804
Menglin Wang, Postdoctoral Researcher
menglinhsy[at]berkeley.edu
Fatima Hidalgo, Graduate Student Researcher
fatima_hidalgo[at]berkeley.edu
Leah Lee, Graduate Student Researcher
leah_lee[at]berkeley.edu
Jerid Vega, Assistant Museum Scientist
jerid[at]berkeley.edu
Sloane Sim, Media Specialist
eoctis[at]gmail.com
Faculty Affiliates
Rodrigo Almeida, Ecology of emerging insect-borne plant diseases
Michael Boots, Evolution and ecology of infectious disease management and control
Kent Daane, Insect pests in agricultural crops
Robert Dudley, Insect flight biomechanics
Damian Elias, Neuroethology, behavioral ecology, and evolutionary biology of arthropods
Paul Fine, Phytophagous insects of forests in Peru, Brazil and French Guiana
Gordon Frankie, Pollination ecology
Robert Full, Arthropod locomotion
Rosemary Gillespie, Evolutionary ecology, systematics, spider biology
Robert Lane, Biology of ticks and prevention of tick-borne diseases
Vernard Lewis, Urban insect pests
Nicholas Mills, Invasive species, biological control, population ecology
Alexander Purcell, Microbial ecology of sap-feeding insects
Vincent Resh, Evolutionary biology and ecology of aquatic insects
George Roderick, Invasion biology, population biology, global change
Albert Ruhi, Fresh water ecology and conservation
Mark Tanouye, Insect neurophysiology
Neil Tsutsui, Evolution of communication and behavior of ants
Noah Whiteman, Genomics of species interactions
Kipling Will, Carabid beetle chemical ecology and insect systematics
Caroline Williams, Mechanisms of insect responses to emerging winter environments
See the full list of Arthropod Science Faculty
Research Affiliates
Elizabeth Arias, Chilean arthropod diversity
Richard Arnold, Ecology of threatened insects
Cheryl Barr, Aquatic Coleoptera
Paul DaSilva, California insects
Curtis Ewing, Coleoptera, insect-plant interactions, forest entomology
Maxim Klepikov, Microlepidoptera, European Lepidoptera
Matthew Medeiros, Lepidoptera systematics and taxonomy
Patina Mendez, Trichoptera, aquatic ecology
Gordon Nishida, Biodiversity informatics
Dan Oppenheimer, Molecular ecology of pathogens, taxonomy
Jaime Pawelek, Bee (Anthophila) taxonomy and ecology
Carolina E. Reisenman, Insect neuroscience and behavior, insect-plant interactions, vector biology
Paul Rude, Diptera ecology and taxonomy
William Shepard, Aquatic insects
Kathy Schick, Biology and systematics of gall wasps (Cynipidae)
Ellen Shimakawa, Arthropod distributions
Allan Smith-Pardo, Bee (Anthophila) biology and taxonomy
Bob Zuparko, Taxonomy of parasitic Hymenoptera, especially Encyrtidae (Chalcidoidea)
Volunteers
Current Interns, Volunteers, and Research Assistants
Madeline Ahn, Madelyn Ansel, Peter Chen, Chloe Golde, Lauren Graul, Alan Guillen, Anna Hatzakis, Anya Kishida, Natalia Lelan-Cox, Megan Moe, Maya Ogasawara, Sarah Pike, Dylan Valle Rogers, Sloane Sim, Vishal Subramanyan, Sophia Summerell, Jessica Takeda, Ren Takeda, Anais Tuceryan, Jerid Vega, Sizhuo Wang, Monica Yup Chinchilla, Luyang Zhang
Past Interns, Volunteers, and Research Assistants
Chris Amy, Chris An, Sebastian Ayala, Skyler Bennett, Liam Bucsko, Beatrice Bui, Jos Burns, Kristy Cappelli, Melissa Chao, Nicole Chang, Albert Chern, Kevin Chung, Kira Collins, Fen (Annie) Conway, Timothy Corpuz, Maia Danks, Cameron Deptula, Anne Dettinger, Corina Dunn, Emma Erickson, Elizabeth Garcia, Sabrina Garcia, Ethan Grossman, Frey Guo, Bailey Harrison, Shiran Hershcovich, Jackie Ho, Analise Hober, Kaylee Holland, Lawrence (Yao) Huang, Sakina Isadibir, Ashley Kim, Eunice Kim, Minji Kim, Minju Kim, Grant Kirchhoff, Daisy Knobloch, Kaitlyn Kraybill-Voth, Ivan Kristanto, Alexandra Langer, Kyra Lee, Jessica Lee, Isabel Lee-Park, Rhys Leighton, Marlee Little, Amy Liu, Ziqi (Angela) Liu, Elena Ludwig, Aaron Luu, Sanika Mane, Erin McCann, Griffin McGuire, Yingyan (Alyssa) Mei, Seaera Moe, Haia Mohsen, Samantha Murphy, Isabella Niewiadomski, Melissa Orozco, Grace Pan, Edward Ramirez, Carla Ramirez, Deisy Ramos, Elise Rappel, Julian Rasco, Eleanor Reiff, Auryana Rodriguez, Roxane Rogers Buetens, Rika Sato-Baran, Ali Setayesh, Wilson Sherman, Diya Sinha, Karla Trejo, Winston Vo, Brandt Weary, Janelle Williams, Winter Walker-van Aalst, Ian Wang, Matthew Wong, Shiyang (Edwin) Wu, Yujing Wu, Zheyuan (Jenny) Xu, Helen Yang, Taylor Yutan, Tinsley Zhu
Profiles
University of California students trained at the Essig Museum have become leaders in the field of entomology at museums and universities throughout the world, and the list reads like a Who’s Who in Entomology: Peter Ashlock, Richard Bohart, Donald Bright Jr., John Brown, Donald Burdick, John Burns, John Chemsak, John Doyen, Deane Furman, Wayne Gagne, Rosser Garrison, J. Linsley Gressit, Charles Griswold, James Haddock, Kenneth Hagen, Jon Herring, Yu-Feng Hsu, Paul Hurd, Daniel Janzen, Clarence Johnson, Robert Lane, John Lattin, John Lawrence, James Liebherr, E. Gorton Linsley, Evert Lindquist, Don MacNeill, Ronald McGinley, Charles Michener, Charles & Lois O’Brien, Paul Opler, Jerry Powell, Frank Radovsky, Arthur Raske, David Rentz, Fred Rindge, Edward Ross, Jerome Rozen, Constantine Slobodchikoff, Ray Smith, John Sorensen, Wallace Steffan, Catherine Tauber, Robbin Thorp, William Turner, Robert Usinger, Natalia Vandenberg, Robert van den Bosch, David Voegtlin, David Wagner, Marius Wasbauer, Robert Wharton, James Whitfield, Elwood Zimmerman.