Museum Staff, Volunteers, & Affiliates


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

Rosemary Gillespie, Faculty Director
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

Casey Hubble, Museum Scientist
cwhubble[at]berkeley.edu, 510-643-0804

 


Faculty Affiliates

See the full list of Entomology 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

Jerry Powell, Retired (Lepidoptera 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, Jos Burns, Peter Chen, Corina Dunn, Elizabeth Garcia, Chloe Golde, Lauren Graul, Alan Guillen, Anna Hatzakis, Analise Hober, Anya Kishida, Isabel Lee-Park, Natalia Lelan-Cox, Elena Ludwig, Erin McCann, Yingyan (Alyssa) Mei, Megan Moe, Seaera Moe, Haia Mohsen, Maya Ogasawara, Grace Pan, Sarah Pike, Eleanor Reiff, Auryana Rodriguez, Dylan Valle Rogers, Sloane Sim, Diya Sinha, Vishal Subramanyan, Sophia Summerell, Jessica Takeda, Ren Takeda, Anais Tuceryan, Jerid Vega, Ian Wang, Sizhuo Wang, Matthew Wong, Shiyang (Edwin) Wu, Monica Yup Chinchilla, Luyang Zhang

How to get involved

Past Interns, Volunteers, and Research Assistants

Chris Amy, Chris An, Sebastian Ayala, Skyler Bennett, Liam Bucsko, Beatrice Bui, Kristy Cappelli, Melissa Chao, Nicole Chang, Albert Chern, Kevin Chung, Kira Collins, Fen (Annie) Conway, Timothy Corpuz, Maia Danks, Cameron Deptula, Anne Dettinger, Emma Erickson, Sabrina Garcia, Ethan Grossman, Frey Guo, Bailey Harrison, Shiran Hershcovich, Jackie Ho, 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, Rhys Leighton, Marlee Little, Amy Liu, Ziqi (Angela) Liu, Aaron Luu, Sanika Mane, Griffin McGuire, Samantha Murphy, Isabella Niewiadomski, Melissa Orozco, Edward Ramirez, Carla Ramirez, Deisy Ramos, Elise Rappel, Julian Rasco, Roxane Rogers Buetens, Rika Sato-Baran, Ali Setayesh, Wilson Sherman, Karla Trejo, Winston Vo, Brandt Weary, Janelle Williams, Winter Walker-van Aalst, 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.

John A. Chemsak (1932-2007)

Edward O. Essig (1884-1964)

Robert S. Lane

Jerry A. Powell

Evert Schlinger