Faculty

Rodrigo Almeida, Ecology of emerging insect-borne plant diseases and insect-microbe interactions

Michael Boots, Evolution and ecology of infectious disease management and control

Kent Daane, Insect pests in agricultural crops

Robert Dudley, Insect flight biomechanics, the origins of aerial behavior in hexapods, and the ecophysiology of butterfly migrations

Damian Elias, Neuroethology, behavioral ecology, and evolutionary biology of arthropods

Paul Fine, Phytophagous insects on Burseraceae and communities of forests in Peru, Brazil and French Guiana

Rosemary Gillespie, Evolutionary ecology, systematics, spider biology, conservation

George Roderick, Invasion biology, population biology, global change

Albert Ruhi, Fresh water ecology and conservation

Mark Tanouye, Insect neurophysiology

Neil Tsutsui, The evolution of communication and behavior of ants and bees. Origin and spread of invasive species

Noah Whiteman, Genomics of species interactions

Kipling Will, Carabid beetle chemical ecology and insect systematics

Caroline Williams, Insect physiology, mechanisms and consequences of insect responses to emerging winter environments

 

EMERITUS FACULTY

Miguel Altieri (emeritus), Biological control agro-ecology

Gordon Frankie (emeritus), Native bee-flower-people relationships and pollination ecology in urban, agricultural, and wild lands and bee taxonomy

Robert Full, Arthropod locomotion as it relates to a structure, physiology, and behavior

Isao Kubo (emeritus), Natural products chemistry

Robert Lane (emeritus), Biology of ticks, and the ecology epidemiology and prevention of tick-borne diseases, particularly Lyme disease

Vernard Lewis (emeritus), Urban insect pests, particularly, termites and bed bugs, the latest detection and control techniques

Nicholas Mills, (emeritus) Invasive species, biological control, population ecology and insect biology

Mary Power, (emeritus) Food webs in rivers and their watersheds

Alexander Purcell (emeritus), Microbial ecology of sap-feeding insects with respect to insect vectors of plant pathogens

Vincent Resh (emeritus), Evolutionary biology and ecology of aquatic insects