13 People Results for the Tag: Beetle
Tanya Renner
Assistant Professor of Entomology
Evolution of chemical and structural defense. Molecular evolution, evolutionary genomics, and transcriptomics. Origins and evolution of carnivorous plants.
Erica Smithwick
Professor of Geography
Understanding how a wide range of disturbances, especially fire, affect ecosystem function at landscape scales.
Jared Ali
Assistant Professor of Entomology
Behavior and chemical ecology of multi-trophic interactions, including plant responses to below-ground herbivory and nematode. Insect community ecology, chemical ecology, and coevolution. Trophic cascades, above- and below-ground interactions, chemotaxis of soil nematodes, and evolution of plant defense strategies.
Kelli Hoover
Professor of Entomology
Invasive species of forest insects; plant-insect-entomopathogen interactions; impacts of plants on pathogenesis; biological control of hemlock woolly adelgid
David Geiser
Professor of Mycology
Molecular evolutionary genetics of pathogenic and toxigenic fungi.
Sara Hermann
Assistant Professor of Arthropod Ecology and Trophic Interactions
Natalie Boyle
Assistant Research Professor; Insect Biodiversity Center Program Coordinator