Directory
Your leaders in Insect Biodiversity research

Leadership
Flor Acevedo
- Associate Professor of Entomology and Arthropod Ecology (Penn State Behrend)
Istvan Albert
- Research Professor of Bioinformatics
Bioinformatics, large scale biological data analysis, microarrays and sequence analysis. Scientific programming, algorithm. . .
Jared Ali
- Associate Chair, Intercollege Graduate Degree Program in Ecology
- Director of the Center for Chemical Ecology
Behavior and chemical ecology of multi-trophic interactions, including plant responses to below-ground herbivory and. . .
Etya Amsalem
- Associate Professor of Entomology
The evolutionary development and the mechanistic basis of social behavior in insects using an integrative approach. . .
Ottar Bjornstad
- Huck Chair of Epidemiology
- Distinguished Professor of Entomology and Biology
Population ecology and population dynamics with particular emphasis on mathematical and computational aspects
Natalie Boyle
- Assistant Research Professor
- Insect Biodiversity Center Program Coordinator
Anil Chaudhary
- Assistant Professor of Agricultural and Extension Education
Andrew Deans
- Professor of Entomology, Director of the Frost Entomological Museum
Gary Felton
- Professor and Department Head of Entomology
Plant-herbivore interactions. Adaptive responses of herbivores to plant defenses. Herbivore cues recognized by plants with. . .
Sarah Goslee
- Adjunct Associate Professor of Agronomy, USDA-ARS
Landscape diversity in agricultural areas; Taxonomic and functional diversity and grassland management; Multivariate and. . .
Helen Greatrix
- Assistant Professor of Remote Sensing and Geo-statistics
Christina Grozinger
- Director of the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences
- Publius Vergilius Maro Professor and Huck Scholar of Entomology
Genomics of social behavior and health in bees
Heather Hines
- Interim Director, Center for Pollinator Research
- Interim Director, Insect Biodiversity Center
Applies genomic, transcriptomic, phylogenomic, and bioinformatic approaches to study the evolution and genetics of diverse. . .
Kelli Hoover
- Professor of Entomology
Invasive species of forest insects; plant-insect-entomopathogen interactions; impacts of plants on pathogenesis; biological. . .
David Hughes
- Huck Chair in Global Food Security
- Professor of Entomology and of Biology
Parasite manipulation of host behavior
Margarita Lopez-Uribe
- Associate Professor of Entomology
How environmental change and human management shape bee health and long-term persistence of their populations in agricultural. . .