Entomology Directory
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Ahmed, Amy
amycash@illinois.edu |
Research Specialist - Entomology & IGB Molecular basis of honey bee social behavior |
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Allan, Brian
ballan@illinois.edu |
Associate Director of Academic Affairs
Professor - Entomology Affiliate - Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior PEEC Ecology of infectious diseases |
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Alleyne, Marianne
vanlaarh@illinois.edu |
Assistant Professor - Entomology
Graduate Director of Online Master of Science Teaching Biology Program - School of Integrative Biology PEEC Bioinspired Design |
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Anderson, Nicholas |
Postdoctoral Researcher -
Entomology Insect community responses to conservation and restoration and native bee ecology |
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Arceneaux, Miles |
Graduate Student -
Entomology Ecological and behavioral plant-insect interactions of pest species and how to combat against the damage they cause Advisor: Esther Ngumbi |
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Barley, Tristan |
Graduate Student -
Entomology Behavioral effects of competition between native bees and honeybees Advisor: Adam G Dolezal |
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Basnet, Vinisha |
Graduate Student -
Entomology Advisor: Daniel Schneider |
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Beach, Nathan |
Research Specialist & Manager - Honey Bee Research Facility |
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Bello, Lizzie |
Graduate Student -
Entomology Bioinspired design and materials Advisor: Marianne Alleyne |
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Berenbaum, May
maybe@illinois.edu |
Professor & Head - Entomology
Professor - Plant Biology Swanlund Chair PEEC Interactions between insects and plants, including herbivores and pollinators, and their implications in the organization of natural communities and agroecosystems |
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Berlocher, Stewart
stewartb@illinois.edu |
Professor Emeritus - Entomology Systematics, speciation, insect-plant coevolution |
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Beshers, Samuel
beshers@illinois.edu |
Retired--Neuroscience Program Coordinator
and Entomology Affiliate Organization and behavior of ant colonies |
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Bried, Jason
bried@illinois.edu |
Assistant Research Scientist - Illinois Natural History Survey
Affiliate - Entomology PEEC Insect conservation, dragonflies & damselflies, wetland ecology and assessment, applied plant ecology, community ecology (metacommunities, coexistence) |
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Brown, Morgan |
Graduate Student -
Entomology Leafhopper biodiversity and conservation Advisor: Christopher Dietrich |
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Bush, Daniel |
Graduate Student -
Entomology Navel orangeworm's relationship with Aspergillus mold Advisor: May Berenbaum |
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Cáceres, Carla
cecacere@illinois.edu |
Director - School of Integrative Biology
Professor - Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior Affiliate - Entomology PEEC Population, community and evolutionary ecology; life-history evolution; disease ecology; limnology |
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Cameron, Sydney
sacamero@illinois.edu |
Professor Emerita - Entomology PEEC Application of phylogenetics, behavior and development to address questions concerning the evolution of social behavior in bees; conservation status and causal factors in declining pollinators; evolution of color pattern mimicry in bees |
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Carroll, Xavier |
Graduate Student -
Entomology The relationships between insects and ambient factors of their physical environment Advisor: Marianne Alleyne |
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Chiavini, Benjamin |
Graduate Student -
Entomology Study of small hive beetles in their life cycle, physiology, and behaviors in relation to honey bees and viruses/diseases Advisor: Adam G Dolezal |
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Clodfelter, E. |
Graduate Student -
Entomology Relationships of lice to their hosts and endosymbionts Advisor: Kevin Johnson |
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Coburn, Kat |
Graduate Student -
Entomology Biology education research: Science identity development, comparative analysis of supportive instructional materials that differ in accessibility and cultural relevance Advisor: Thomas McElrath |
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Dady, Erinn |
Graduate Student -
Entomology Using chemical ecology to examine the effects of combinatorial stress on plant-insect interactions, to address insect-related food insecurity Advisor: Esther Ngumbi |
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Dana, Catherine |
Graduate Student -
Entomology Cicada conservation and natural history Advisor: Sam Heads |
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Davis, Mark
davis63@illinois.edu |
Conservation Biologist - Illinois Natural History Survey
Affiliate - Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior; Entomology Phylogenetics, conservation genetics, population genetics, genomics, environmental DNA |
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Deem, Lesley
lesleyd@illinois.edu |
Pollinatarium Coordinator Plant Insect Interactions |
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Delcomyn, Fred
delcomyn@illinois.edu |
Professor Emeritus - Entomology
Director Emeritus - School of Integrative Biology Physiological basis of insect behavior |
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DeWalt, Ed
dewalt@illinois.edu |
Aquatic Entomologist - Illinois Natural History Survey
Affiliate - Entomology Taxonomy, ecology, and conservation of aquatic insects |
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Dietrich, Christopher
chdietri@illinois.edu |
Curator of Insects - Illinois Natural History Survey
Affiliate - Entomology PEEC Systematics, morphology, and evolutionary biology of leafhoppers and treehoppers; biodiversity and conservation of grassland ecosystems |
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Dolezal, Adam G
adolezal@illinois.edu |
Assistant Professor - Entomology
Affiliate - Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior PEEC How do environmental stressors interact to affect bee health? |
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Evangelista, Dominic
dominice@illinois.edu |
Assistant Professor - Entomology (beginning Spring 2023) The Roach Brain Lab for studying biodiversity through molecular systematics |
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Fauziyah, Siti |
Graduate Student -
Entomology Biomechanics of insect wings Advisor: Marianne Alleyne |
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Francis, Bettina
bfrancis@illinois.edu |
Associate Professor Emerita - Entomology Environmental and developmental toxicology |
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Fulton, Todd |
Insectary |
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Gray, Michael
megray@illinois.edu |
Professor Emeritus - Crop Sciences Affiliate - Entomology Integrated pest management |
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Grommes-Yeager, Anna |
Graduate Student - Entomology Chemical ecology of beetles in the families Cerambycidae and Elateridae |
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Hanks, Lawrence |
Professor - Entomology PEEC Chemical ecology and conservation biological control |
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Harmon-Threatt, Alex
aht@illinois.edu |
Associate Professor - Entomology PEEC Pollination Ecology, Conservation, and Restoration |
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Heads, Sam
swheads@illinois.edu |
Director, Center for Paleontology - Illinois Natural History Survey
Affiliate - Entomology, Geology |
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Hearon, Luke |
Graduate Student -
Entomology Predator-prey dynamics in mosquito communities Advisor: Carla Cáceres |
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Hogan, Phillip |
Graduate Student -
Entomology Identification of distribution patterns for both the historic and contemporaneous Midwest stonefly fauna using distributional modeling techniques Advisor: Ed DeWalt |
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Hsieh, Edward |
Graduate Student -
Entomology The properties of phytochemicals in honeybee honey and general honeybee behavior Advisor: Adam G Dolezal |
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Johnson, Kevin
kpjohnso@illinois.edu |
Principal Ornithologist - Illinois Natural History Survey
Affiliate - Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior; Entomology PEEC Molecular systematics, host-parasite co-evolution, comparative approaches to studying the evolution of behavior in birds, co-speciation between birds and parasitic lice, population genetics of island biogeography |
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Larson, Eric
erlarson@illinois.edu |
Assistant Professor - Natural Resources & Environmental Sciences
Affiliate - Entomology PEEC NRES, PEEC |
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Leigh, Kim
kaleigh@illinois.edu |
Administrative Aide - Entomology & OMST |
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Liao, Ling-Hsiu
liao19@illinois.edu |
Research Specialist - Entomology Honeybees toxicology (advisor: May Berenbaum) |
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McElrath, Thomas
tcm@illinois.edu |
Insect Collection Manager - Illinois Natural History Survey
Affiliate - Entomology |
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Mleziva, Aaron |
Graduate Student -
Entomology Plant-insect chemical interaction Advisor: Esther Ngumbi |
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Molano-Flores, Brenda
molano1@illinois.edu |
Senior Plant Ecologist - Illinois Natural History Survey
Affiliate - Entomology; Plant Biology plant-insect interactions, reproductive biology of plants, population biology, conservation biology; restoration |
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Mongold-Diers, Judith
jdiers@illinois.edu |
Academic hourly - Entomology |
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Mowery, Samantha |
Graduate Student -
Entomology Phytochemicals associated with floral resources and bee products, the bee bread mycobiome, the gut microbiome of honey and bumble bees, and disease ecology Advisor: Adam G Dolezal |
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Murphree, Maggie |
Graduate Student -
Entomology Emergent behavior, division of labor, and social networks of honey bee colonies Advisor: Gene Robinson |
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Nardi, James B.
j-nardi@illinois.edu |
Research Scientist - Entomology Development of insect stem cells |
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Ngumbi, Esther |
Assistant Professor - Entomology;
African American Studies PEEC Broadly interested in understanding the multifaceted uses of chemical signals (both volatile and non-volatile) by herbivores, natural enemies, plants and their associated microorganisms and insects. Moreover, my research on beneficial soil microbes seeks to find microbial-based solutions for improving crop production, alleviating drought stress in crop plants and sustainable pest management. We use a comparative approach with model tritrophic systems and employ several chemical ecology tools. |
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Noel, Kylee |
Graduate Student -
Entomology Genetic and physiological effects of insecticide resistance in mosquitoes; scientific outreach to the community to encourage citizen science Advisor: Chris Stone |
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Payne, Alex |
Postdoctoral Researcher - IGB & Entomology |
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Prayugo, Vincent |
Graduate Student -
Entomology Toxicology of honey bees Advisor: Adam G Dolezal |
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Ratcliffe, Susan |
Retired - Crop Sciences
Affiliate - Entomology Integrated pest management |
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Riecks-Soucek, David
soucek@illinois.edu |
Ecotoxicologist, Entomologist - Illinois Natural History Survey
Affiliate - Entomology Aquatic ecotoxicology |
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Roberts, Ginny
ver21@illinois.edu |
Research Technician |
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Robertson, Hugh
hughrobe@illinois.edu |
Professor Emeritus - Entomology The molecular basis for insect olfaction and taste; insect and arthropod genomics |
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Robinson, Gene
generobi@illinois.edu |
Director - Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Swanlund Chair Professor - Entomology PEEC Insect social behavior and genomics |
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Robinson, Jason
jrob@illinois.edu |
Associate Scientist - Illinois Natural History Survey
Affiliate - Entomology |
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Schneider, Daniel
ddws@illinois.edu |
Professor - Urban and Regional Planning
Affiliate - Entomology PEEC Aquatic invertebrate ecology; ecology of invasive species; environmental history |
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Schuler, Mary
maryschu@illinois.edu |
Professor - Plant Biology; Biochemistry; Cell and Developmental Biology Affiliate - Entomology Pre-mRNA processing, P450 monooxygenases and their role in plant-insect interactions |
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Sinha, Saurabh
sinhas@illinois.edu |
Professor and Willett Faculty Scholar - Computer Science
Affiliate - Entomology |
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Spencer, Joseph
spencer1@illinois.edu |
Principal Insect Behaviorist - Illinois Natural History Survey
Affiliate - Entomology Mechanisms of behavior in crop insect pests |
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Spina, Joseph |
Graduate Student -
Entomology Arbovirus ecology and vector competence Advisor: Chris Stone |
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St. Clair, Ashley |
Postdoc Research Associate |
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Stone, Chris
cstone@illinois.edu |
Medical Entomologist - Illinois Natural History Survey
Affiliate - Entomology The impact of environmental change on mosquito-borne pathogen transmission and control; mosquito behavioral ecology and physiology; mathematical modelling of vector demography, population dynamics and pathogen transmission; integrated vector management |
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Suarez, Andrew V.
suarez2@illinois.edu |
Professor and Head - Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior
Professor - Entomology PEEC Ant ecology and behavior; biological invasions |
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Suresh, Sreelakshmi |
Graduate Student -
Entomology Foraging behavior of honey bees in agricultural systems Advisor: Adam G Dolezal |
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Swanson, Daniel |
Graduate Student -
Entomology Systematics of assassin bugs Advisor: Sam Heads |
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Tamarri, Jacob |
Graduate Student -
Entomology Paleoenvironments and the roles plants and insects play in them; primarily comparing ancient insects to contemporary ones, with a focus on hymenopterans Advisor: Sam Heads |
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Taylor, Lincoln |
Graduate Student -
Entomology Interactions between honey bees and their pathogens, in particular honey bee behavior Advisor: Adam G Dolezal |
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Tetlie, Jonathan |
Graduate Student -
Entomology The lingering impact of agricultural practices on habitat restoration efforts of prairies and their effect on native bee communities Advisor: Alex Harmon-Threatt |
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Thomas, M. Jared |
Graduate Student -
Entomology Paleoentomology with emphasis on Tetrigidae (pygmy grasshoppers) Advisor: Sam Heads |
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Tuten, Holly
htuten@illinois.edu |
Vector Ecologist - Illinois Natural History Survey
Affiliate - Entomology Molecular analyses of Illinois mosquito and tick pathogens, microbiomes, and population genetics |
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Udayakumar, Anupama |
Graduate Student -
Entomology Identifying and analyzing different elaterid beetles and cerambycids species, specifically those within the Lamiinae and Lepturges families Advisor: Lawrence Hanks |
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Voegtlin, David
dvoegtli@illinois.edu |
Retired - Illinois Natural History Survey
Affiliate - Entomology Biology and taxonomy of aphids, retired |
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Wargin, Annaliese |
Graduate Student -
Entomology The ecology of native pollinators in restored landscapes; insect behavioral responses to abiotic change Advisor: Alex Harmon-Threatt |
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Warnow, Tandy
warnow@illinois.edu |
Grainger Distinguished Chair in Engineering
Founder Professor and Associate Head - Computer Science Affiliate - Entomology; Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior; Plant Biology PEEC Phylogenomics, multiple sequence alignment, and metagenomics |
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Whitfield, James
jwhitfie@illinois.edu |
Professor Emeritus - Entomology PEEC Ecology and phylogeny of parasitoid wasps |
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Williams, Cariad |
Graduate Student -
Entomology Wide range of research interests within palaeontology including biomechanics of vertebrates, exceptional preservation of arthropods and taphonomic processes within the fossil record Advisor: Sam Heads |
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Wilson, Sara |
Graduate Student -
Entomology Mosquito feeding behavior and control Advisor: Chris Stone |
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Wu, Wen-Yen |
Graduate Student -
Entomology Chemical ecology of insects Advisor: May Berenbaum |