Department of Entomology

Title: Pollinators and pollination under pressure: the impacts of pesticide exposure on wild bees Abstract: Pollinators are essential to agricultural production (particularly fruit, vegetable and nut crops) and maintaining the health and diversity of wild plant communities. There is well established evidence showing…

Title: Investigating how viruses modulate plant-insect interactions. Abstract: Most viral pathogens depend on insect vectors for transmission among plants and, ultimately, for survival. As a result, vector-plant interactions are critical to virus epidemiology.My lab seeks to determine the molecular mechanisms that…