Title | Degree | Areas of Interest | Advisor |
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Ellen Owusu Adjeiwaa | M.S. | Examining the potential pests and their impact on pennycress (Thlaspi arvense) production. |
Robert Koch |
Emily Althoff | Ph.D. | Eastern Larch Beetle |
Brian Aukema |
Michelle Boone | Ph.D. | Developing non-lethal methods to study endangered insects, including using occupancy modeling to estimate detection probabilities and non-invasive ways to study population genetics of Bombus spp. |
Sujaya Rao |
Julia Brokaw | Ph.D. | I am interested in how to establish and restore prairies for native plants and wild bees and the driving factors that make restoration successful at both local and landscape levels. Additionally, I am interested in connecting policy decision with prairie and pollinator conservation that help both people and the environment. |
Dan Cariveau |
Josie Dillon | M.S. | Understanding late-season management of Potato Virus Y, a serious aphid-vectored disease limiting seed potato production. |
Ian MacRae |
Chan Dolan | M.S. | I am interested in how bumble bees use different habitats for foraging and nesting. I would also like to work towards developing efficient methods for locating bumble bee nests, including those of the endangered Rusty-patched Bumble Bee (Bombus affinis). |
Dan Cariveau |
Tessa Durnin | M.S. | Winter dynamics of an aquatic fly (Diptera: Chironomidae) |
Leonard Ferrington |
Dominique Ebbenga | Ph.D. | My research will include studies aimed to learn more about Japanese beetle basic biology, phenology, and continue working on developing a IPM program growers can use to manage this pest. |
Bill Hutchison |
Laura Fricke | Ph.D. | Genetics behind the host-microbe relationship within the parasitoid wasp Trichogramma pretiosum and its symbiont, Wolbachia. |
Amelia Lindsey |
Correy Hildebrand | Ph.D. | It will most likely involve genomics and Necrobia rufipes. That’s all I know presently. I would love to do a smaller project related to VOCs and chemical attraction. |
Stephen Kells |
Aaron Irber | M.S. | Dan Cariveau | |
Megan Jones | M.S. | Wolbachia genetics |
Amelia Lindsey |
August Kramer | M.S. | Mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae) and eastern five-spined ips (Ips grandicollis) dispersal in western Montana. |
Brian Aukema |
Rosa Tina Lozano | Ph.D. | Insecticide resistance management for soybean aphid, using molecular techniques and understanding the growers practices. |
Robert Koch |
Mary Marek Spartz | Ph.D. | I am working on the garlic mustard (Alliaria petiolata) biocontrol effort, researching two Ceutorhynchus weevils from the plant's native range in Europe. |
George Heimpel & Roger Becker |
Gloria Melotto | M.S. | Biological control of soybean gall midge. |
Bob Koch Amelia Lindsey |
James Menger | M.S. | My research explores pyrethroid resistance in soybean aphid (Aphis glycines Matsumura). We've developed a rapid assessment bioassay for pyrethroid resistance in the soybean aphid and I'm hoping to pair that data with in-field insecticide efficacy that could aid growers in choosing effective management tools. I'll also be exploring accompanying fitness costs (or lack there of) that may be associated with pyrethroid resistance. |
Robert Koch |
Ismael Ramirez Moreno | Ph.D. | Insect Biological Control for Conservation Biology |
George Heimpel |
Dora Mwangola | Ph.D. | Associational protection and potential non-target effects of systemic insecticide treatments against emerald ash borer |
Brian Aukema |
Sally Nelson | M.S. | I will be researching apple IPM, specifically the effectiveness of hail netting at excluding harmful insect pests from the apple crop. |
Bill Hutchison |
Corrie Nyquist | Ph.D. | Winter emergence of Chironomidae in trout streams |
Leonard Ferrington |
Maggie Shanahan | Ph.D. | Resin use and social immunity in honey bees and stingless bees |
Marla Spivak |
Cody Thorpe | Ph.D. | My research interests are broadly centered around using molecular genetic and microscopy methods to understand the interactions between symbiotic bacteria, other microbes, and their arthropod hosts. More specifically, I am interested in the bacterial endosymbiont Wolbachia not only for its general medical importance in disease vector control but also for its ubiquitous nature in insects and the many unexplored interactions and phenomenons displayed in its wide host range. |
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Adam Toninato | M.S. | IPM specifically of Japanese Beetles |
Bill Hutchison |
Henrique Victor Vieira | M.S. | Integrated pest management solutions for crop production related to Western Corn Rootworm - Diabrotica virgifera virgifera - and Northern Corn Rootworm - Diabrotica barberi (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) focused on scouting alternative for growers. |
Ken Ostlie |
Jake Wittman | Ph.D. | Dispersal of gypsy moth larvae |
Brian Aukema |
Graduate Students in Other Programs
Title | Degree | Areas of Interest | Advisor |
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Alyssa Gooding | Ph.D. | George Heimpel | |
Alexandra Grace Haynes | M.S. | Brian Aukema | |
Katie Klett | Ph.D. | Marla Spivak | |
Jessica Rootes | I will be studying a native insect called the eastern spruce budworm, or Choristoneura fumiferana. This moth is a pronounced disturbance agent on Isle Royale, but has not yet been studied there. My dissertation research will study the population dynamics of spruce budworm in northern Minnesota and on Isle Royale, and whether or not wolf reintroduction to the island has helped facilitate the regeneration of Balsam fir within canopy gaps caused by spruce budworm by suppressing excessive moose browse. |
Brian Aukema | |
Hailey Shanovich | Ph.D. | Brian Aukema |