| Title | Degree | Areas of Interest | Advisor |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pheylan Anderson | M.S. | Cold hardiness and biology of soybean gall midge |
Robert Koch |
| 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 |
| Sabrina Celis | Ph.D. | Parasitoid wasps and their applications in biological control |
George Heimpel |
| Jay Delacy | M.S. | Biological control of spotted wing drosophila using Ganaspis brasiliensis |
Mary Rogers |
| 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 |
| Isabell Dyrbye Wright | M.S. | Honey bees |
Marla Spivak |
| 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 |
| Megan Jones | Ph.D. | Wolbachia genetics |
Amelia Lindsey |
| Sarah Lisak | Ph.D. | Biological Control of soybean gall midge |
Robert Koch Amelia Lindsey |
| Gloria Melotto | M.S. | Biological control of soybean gall midge. |
Bob Koch Amelia Lindsey |
| Ismael Ramirez Moreno | Ph.D. | Insect Biological Control for Conservation Biology |
George Heimpel |
| Mary Powley | Ph.D. | Native bees, including bumble bee occupancy modelling |
Dan Cariveau |
| Mauricio Ramirez | Ph.D. | Taxonomy and systematics of the subfamily Stactobiinae (Hydroptilidae). |
Robin Thomson |
| Maya Vellicolungara | M.S. | I’m comparing pollinator biodiversity in remnant and restored prairies. The pollinators I’ll be focusing on are bumblebees and butterflies. The restored prairies are a part of the Conservation Reserve Program, which incentivizes farmers to set aside land and plant native species on it. |
Dan Cariveau |
Graduate Students in Other Programs
| Title | Degree | Areas of Interest | Advisor |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alyssa Gooding | Ph.D. | George Heimpel | |
| Grace Graham | M.S. | Eastern larch beetle and tamarack defensive responses. Using a dendrochronological approach to understand why some individual trees are able to survive widespread outbreak events. |
Brian Aukema Marcella Windmueller-Campione |
| Katie Klett | Ph.D. | Marla Spivak | |
| Rose Picklo | M.S. | Influence of temperature on developmental thresholds of the eastern larch beetle, Dendroctonus simplex. |
Brian Aukema |
| Jessica Rootes | Ph.D. | 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 |