November 23, 2009
College of Chemical and Life Science

Adjunct/Affiliate Faculty

  Brust, Gerald: Affiliate Professor.
IPM Vegetable Specialist. Lower Eastern Shore Research and Education Center. Integrated pest management (IPM) programs in organic and commercial vegetable production systems. http://mdvegetables.umd.edu/
jbrust@umd.edu
D. Davis Davis, Donald: Adjunct Professor.
Research Entomologist, Department of Entomology, National Museum of Natural History. Biodiversity, phylogeny, biogeography, and classification of primitive Lepidoptera.
davisd@si.edu
C. Labandeira

Labandeira, Conrad: Adjunct Professor.
Research Scientist and Curator of Fossil Arthropods, Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History. Plant-insect associations in the fossil record; insect paleoecology and evolution of terrestrial ecosystems; early Devonian ecosystems and the origin of arthropod terrestriality.
labandecat SI dot EDU
J. Lill Lill, John: Adjunct Associate Professor. Department of Biological Sciences, George Washington University. Insect population and community ecology, herbivory, host-parastioid interactions and life history evolution in Lepidoptera.
lillj@gwu.edu
  Lingafelter, Steven W.: Adjunct Associate Professor.
Research Entomologist, Systematic Entomology Laboratory, USDA. Systematics of weevils (Curculionidae) and longhorned woodboring beetles (Cerambycidae) with emphasis on Nearctic and Neotropical clades.
steve [dot ] lingafelter [at] ars [dot] usda [dot] gov

W. Mathis Mathis, Wayne: Adjunct Professor.
Research Entomologist, Department of Entomology, National Museum of Natural History. Discovery of relationships among the diversity of beach and shore flies (Diptera: Canacidae, Coelopidae, Dryomyzidae, Ephydridae, Odiniidae, Periscelididae, Tethinidae) and their bearing on historical biogeography.
mathisw@si.edu

  Miller, Douglass: Adjunct Professor.
Emeritus Research Entomologist, Systematic Entomology Laboratory, USDA. Systematics of Coccoidea (scale insects; Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha).
D. O'Brochta O'Brochta, David: Affiliate Professor.
Professor, Center for Biosystems Research, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute. Insect molecular genetics; genetics, molecular genetics, and population genetics of transposable elements; transgenic insect research, development, and application; insect vectors of disease.
obrochta@umbi.umd.edu

U. Pal Pal, Utpal: Affiliate Assistant Professor. VA-MD Regional College of Veterinary Medicine. Biology and molecular genetics of arthropod vectors, Host-pathogen interaction and Microbial pathogenesis.
upal@umd.edu

J. Regier Regier, Jerome: Affiliate Professor.
Professor, Center for Biosystems Research, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute. Arthropod phylogenomics.
regier@umbi.umd.edu

R. Robbins Robbins, Robert: Adjunct Professor.
Research Entomologist, Department of Entomology, National Museum of Natural History. Systematics of butterflies, evolution of relationships among butterflies, especially Lycaenidae.
robbinsr@si.edu

M. Schauff Schauff, Michael: Adjunct Professor.
Associate Director, Plant Sciences Institute, USDA. Systematics of Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera), in particular the families Eulophidae, Mymaridae, and Aphelinidae.
Michael [dot] Schauff [at] ars [dot] usda [dot] gov
 

Scheffer, Sonja: Adjunct Associate Professor.
Research Entomologist, Systematic Entomology Laboratory, USDA. Molecular systematics of agriculturally important insects with special emphasis on leafmining flies.
sonja [dot] scheffer [at] ars [dot] usda [dot] gov


T. Schultz Schultz, Ted R.: Adjunct Professor.
Chair and Research Entomologist, Department of Entomology, National Museum of Natural History. Evolution and systematics of ants, especially the fungus-growing ants (Myrmicinae: Attini); historical ecology and evolution of the fungus-growing behavior; theory and methodology of phylogenetic analysis, including Bayesian statistical approaches and the reconstruction of ancestral character states; quantitative methods for assessing ant biodiversity.
schultzt@si.edu


L. Wu Wu, Louisa: Affiliate Associate Professor.
Associate Professor, Center for Biosystems Research, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute. Host defense against pathogens; signal transduction and cell signaling in the innate immune response in insects.
wul@umbi.umd.edu