Graduate Students
Apart from the Entomology Graduate Program (ENTM), graduate students advised by faculty members in the Department of Entomology may be enrolled in the Marine-Estuarine-Environmental Sciences Graduate Program (MEES) or in one concentration areas within the Biological Sciences Graduate Program (BISI), including:
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Michael Adu-Brew (he/him), MS Student, Krishnan Lab
Research: His research focuses on assessing the risk of pesticides on non-target insects, particularly monarch butterflies. [email protected] |
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Kristin Au, PhD student, Pick Lab
Research: [email protected] |
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Benjamin Burgunder (he/him), MS Student, Fritz Lab
Research: Studying the spatial and disease ecology of Culex mosquitoes and West Nile virus in the upper Midwest. [email protected] | PLS 3127 |
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Dongxu Chen, PhD Student, Hawthorne Lab
Research: The genetics of imidacloprid resistance in the Colorado potato beetle. [email protected] |
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Helen Craig, MS student, Lamp Lab
Research: The intersection of entomology and sustainability. Specifically, using cricket protein as a dietary supplement for dairy cattle to reduce the amount of methane they produce while maintaining quantity and quality of their dairy products. [email protected] | PLS 4124 |
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Jenan El-Hifnawi (she/her), MS Student, Espíndola Lab
Research: Her research seeks to explore the impacts of Ice Age glaciations on the diversification and range of several South Andean bee species using phylogeographic methods. [email protected] | PLS 3151 |
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Kathleen Ciola Evans (she/her), PhD Student, Espíndola Lab
Research: Exploring plant-pollinator mutualisms and edamame pollination in heterogeneous landscapes. [email protected] |
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Max Ferlauto, PhD Candidate, Burghardt Lab
Research: Studying the effects of suburban leaf litter raking on nutrient cycling and herbivore-parasitoid communities. [email protected] |
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Benjamin Gregory (he/him), PhD Student, Fritz Lab
Research: How the built environment shapes animal evolution, and how urban infrastructure can be designed to facilitate more mutualistic interactions between people and wildlife. Aims to uncover patterns of adaptive genomic divergence and gene flow among Culex pipiens assemblage members along an urban-rural gradient in greater Washington, D.C. [email protected] |
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Allison Huysman, PhD Student, Gruner Lab
Research: She researches cavity nesting birds and how they can contribute to pest control in working landscapes. [email protected] |
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Leo Kerner (he/him), MS Student, Hooks Lab
Research: His focus is on developing ecologically and economically sustainable solutions in agriculture using living mulches. Currently he is looking into the effects of using a red clover living mulch on suppressing insect pests, improving beneficial arthropod numbers, and reducing weed invasion. [email protected] | PLS 4146 |
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Minh Le, PhD Candidate, Pick Lab
Research: Regulatory genes involved in hemipteran development. [email protected] |
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Theresa Menna, PhD Student, CBBG, Fritz Lab
Research: A primary objective of Menna’s research is to characterize the genetic basis for host preference using the northern house mosquito, Culex pipiens. [email protected] |
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Megan Ma (they/them), PhD Student, Shultz Lab | ORCID
Research: Studying the evolution and functional morphology of trap-jaw spider chelicerae, specifically how the interplay between form and function can allow chelicerae to be optimized as multi-tasking structures. [email protected] |
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Mintong Nan, PhD Candidate, St. Leger Lab
Research: How circadian rhythms affect Metarhizium infection of Drosophila. [email protected] |
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Lasair M. Ní Chochlain (she/they), MS Student, Hamby Lab
Research: Understanding and predicting the effects of climate change on IPM of soybean and other crops [email protected] |
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Justin O'Neill , PhD Student, BEES, Espíndola Lab
Research: Insect ecology and conservation, specifically pollinators in endangered Serpentine Grasslands [email protected] |
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Eva Perry, MS Student, Burghardt Lab
Research: Trophic relationships between native plants, their insect herbivores, and the arthropod predators that prey on these herbivores. [email protected] |
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Brendan Randall, PhD Candidate, Burghardt Lab
Research: Studying the legume-rhizobium mutualism in soybean plants and its effects on trophic interactions as well as potential mechanisms for enhancing pest management strategies in agroecosystems [email protected] |
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Tais Ribeiro (she/her), PhD Candidate, Espíndola Lab
Research: Studying the evolution of floral host specializations in oil-collecting bee genus Chalepogenus. [email protected] |
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Ángela Sáenz (she/her), PhD Candidate, Gruner Lab
Research: Studying the phenology of the invasive forest pest Emerald Ash Borer and life cycle synchronization with its introduced natural enemies. [email protected] |
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Robert Salerno, MS Student, Lamp Lab
Research: Investigating subterranean arthropods and natural enemies of semi-natural habitats within agroecosystems. [email protected] |
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Huiyu Sheng (she/her), PhD Candidate, St. Leger Lab
Research: Studying entomo-pathogenic fungi and their relationship with both plants and insects. [email protected] |
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Graham Stewart (he/him/his), PhD Candidate, Palmer Lab
Research: Studying carbon cycling in restored and natural freshwater wetlands. [email protected] |
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Aileen Taylor, PhD Student, BISI, Palmer Lab
Research: Studying diurnal patterns of methane cycling in restored and natural freshwater wetland [email protected] |
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Samantha Nicole Turner-Rosa, PhD student, BEES, Espíndola & Gruner Lab
Research: Pollination biology of mangroves [email protected] |
