Sara Via

Portrait of Sara Via

Sara Via

Professor
301 405 3940
svia@umd.edu Plant Sciences Building

Graduate Program Affiliations

Entomology

Research

Dr. Via is currently focused on climate change outreach and extension. Previous work in the Via Lab dealt with the genetics of insect-plant interactions, the genetic architecture of local adaptation and host plant specialization in pea aphids, and evolutionary genetics of speciation. 

Education

Ph.D., Duke University, 1983
M.S., Australian National University, Canberra, 1976
B.A., Duke University, 1974