Entomology Graduate Students

Agnes Abera	Caryn Andersen	Beth Butin	Julie Callahan
aberakan"at"ent.umass.edu	caryn"at"ent.umass.edu	eebutin"at"ent.umass.edu	callahan"at"bio.umass.edu
Van Driesche Lab	Van Driesche Lab & Hazzard Group	Elkinton Lab	Van Driesche Lab
Biological control of banana weevil in Uganda.	Management and ecology of flea beetles.	Biological control and cold-hardiness of the hemlock woolly adelgid.	Invasive species education and outreach.
PhD - Entomology	MS -Entomology	MS - Entomology	MS - Entomology
Tim Davis	Bibiana Garcia-Bailo	Matt Gruwell	Aaron Haselton
tjdavis00"at"yahoo.com	bibianica"at"yahoo.com	gruwell"at"ent.umass.edu	haselton"at"ent.umass.edu
Averill Lab	Elkinton Lab	Normark Lab	Stoffolano Lab
Blunt-nosed cranberry leafhopper and sharp-nosed leafhopper ecology and disease-vector relationships in wild cranberry bogs.	Vertical migrating behavior of Gypsy moth larvae.	The molecular systematics of armored scale Insects and the phylogenetic distribution of Wolbachia-like endosymbionts within armored scales.	Neuroendocrine involvement in the feeding physiology of flies.
PhD - Entomology	MS - OEB	PhD -Entomology	PhD - Entomology
Chad Hoefler	Sara Hoffmann	Woojin Kim	Un Taek Lim
chadh"at"ent.umass.edu	shoffman"at"ent.umass.edu	wjkim"at"ent.umass.edu	utlim"at"ent.umass.edu
Jakob Lab	Prokopy Lab	Burand Lab	Van Driesche Lab
Sexual selection and mating system of jumping spiders.	Behavioral management of apple maggot flies in apple orchards.	Analysis of Hz-2v genome structure and late gene expression and gene expression using recombinant baculovirus.	Biological control of western flower thrips by the parasitic nematode Thripinema nicklewoodii.
PhD - Entomology/OEB	MS -Entomology	PhD -Entomology	PhD - Entomology
Heping Lin	Ben McGraw	Tara Murray	Jaime Pinero
heping"at"ent.umass.edu	bmcgraw"at"ent.umass.edu	tjmurray"at"ent.umass.edu	jpinero"at"ent.umass.edu
Yin Lab	Averill Lab	Van Driesche Lab	Prokopy Lab
Action of neuropeptides that control biosynthesis of juvenile hormone in Phormia regina.	Assessment of egg parasitoids of cranberry fruitworm in wild bogs for use in commercial cranberry bogs.	Host specificity of insect parasitoids and factors affecting test protocols used to determine host range breadth.	Temporal and spatial patterns of plum curculio immigration into apple orchards in response to odor-baited traps, and factors influencing trap effectiveness.
MS - Entomology	MS -Entomology	PhD -Entomology	MS/PhD - Entomology
Lisa Provencher	Nikki Rothwell	Makiri Sei	Stephen Thomas
provench"at"ent.umass.edu	rothwell"at"ent.umass.edu	makiri"at"nsm.umass.edu	sthomas"at"ent.umass.edu
Normark Lab	Vittum Lab	Porter Lab	Elkinton Lab
Molecular systematics of a sexual and parthenogentic species complex of the armored scale Aspidiotus nerii.	Annual bluegrass weevil life history, emergence, developmental physiology and behavior.	Conservation of an endangered butterfly: the maritime ringlet.	Evolution of a fungal pathogen of Lymantria dispar, the gypsy moth.
MS - Entomology	PhD-Entomology	PhD - OEB	PhD - Entomology
Baiqing Wang	Erik Wenninger
bwang"at"nsm.umass.edu	wenninger"at"ent.umass.edu
Porter Lab	Averill Lab
Genetic mapping of sympatric introgression in hybridizing Colias butterflies.	Management of oriental beetle (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) in cranberry using sex pheromones.
PhD - Entomology/OEB	PhD-Entomology

Additional entomology students in the final stages of completing paperwork for their degree in Entomology include:

Chris Rallis and Nagendra Sharma

Graduate students associated with Entomology through the Clark Lab include:

Robin Edwards, Rich Frisbie, Ben Gerade, Hyo-Jeong Kim, Ray Putnam, Steve Symington, and Kyong-Sup Yoon