Benjamin B. Normark

Associate Professor of Entomology
Department of Plant, Soil & Insect Sciences
Fernald Hall 204B
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA 01003
Tel. (413) 577-3780
bnormark@ent.umass.edu

Education

1994, Ph.D., Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University
1985, B.A., Linguistics, Yale University. Magna cum laude

Specialties

• Systematics and evolution of armored scale insects (Hemptera: Diaspididae)
• Phylogeny and evolution of maternally transmitted endosymbiotic bacteria in insects
• Evolution of haplodiploidy
• Evolution of sex
• Genetic conflict

For more information about Dr. Normark and his research personnel and programs, please go to:

http://people.umass.edu/bnormark/lab/Home.html