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	David Andow Distinguished McKnight University Professor Ph.D., Cornell University Insect population ecology; biological control; ecology of invading species; insect-plant interactions; sustainable agriculture.
	Brian Aukema McKnight Land-Grant Assistant Professor Ph.D., University of Wisconsin. Forest Entomology
	Ann Fallon Distinguished McKnight University Professor Ph.D., Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario. Insect reproduction; fat body metabolism; hormonal control of gene expression; genetics of insect cells in culture; gene amplification; DNA mediated gene transfer; identification of regulatory sequences in insect genes; mechanisms of insecticide resistance
	Len Ferrington Professor Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh Aquatic Entomology
	George Heimpel Professor and Director of Graduate Studies Ph.D. U of California, Davis. Biological Control, Natural Enemy Ecology
	Ralph Holzenthal Professor Ph.D., Clemson University, 1985 Systematics and biogeography of neotropical Trichoptera; aquatic entomology; biodiversity; biogeography; museum administration and management
	Bill Hutchison Professor and Head Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1984. Insect ecology and integrated pest management in vegetable and forage crops; simulation modeling of population dynamics, sampling and economic thresholds
	Stephen Kells Associate Professor and Extension Entomologist Ph.D., Purdue University, 1998. Urban and industrial entomology
	Robert L. Koch Assistant Professor and Extension Entomologist Ph.D., University of Minnesota
	Vera Krischik Associate Professor Ph.D., University of Maryland Plant-insect interaction; plant response to insect, pathogen, and abiotic stresses; extension insect pest management in residential environments; landscape and structural entomology
	Tim Kurtti Professor Ph.D., University of Minnesota Insect microbiology; physiology of insect-microbial interactions; physiology, metabolism and genetics of insect cells and pathogens in culture
	Ian MacRae Associate Professor and Extension Entomologist Ph.D. Oregon State U. Integrated Pest Management, Small Grains, Biological Control, GIS
	Karen Mesce Professor Ph.D., University of Oregon Insect neurobiology and behavior; hormonal control of neural development during metamorphosis; characterization of neural circuitry by electrophysiological and anatomical studies Mesce Lab
	Roger Moon Professor Ph.D., University of California, Davis Ecology and management of livestock insects and mites; biological control of dung and manure inhabiting flies; mosquito ecology and dispersal; modeling and sampling insect populations
	Ulrike Munderloh Associate Professor DVM, PHD, Ludwig-Maximilian University, Munich, Germany. Cellular and molecular relationship between tick-borne pathogens and their vectors, and mammalian hosts; medical and entomological aspects of vector-borne pathogens
	Ken Ostlie Professor and Extension Entomologist Ph.D., Iowa State University Integrated pest management in corn and soybeans, Transgenic Plants
	Marla Spivak MacArthur Fellow (2010) Distinguished McKnight University Professor Ph.D., University of Kansas Apiculture; population biology, ecology, genetics and breeding of honey bees; social insects
	Susan Weller Professor of Entomology and Head, Bell Museum of Natural History Ph.D., University of Texas, 1989 Systematics of Lepidoptera and other insects, using morphology and biochemical techniques (eg., DNA sequencing); evolution of mating behaviors and defense mechanisms in neotropical noctuid moths

Additional Graduate Faculty Members

	Karen Oberhauser Adjunct Associate Professor Department of Fisheries Wildlife & Cons Biology Ph. D. University of Minnesota, Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior Invertebrate conservation and ecology, with particular interest in monarch butterflies; Citizen Science and ecological monitoring; Promoting a citizenry with a high degree of scientific and environmental literacy.
	Susan M. Palchick Adjunct Associate Professor Ph.D. U of California-Davis Hennepin County Community Health Department
	David Ragsdale Adjunct Professor Ph.D., Louisiana State University Insect vectors of plant disease, specializing in immunodiagnostics of plant and insect pathogens; integrated management of vector borne diseases of vegetable crops; biological control of weeds Head, Department of Entomology, Texas A&M University
	Emilie Snell-Rood Adjunct Assistant Professor Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior Ph.D., University of Arizona Developmental mechanism of plasticity and how it determines the costs and constraints of plasticity. The role of relaxed selection as a limit on the evolution of alternate developmental pathways
	Luke C. Skinner Adjunct Assistant Professor, Invasive Species Program Supervisor, Minn. Dept. of Natural Resources Ph.D., University of Minnesota Biological control of invasive plants;invasive species management; Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
	Paul P. Tinerella Curator, University of Minnesota Insect Collection (UMSP) Adjunct Assistant Professor Ph.D., North Dakota State University Taxonomy, systematics, and evolution of true bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera), especially aquatic and semiaquatic groups; Nearctic water beetle (Coleoptera) taxonomy and faunistics; paleoentomology; biological systematics & evolution; biodiversity informatics. Tinerella Lab: Water Bug Systematics
	Rob Venette Adjunct Associate Professor Ph.D., University of California, Davis, Ecology Research focuses on the invasion biology and population ecology of exotic species
	George D. Weiblen Adjunct Associate Professor in EEB Ph.D., Harvard University Biology Systematics, Co-evolution

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