Education:
B.S. Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, 1977, Biology
, magna cum laude
Ph.D. Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 1982, Ecology
Research Interests:
Ecology of Orius insidiosus in corn, use of Trichogramma
in biological control in sweet corn, vegetational diversity and
conservation of natural enemies, biological control of purple loosestrife,
conservation and recovery of Karner blue butterfly, biotechnology
science policy, ecology of insect species invasions, host plant
resistance in corn, resistance management of transgenic plants.
Teaching Interests:
Insect Ecology (Ent 5040), Ecology of Agriculture (Ent 5320), Colloquium
on Insect Ecology (Ent 8240) numerous guest lectures, co-organized
two symposia on sustainable Agriculture at the University of Minnesota.
International Activities:
Invited speaker in 8 international conferences; Tungro virus review
team, IRRI, LosBaños, Philippines
Participant in the International Project on GMO Environmental Risk Assessment Methodologies
Selected Peer-Reviewed Publications 2002-2006:
Andow, D. A., and A. R. Ives. 2002. Monitoring and adaptive resistance management. Ecological Applications 12:1378-1390.
Ives, A. R., and D. A. Andow. 2002. Evolution of resistance to Bt crops: directional selection in structured environments. Ecology Letters 5:792-801.
Andow, D. A., and D. M. Olson. 2003. Inheritance of host finding ability on structurally complex surfaces. Oecologia 136:324-328.
Bourguet, D., J. Chaufaux, M. Seguin, C. Buisson, J. L. Hinton, T. J. Stodola, P. Porter, G. Cronholm, L. L. Buschman, and D. A. Andow. 2003. Frequency of alleles conferring resistance to Bt maize in French and US corn belt populations of the European corn borer, Ostrinia nubilalis. Theoretical and Applied Genetics 106:1225-1233.
Harmon, J. P., E. E. Hladilek, J. L. Hinton, T. J. Stodola, and D. A. Andow. 2003. Herbivore response to vegetational diversity: spatial interaction of resources and natural enemies. Population Ecology 45:75-81.
Haygood, R., A. R. Ives, and D. A. Andow. 2003. Consequences of recurrent gene flow from crops to wild relatives. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences 270:1879-1886.
Lane, C. P., and D. A. Andow. 2003. Oak savanna subhabitat variation and the population biology of Lycaeides melissa samuelis (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 96:799-809.
Neuhauser, C., D. A. Andow, G. E. Heimpel, G. May, R. G. Shaw, and S. Wagenius. 2003. Community genetics: expanding the synthesis of ecology and genetics. Ecology 84:545-558.
Andow, D. A., and A. Hilbeck. 2004. Science-based risk assessment for nontarget effects of transgenic crops. Bioscience 54:637-649.
Harmon, J. P., and D. A. Andow. 2004. Indirect effects between shared prey: predictions for biological control. BioControl 49:605-626.
Haygood, R., A. R. Ives, and D. A. Andow. 2004. Population genetics of transgene containment. Ecology Letters 7:213-220.
Stodola, T. J., and D. A. Andow. 2004. F2 Screen Variations and Associated Statistics. Journal of Economic Entomology 97:1756-1764.
Boody, G., B. Vondracek, D. A. Andow, M. Krinke, J. Westra, J. Zimmerman, and P. Welle. 2005. Multifunctional agriculture in the United States. Bioscience 55:27-38.
Heimpel, G. E., C. Neuhauser, and D. A. Andow. 2005. Natural enemies and the evolution of resistance to transgenic insecticidal crops by pest insects: The role of egg mortality. Environmental Entomology 34:512-526.
Schellhorn, N. A., and D. A. Andow. 2005. Response of coccinellids to their aphid prey at different spatial scales. Population Ecology 47:71-76.
Snow, A. A., D. A. Andow, P. Gepts, E. M. Hallerman, A. Power, J. M. Tiedje, and L. L. Wolfenbarger. 2005. Genetically engineered organisms and the environment: Current status and recommendations. Ecological Applications 15:377-404.
White, J. A., and D. A. Andow. 2005. Host-parasitoid interactions in a transgenic landscape: spatial proximity effects of host density. Environmental Entomology 34:1493-1500.
Zwahlen, C., and D. A. Andow. 2005. Field evidence for the exposure of ground beetles to Cry1Ab from transgenic corn. Environmental Biosafety Research 4:113-117.
Andow, D. A., and C. Zwahlen. 2006. Assessing environmental risks of transgenic plants. Ecology Letters 9:196-214.
Books edited
Andow, D. A. 2004. A growing concern: Protecting the food supply in an era of pharmaceutical and industrial crops. Union of Concerned Scientists, Boston, MA.
Hilbeck, A., D. A. Andow, and E. M. G. Fontes. 2006. Environmental risk assessment of genetically modified organisms. Volume 2: methodologies for assessing Bt cotton in Brazil. CABI Publishing, Wallingford, UK.
Consensus reports (co-author)
NRC (National Research Council). 2002. Environmental effects of transgenic plants: The scope and adequacy of regulation. National Academy Press, Washington, DC. 320 pp.
IPGRI (International Plant Genetic Resources Institute). 2004. Final Report on technical issues associated with the development of CGIAR policies to address the possibility of adventitious presence of transgenes in CGIAR ex situ collections. International Plant Genetic Resources Institute, Rome. 25 pp.
CEC (Commission for Environmental Cooperation). 2004. Maize and biodiversity: The effects of transgenic maize in Mexico: Key findings and recommendations. Commission for Environmental Cooperation, Montreal. 35 pp.
Undergraduate, Graduate & Postdoctoral Students Advised:
Li Jianbo, M.S., Entomology 1989
Tiel T. Bryja, M.S., Ecology 1990
Michael Muscari, M.S., Ecology 1992
Jennifer R. Edgerton, Ph.D., Ecology 1997
Dawn M. Olson, Ph.D., Entomology , 1997
Nancy A. Schellhorn, Ph.D., Entomology, 1998
Cynthia Lane, Ph.D., Conservation Biology, 1999
Carolyn Carr, M.S., Conservation Biology (Co-advisor), 2000
Jason Harmon, Ph.D. Entomology, 2003
Jennifer White, Ph.D., EEB, 2005
Yang Hu, Ph.D. Entomology
Adam Zeilinger, Ph.D., Conservation Biology
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