United States Department of Agriculture - Agricultural Research Service, Hilo, HI 96720, USA
Interests: coffee berry borer; integrated pest management; sustainable agriculture; insect ecology; plant systematics; tropical agriculture; physical crop barriers; area-wide pest management; Hawaii
Dr. Costanza Jucker
Dr. Costanza Jucker
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Department of Food, Environmental and Nutritional Sciences, University of Milan, Via Celoria 2, 20133 Milan, Italy
Interests: invasive insect species; biological control; monitoring; parasitoids; insects for protein production; Hermetia illucens; bioconversion; bioehtology
Department of Entomology & Plant Pathology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695-7647, USA
Interests: urban entomology; ticks; vector biology and Insect-microbe interactions
Dr. Megha Kalsi
Dr. Megha Kalsi
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Institute of Molecular Biology & Biotechnology, Foundation for Research & Technology - Hellas, Nikolaou Plastira 100, GR-70013 Heraklion, Crete, Greece
Interests: insecticide resistance; toxicology; insect molecular physiology; xenobiotic detoxification; biotechnology
Biological Control of Insects Research Laboratory, USDA-ARS, Columbia, MO 65203, USA
Interests: Culex; Aedes; Drosophila; diapause; innate immunity; dengue; insulin; juvenile hormone; transcriptomic; genomic; metagenomic; QTL; GWAS; microbiome; metagenome
Dr. Jessica Kevill
Dr. Jessica Kevill
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Department of Veterinary Population Medicine, University of Minnesota, St.
Paul, MN 55113, USA
Interests: pathogens; viruses; deformed wing virus; social insects; honey bees
Dr. Ai Kitazumi
Dr. Ai Kitazumi
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Department of Plant and Soil Science, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, USA
Interests: molecular basis of transgressive segregation; integration of genomics; epigenetics; transcriptome profiling; genome assembly of non-model species; genotyping variants in breeding population
Dr. Małgorzata Kłyś
Dr. Małgorzata Kłyś
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Associate Professor of Institute of Biology, Department of Ecology and Environmental Protection, Pedagogical University of Kraków, Podchorążych 2, 30-084 Kraków, Poland
Interests: stored product insect biology and ecology; non-chemical insect pest control; protection of stored food products
Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture and Landscape Architecture, University of Life Sciences in Lublin, 20-069 Lublin, Poland
Interests: aphids; galling insects; insect-plant interactions; plant pests
Department of Entomology and Agrilife Research, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA
Interests: Aedes; Anopheles; Culex; transgenesis; CRISPR/Cas9; Plasmodium; salivary glands; arbovirus; promoter; gene expression
Dr. Kazumu Kuramitsu
Dr. Kazumu Kuramitsu
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Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba 305-8572, Japan
Interests: parasitoid; woodwasp; Siricidae; Ibaliidae; Ibalia; Tremex; HIPV
Department of Entomology, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany
Interests: insect physiology; plant insect interactions; bioinformatics; genomics; transcriptomics; proteomics
Entomology and Tropical Parasitology Laboratory, Morphology Department, Federal University of Sergipe, São Cristóvão 49107-230, Brazil
Interests: medical entomologia; vector
Dr. Alice Laciny
Dr. Alice Laciny
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2nd Zoological Department, Natural History Museum Vienna, Burgring 7, 1010 Vienna, Austria
Interests: myrmecology; integrative taxonomy; parasitology; morphology; morphometry; evodevo; social Insects; caste evolution; phenotypic integration
Dr. Sriyanka Lahiri
Dr. Sriyanka Lahiri
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Department of Entomology and Nematology, Gulf Coast Research and Education Center, University of Florida, 14625 CR 672, Wimauma, FL 33598, USA
Interests: biological control; invasive insect; host plant resistance; integrated pest management; strawberry; small fruit crops; thrips; mites; stink bugs; aphids
Dr. Chloe Lahondere
Dr. Chloe Lahondere
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Department of Biochemistry, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA
Interests: mosquito; kissing bug; thermal biology; neuroethology; physiology
Dr. Anu Lähteenmäki-Uutela
Dr. Anu Lähteenmäki-Uutela
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Finnish Environment Institute, Environmental Policy Center, Latokartanonkaari 11, 00790 Helsinki, Finland
Interests: law; regulation; just transition; innovation; marketing
School of Plant, Environmental and Soil Sciences, Louisiana State University Agricultural Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70802, USA
Interests: IPM; toxicology; row crops; stored product insects; fruit crops; plant resistance
Dr. Gabriel Zorello Laporta
Dr. Gabriel Zorello Laporta
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Centro Universitário Saúde ABC, Santo Andre, SP 09060-870, Brazil
Interests: medical entomology; community ecology; epidemiology infection; entomology; conservation biology; tropical diseases; epidemiological analysis; infectious disease; epidemiology ecology; parasitic diseases
Semiochemicals Laboratory, Embrapa Genetic Resources and Biotechnology, Brasília 70770-917, Brazil
Interests: insect behavior; behavioral ecology; chemical ecology; biotremology
Dr. Sarah Page Lawson
Dr. Sarah Page Lawson
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Department of Biological Sciences, Quinnipiac University, Hamden, CT 06518, USA
Interests: social insects; pollinator health and nutrition; native bees; social aphids
Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Thorvaldsensvej 40, DK-1871 Frederiksberg C, Copenhagen, Denmark
Interests: insect pathology; behaviour; food and feed; production
Dr. Kwang-Zin Lee
Dr. Kwang-Zin Lee
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Fraunhofer Institute for Molecular Biology and Applied Ecology IME, Branch of Bioresources, Pest and Vector Control Department, Ohlebergsweg 12, D35392 Giessen, Germany
Interests: insect pathogens; insect virus; entomopathogenic fungi; entomopathogenic bacteria; biocontrol; honeybee immunity; host-pathogen interactions
Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, BST S733, 200 Lothrop St, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA
Interests: Galleria mellonella; fungi; Infection; immunity; antimicrobial agents
Research School of Biology, ANU College of Science, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Interests: phylogenetics; phylogenomics; bioinformatics; evolution; mitochondrial genome
Texas A&M University Health Sciences Center, 4353D MREB II, 8447 Riverside Parkway, Bryan, TX 77807, USA
Interests: tumorgenesis; entomology; molecular evolution; Drosophila; immunity; metabolism
Dr. Xuankun Li
Dr. Xuankun Li
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Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, McGuire Center, 3215 Hull Road, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA
Interests: systematic entomology; phylogenetics; Diptera; target capture; mitochondrial genome; insects
Department of Entomology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Interests: honeybee; environmental stress; toxicology; phytochemicals; galling insects
Prof. Dr. Tamara Nunes Lima-Camara
Prof. Dr. Tamara Nunes Lima-Camara
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Laboratório de Entomologia em Saúde Pública, Departamento de Epidemiologia, Faculdade de Saúde Pública da Universidade de São Paulo, FSP-USP, São Paulo 21040-904, SP, Brazil
Interests: Aedes aegypti; Aedes albopictus; Culicidae; mosquito vectors; mosquito-borne arboviruses; circadian activity; locomotor activity; vertical transmission; vector competence; ecology of mosquito vectors
Università degli Studi dii Milano
Interests: insects; stored product insects; aphids; Psocoptera