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Entomology

Field Description

We house the oldest entomology program in the United States and has a world-wide impact on entomological research.

Our program has particular strengths in the following areas: insect-plant interactions and chemical ecology; insect-microbe interactions; pest-management and biological control; outreach, public education, and citizen science; and insect diversity and systematic entomology.

Contact Information

Website: https://cals.cornell.edu/entomology
Email: st342@cornell.edu
Phone: 607 255-6198

2134 Comstock Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY  14853

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Subject and Degrees

Entomology

Concentrations by Subject

Entomology

  • acarology
  • apiculture
  • applied entomology
  • aquatic entomology
  • biological control
  • general entomology (minor)
  • insect behavior
  • insect biochemistry
  • insect ecology
  • insect genetics
  • insect morphology
  • insect pathology
  • insect physiology
  • insect systematics
  • insect toxicology and insecticide chemistry
  • integrated pest management
  • medical and veterinary entomology

Faculty

Anurag Agrawal

  • Campus: Ithaca
  • Concentrations: Entomology: insect behavior; insect ecology
  • Research Interests: insect ecology; insect behavior

Nicolas S Buchon

  • Campus: Ithaca
  • Concentrations: Entomology: general entomology; insect genetics; insect physiology; medical and veterinary entomology

Bryan Nicholas Danforth

  • Campus: Ithaca
  • Concentrations: Entomology: insect behavior; insect ecology; insect morphology; insect systematics
  • Research Interests: morphology, molecular systematics and evolution of bees; social evolution; behavioral ecology; pollination biology

Jason Dombroskie

  • Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
  • Concentrations: Entomology: general entomology; insect morphology; insect systematics
  • Research Interests: insect systematics, general entomology, insect morphology

Christophe Duplais

  • Campus: Ithaca
  • Concentrations: Entomology: insect biochemistry; insect ecology; insect toxicology and insecticide chemistry; integrated pest management
  • Research Interests: Plant-insect interactions, insect-microbe symbiosis, insect chemical ecology, chemical application in pest management

Sara Elizabeth Emery

  • Campus: Ithaca
  • Concentrations: Entomology: applied entomology; biological control; insect ecology; integrated pest management
  • Research Interests: insect phenology, landscape ecology, management of insect pests in agricultural systems, biological control, community ecology, agroecology

Cole Gilbert

  • Campus: Ithaca
  • Concentrations: Entomology: general entomology; insect behavior; insect physiology
  • Research Interests: insect physiology; sensory systems; neural basis of behavior

Steven M Grodsky

  • Campus: Ithaca
  • Concentrations: Entomology: applied entomology; aquatic entomology; insect ecology
  • Research Interests: Renewable energy ecology and insect conservation

Laura Melissa Guzman Uribe

  • Campus: Ithaca
  • Concentrations: Entomology: insect ecology; insect genetics
  • Research Interests: Insect conservation, Community science data, Distributional modelling, Pollinator Biodiversity, Community Ecology

Laura C Harrington

  • Campus: Ithaca
  • Concentrations: Entomology: insect ecology; medical and veterinary entomology
  • Research Interests: medical entomology; mosquito biology; vector-borne disease ecology

Michelle L Heck

  • Campus: Ithaca
  • Concentrations: Entomology: general entomology; insect genetics; integrated pest management
  • Research Interests: vector-borne pathogens, vector biology, plant-insect interactions, citrus greening, psyllids, aphids, whiteflies, proteomics, mass spectrometry, protein interactions

Tory Hendry

  • Campus: Ithaca
  • Concentrations: Entomology: insect genetics; insect pathology; insect physiology
  • Research Interests: insect-microbe interactions

Georg Jander

  • Campus: Ithaca
  • Concentrations: Entomology: general entomology; insect behavior; insect biochemistry; insect genetics; insect physiology
  • Research Interests: Plant-insect interactions, plant amino acid metabolism

Brian Paul Lazzaro

  • Campus: Ithaca
  • Concentrations: Entomology: insect genetics; insect pathology
  • Research Interests: insect population genetics; insect immune defenses; molecular evolution; insect pathology

Gregory M. Loeb

  • Campus: Geneva
  • Concentrations: Entomology: applied entomology; biological control; insect ecology; integrated pest management
  • Research Interests: ecology; integrated pest management; viticulture

John E Losey

  • Campus: Ithaca
  • Concentrations: Entomology: applied entomology; biological control; insect behavior; integrated pest management
  • Research Interests: applied entomology; biocontrol; insect behavior; insect and ecology; integrated pest management

Brian Lovett

  • Campus: Ithaca
  • Concentrations: Entomology: biological control; general entomology; insect behavior; insect pathology; integrated pest management; medical and veterinary entomology
  • Research Interests: Insect pathology, entomopathogenic fungi, molecular genetics, evolutionary genomics, and mycology

Scott H. McArt

  • Campus: Ithaca
  • Concentrations: Entomology: general entomology; insect ecology
  • Research Interests: Chemical ecology; Insect-plant interactions; Pollination biology

Lindsey Ryan Milbrath

  • Campus: Ithaca
  • Concentrations: Entomology: biological control; integrated pest management
  • Research Interests: biological control; integrated pest management; biological and integrated control of invasive plants

Corrie Saux Moreau

  • Campus: Ithaca
  • Concentrations: Entomology: general entomology; insect behavior; insect ecology; insect morphology; insect systematics
  • Research Interests: evolution and ecology of insects, molecular systematics and phylogenetics, biogeography, insect associated microbes

Courtney Cuinn Murdock

  • Campus: Ithaca
  • Concentrations: Entomology: applied entomology; insect ecology; insect pathology; insect physiology
  • Research Interests: ecology and evolution of infectious diseases, vector-borne disease transmission, vector-pathogen interactions, medical entomology, statistical and mechanistic modeling

Brian A Nault

  • Campus: Geneva
  • Concentrations: Entomology: insect ecology; integrated pest management
  • Research Interests: landscape ecology; insect-transmitted viruses; population ecology; arthropod pest management in vegetable crops; native pollinators

Patrick Michael O'Grady

  • Campus: Ithaca
  • Concentrations: Entomology: insect systematics
  • Research Interests: phylogeny and taxonomy of Diptera: Drosophilidae; insect evolution

Katja Poveda

  • Campus: Ithaca
  • Concentrations: Entomology: applied entomology; insect behavior; insect ecology
  • Research Interests: landscape ecology; ecology of cropping systems; plant-insect interactions; agroecology

Alison G Power

  • Campus: Ithaca
  • Concentrations: Entomology: biological control; insect behavior; insect ecology; integrated pest management
  • Research Interests: agricultural ecology; ecology of cropping systems; ecology of insect vectors

Robert A. Raguso

  • Campus: Ithaca
  • Concentrations: Entomology: insect behavior
  • Research Interests: chemical communication between flowers and their pollinators; floral chemistry; insect behavior; sensory systems

Linda Susan Rayor

  • Campus: Ithaca
  • Concentrations: Entomology: insect behavior
  • Research Interests: spider and insect behavior; behavioral ecology; arachnology

Robert D. Reed

  • Campus: Ithaca
  • Concentrations: Entomology: insect genetics; insect morphology
  • Research Interests: evolution and development of butterfly wing patterns;strong organismal focus on insects - specifically Lepidoptera;insect biodiversity

Monique Joy Rivera

  • Campus: Ithaca
  • Concentrations: Entomology: applied entomology; biological control; insect behavior; insect ecology; insect toxicology and insecticide chemistry; integrated pest management
  • Research Interests: applied insect ecology; agricultural entomology; integrated pest management; soil ecology

Jeffrey Graham Scott

  • Campus: Ithaca
  • Concentrations: Entomology: insect biochemistry; insect genetics; insect physiology; insect toxicology and insecticide chemistry
  • Research Interests: insecticide resistance and mode of action; population genetics; evolutionary biology; gene regulation

Kerry L. Shaw

  • Campus: Ithaca
  • Concentrations: Entomology: insect genetics

Brent Sinclair

  • Campus: Ithaca
  • Concentrations: Entomology: applied entomology; insect biochemistry; insect ecology; insect physiology
  • Research Interests: Thermal biology, Metabolism, Environmental physiology, Insect overwintering

Mabel L Taracena

  • Campus: Ithaca
  • Concentrations: Entomology: insect genetics; insect physiology; medical and veterinary entomology
  • Research Interests: genetics, physiology, vector biology and vector control

Jennifer S. Thaler

  • Campus: Ithaca
  • Concentrations: Entomology: insect ecology
  • Research Interests: insect ecology

Ping Wang

  • Campus: Geneva
  • Concentrations: Entomology: insect biochemistry; insect genetics; insect pathology; insect physiology
  • Research Interests: insect biochemistry and molecular biology; molecular basis of insect-plant and insect-pathogen interactions

Kyle G. Wickings

  • Campus: Geneva
  • Concentrations: Entomology: insect ecology
  • Research Interests: soil arthropod ecology, turfgrass entomology,soil biogeochemistry, feedbacks between soil arthropod communities and ecosystem processes/services.

Samantha Anne Willden

  • Campus: Ithaca
  • Concentrations: Entomology: applied entomology; insect ecology; integrated pest management
  • Research Interests: controlled environment entomology, community ecology, fruit and vegetable crops

Beatriz Willink Castro

  • Campus: Ithaca
  • Concentrations: Entomology: insect behavior; insect genetics; insect systematics
  • Research Interests: insect evolution, evolution of sexual dimorphism and phenotypic polymorphisms, systematics and biogeography of Odonata