The following graduate students are pursuing a degree in Entomology or are advised by a Entomology faculty member. For information about the Entomology Graduate Student Association (EGSA) please visit the EGSA webpage.
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Rachel Arango, email |
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Program: |
Entomology PhD |
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Start Term: |
Fall 2010 |
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Advisor: |
Kenneth Raffa |
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Committee: |
Daniel Young, Cameron Currie |
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Interest Area: |
Characteristics of termite populations in Wisconsin which include evaluation of genetic similarity using AFLP, interactions between termites and microorganisms and how they might play a role in protecting the colony |
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Craig Brabant, email, website |
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Program: |
Entomology PhD |
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Start Term: |
Fall 2003 |
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Advisor: |
Daniel Young |
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Committee: |
Mark Berres, Denis Brothers, David Hogg, Robert Jeanne |
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Interest Area: |
Taxonomy and systematics of aculeate Hymenoptera, especially Mutillidae |
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Wesley Brooks, email |
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Program: |
Statistics PhD |
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Start Term: |
Fall 2011 |
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Advisor: |
Jun Zhu |
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Christine Buhl, email, website |
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Program: |
Entomology PhD |
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Start Term: |
Fall 2008 |
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Advisor: |
Richard Lindroth |
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Committee: |
Claudio Gratton, R.Christopher Williamson, Randall Jackson, Brent McCown |
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Interest Area: |
Impacts of bioengineered biofuel on plant chemistry; plant susceptibility and invertebrate community composition |
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Hilary Bultman, email |
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Program: |
Zoology PhD |
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Start Term: |
Fall 2012 |
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Advisor: |
Richard Lindroth |
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Elissa Chasen, email, website |
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Program: |
Entomology PhD |
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Start Term: |
Fall 2009 |
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Advisor: |
Eileen Cullen |
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Committee: |
Daniel Undersander, Kenneth Raffa, David Hogg, Carrie Laboski |
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Interest Area: |
Integrated pest management for Potato Leafhoppers in alfalfa |
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Michael Crossley, email, website, cv/resume |
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Program: |
Entomology MS |
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Start Term: |
Spring 2012 |
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Advisor: |
David Hogg |
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Committee: |
Russell Groves, Kenneth Raffa, Andrew Bent |
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Interest Area: |
Plant resistance to aphids, aphid genomics and biotype evolution |
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Allison Dehnel, email |
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Program: |
Entomology MS |
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Start Term: |
Summer 2010 |
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Advisor: |
David Hogg |
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Committee: |
Claudio Gratton, Eileen Cullen, Daniel Young |
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Interest Area: |
Biological control, parasitoid-host interactions |
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Anna Deutsch, email |
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Program: |
Entomology MS |
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Start Term: |
Spring 2012 |
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Advisor: |
Shawn Steffan |
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Committee: |
David Hogg, R. Christopher Williamson, Jed Colquhoun |
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Interest Area: |
Mating disruption as a method of pest management in cranberry |
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Peter Devries, email, website |
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Program: |
Entomology PhD |
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Start Term: |
Fall 2003 |
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Advisor: |
Daniel Young |
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Committee: |
Robert Jeanne, Susan Paskewitz, Lyric Bartholomay, Philip Townsend |
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Interest Area: |
Biodiversity Informatics Semantic Web |
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Jamin Dreyer, email, website |
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Program: |
Zoology PhD |
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Start Term: |
Fall 2008 |
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Advisor: |
Claudio Gratton |
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Committee: |
Stephen Carpenter, Anthony Ives, Bobbi Peckarsky, M. Jake Vander Zanden |
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Interest Area: |
Cross-ecosystem flux, especially aquatic insects. Predator-prey interactions and community ecology. |
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Qiang Fu, email |
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Program: |
Entomology PhD |
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Start Term: |
Fall 2008 |
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Advisor: |
Que Lan |
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Committee: |
Walter Goodman, Susan Paskewitz, Russell Groves, James Ntambi |
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Rao Fu, email |
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Program: |
Statistics PhD |
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Start Term: |
Fall 2010 |
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Advisor: |
Jun Zhu |
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Committee: |
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Interest Area: |
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Hannah Gaines, email, website |
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Program: |
Zoology PhD |
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Start Term: |
Summer 2009 |
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Advisor: |
Claudio Gratton |
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Committee: |
Russell Groves, Donald Waller, Volker Radeloff, Neal Williams |
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Interest Area: |
Landscape ecology, agroecology, ecosystem services, pollination, native bees, habitat fragmentation |
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Kari Gullickson, email |
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Program: |
Entomology MS |
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Start Term: |
Fall 2010 |
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Advisor: |
Daniel Young |
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Committee: |
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Natalie Hernandez, email |
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Program: |
Entomology MS |
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Start Term: |
Summer 2010 |
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Advisor: |
Russell Groves |
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Committee: |
Daniel Young, David Hogg |
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Interest Area: |
Aphid flight dynamics in correlation with the spread of potato virus Y in commercial Wisconsin potatoes. |
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Anders Huseth, email |
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Program: |
Entomology PhD |
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Start Term: |
Summer 2007 |
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Advisor: |
Russell Groves |
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Committee: |
Claudio Gratton, David Hogg, Que Lan, Amanda Gevens |
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Interest Area: |
Sustainable vegetable production, integrated pest management, insect resistance management, area wide management of Colorado potato beetle, geospatial techniques to understand insect movements and cultural control tactics for potato |
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Julia Janicki, email |
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Program: |
Entomology MS |
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Start Term: |
Spring 2011 |
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Advisor: |
Daniel Young |
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Committee: |
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Interest Area: |
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Todd Johnson, email, website |
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Program: |
Entomology MS |
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Start Term: |
Fall 2011 |
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Advisor: |
Kenneth Raffa |
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Committee: |
Shawn Steffan, David Hogg |
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Interest Area: |
Behavior, geography, evolution, parasitic wasps, plant-insect interactions |
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Il Hwan Kim, email |
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Program: |
Entomology PhD |
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Start Term: |
Fall 2010 |
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Advisor: |
Que Lan |
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Committee: |
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Adam Krause, email |
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Program: |
Entomology MS |
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Start Term: |
Fall 2012 |
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Advisor: |
Kenneth Raffa |
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Committee: |
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Interest Area: |
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Scott Larson, email |
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Program: |
Entomology PhD |
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Start Term: |
Fall 2010 |
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Advisor: |
Susan Paskewitz |
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Committee: |
Jun Zhu, Kenneth Raffa, Eric Kruger, Philip Townsend |
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Interest Area: |
Vector-borne diseases, ecology of disease, Lyme disease, GIS |
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Xia Lee, email |
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Program: |
Entomology PhD |
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Start Term: |
Fall 2012 |
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Advisor: |
Susan Paskewitz |
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Committee: |
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Andrew Lerch, email |
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Program: |
Entomology and Forestry MS |
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Start Term: |
Summer 2009 |
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Advisor: |
Kenneth Raffa |
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Committee: |
Philip Townsend |
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Interest Area: |
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Joliene Lindholm, email |
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Program: |
Entomology PhD |
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Start Term: |
Fall 2007 |
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Advisor: |
Walter Goodman |
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Committee: |
Que Lan, Susan Paskewitz, David Wassarman, Nansi Colley |
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Interest Area: |
Insect physiology, insect juvenile hormone, molecular biology, biochemistry |
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Reid Maier, email |
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Program: |
Entomology PhD |
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Start Term: |
Spring 2013 |
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Advisor: |
R. Christopher Williamson |
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Committee: |
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Rachel Mallinger, email |
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Program: |
Entomology PhD |
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Start Term: |
Spring 2011 |
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Advisor: |
Claudio Gratton |
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Committee: |
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Charles Mason, email |
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Program: |
Entomology PhD |
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Start Term: |
Fall 2008 |
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Advisor: |
Kenneth Raffa |
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Committee: |
Claudio Gratton, Brent McCown, Cameron Currie, Jean-Michel Ane |
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Interest Area: |
Plant-herbivore interactions, symbiosis, defoliation |
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Jessica Mayry, email |
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Program: |
Entomology MS |
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Start Term: |
Fall 2012 |
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Advisor: |
Daniel Young and David Hogg |
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Committee: |
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Interest Area: |
Ground beetle diversity in agroecosystems- a project of the Wisconsin Integrated Cropping Systems Trials |
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Darby Murphy, email |
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Program: |
Public Health MPH |
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Start Term: |
Fall 2011 |
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Advisor: |
Susan Paskewitz |
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Committee: |
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Glen Obear, email |
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Program: |
Entomology and Soils MS |
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Start Term: |
Spring 2011 |
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Advisor: |
Robert (Chris) Williamson |
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Committee: |
Douglas Soldat, Daniel Young |
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Interest Area: |
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Emma Pelton, email |
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Program: |
Entomology and Agroecology MS |
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Start Term: |
Fall 2012 |
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Advisor: |
Claudio Gratton |
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Committee: |
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Jesse Pfammatter, email |
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Program: |
Entomology PhD and Biometry MS |
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Start Term: |
Fall 2007 |
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Advisor: |
Kenneth Raffa |
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Committee: |
Claudio Gratton, Daniel Mahr, Nancy Keller, Anthony Ives |
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Interest Area: |
Phoretic mites communities found on Ips pini and other wood boring beetles in Wisconsin red pine stands |
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Vera Pfeiffer, email |
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Program: |
Zoology PhD |
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Start Term: |
Fall 2012 |
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Advisor: |
Johanne Brunet |
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Committee: |
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Kaitlin Rienzo-Stack, email, website |
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Program: |
Zoology PhD |
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Start Term: |
Fall 2011 |
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Advisor: |
Claudio Gratton |
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Committee: |
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Interest Area: |
Soybean aphid population dynamics across Wisconsin; insect ecology; population biology; IPM; biofuels; generalist natural enemies; biological control; Darwinian agriculture |
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Emmanuel Santa-Martinez, email |
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Program: |
Entomology MS |
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Start Term: |
Summer 2012 |
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Advisor: |
Johanne Brunet |
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Committee: |
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Interest Area: |
Gene Flow, Pollination Biology, Evolution and Genetics, Plant Biology |
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Christopher Steward, email |
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Program: |
Public Health MPH |
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Start Term: |
Fall 2011 |
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Advisor: |
Susan Paskewitz |
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Committee: |
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Interest Area: |
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Margaret Thairu, email |
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Program: |
Entomology MS |
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Start Term: |
Summer 2011 |
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Advisor: |
Johanne Brunet |
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Committee: |
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Interest Area: |
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Andrew Thurman, email |
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Program: |
Statistics PhD |
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Start Term: |
Fall 2008 |
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Advisor: |
Jun Zhu |
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Committee: |
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Interest Area: |
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Johnny Uelmen, email |
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Program: |
Entomology MS |
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Start Term: |
Fall 2011 |
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Advisor: |
Kenneth Raffa & Richard Lindroth |
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Committee: |
Ezra Schwartzberg |
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Interest Area: |
Climate change and population source affects on Forest Tent Caterpillar egg hatch |
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Chen Zhang, email |
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Program: |
Plant Pathology PhD |
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Start Term: |
Fall 2011 |
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Advisor: |
Russell Groves |
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Committee: |
Amy Charkowski, Aurelie Rakotondrafara, Shelley Jansky, Jun Zhu |
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Last updated February 27, 2013
