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Student Directory
Adedire,Oluseyi
Bailey, Derek
Cheng, Qunkang
Clark, Justin
Curler, Greg
Dilling, Carla
Haddow, Andrew
Hadziabdic, Denita
Hansen, Jason
Hulvey, John
Jacobson, Amanda
Lindner, Ben
Patterson, Russell
Rhoades, Paul
Strohmeier, Clinton
Toennisson, Aurora
Torrijos, Anais
Wadl, Phillip
Wiggins, Greg
Willis, Johnathan
Wilson, Michael
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Contact: oadedire@utk.edu |
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Contact: dbailey4@utk.edu |
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Contact: qcheng1@utk.edu |
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My research focuses on assisting a large greenhouse producer in middle Tennessee that has recently began experiencing epidemics of Corynespora leaf spot caused by Corynespora cassiicola. I'm currently conducting fungicidal resistance trials, temperature sensitivity studies, and cultivar screens to better assist this producer with management strategies.
Contact: jclark@utk.edu |
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My research focuses on systematics of the Psychodidae (Diptera) using both morphological and molecular techniques. Currrent projects include development of species-specific primers for medically important psychodids of the subfamily Phlebotominal, construction of a phylogeny of psychodid subfamilies based on molecular data, and descriptions of new psychodid species from the southern Appalachians.
Contact: gcurler@utk.edu
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I am studying the effects of imidacloprid applications and horticultural oil treatment used to control the hemlock woolly adelgid on non-target canopy insects as well as quantifying the concentration of imidacloprid throughout various canapy levels in the hemlock tree.
Contact: cdillin1@utk.edu
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Contact: ahaddow@utk.edu |
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I was born and raised in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. I came to the States in 1999 to continue my education. In December of 2002, I received a B.S. in Agriculture/Horticulture. My next step was graduate school here at UT in the Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology under Dr. Bob Trigiano. My thesis project was titled In Vitro Regeneration of Cladrastis kentukea (American Yellowwood) and Cornus kousa (Kousa dogwood). Following my graduation, I took a job as a Plant Disease Diagnostician at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA. It was a great opportunity and a wonderful job, but I was not thrilled about the hurricanes. After a year of living in Cajun country, I decided to come back to TN, continue with my education and finish my Ph.D under, once again, Bob Trigiano. Currently, I am working on population genetics of Cornus florida (Flowering dogwood) throughout the southeastern United States.
Contact: dhadziab@utk.edu
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My research concentrates on insects systematics within the genus Synanthedon (Lepidoptera: Sesiidae) and investigation of the Chrysobothris femorata complex (Coleoptera: Burprestidae). I intend to show phylogenetic relationships between species and develop molecular diagnostic tools to separate them.
Contact: jhansen8@utk.edu |
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Contact: jhulvey@utk.edu |
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My research interests involve morphological and molecular systematics of the dipteron family Blephariceridae, net-winged midges Current research focuses on eastern Neoarctic Blepharicera species and molecular and morphological work on world genera. I am also part of a black fly suppression program working to control black fly populations using Bti in east Tennessee.
Contact: ajacobs7@utk.edu
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Contact: blindner@utk.edu |
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Contact: rpatter1@utk.edu |
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Contact:prhoades@utk.edu |
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Contact: cstrohme@utk.edu |
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Contact: atorrijo@utk.edu |
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Contact: pwadl@utk.edu |
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Non-target impacts of introduced biological control agents on native plants are becoming an increasing ecological concern. My research examines the effects of two adventive weevil species, Trichosirocalus horridus (Panzer) and Rhinocyllus conicus Froelich, which were released as biological control agents against the exotic invasive species musk thistle, Carduus nutans (L.), on non-target native and non-native thistles in Tennessee. One of these weevils, R. conicus, recently has been implicated in the infestation of native thistle species, including rare species, in the midwestern and western U.S. This research will address the environmental impacts of these two weevil species on musk thistle, as well as on other non-target thistle species, especially native thistles that have not been studied elsewhere. Spatial analysis, based on thistle populations located and observed during this study, will be used to predict areas where non-target activity may most-likely occur.
Contact: wiggybug@utk.edu |
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Contact: jdwillis@utk.edu
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Insect pollination services are becoming an increasing concern for society as Colony Collapse Disorder has left the honeybee industry vulnerable. In addition to honeybees, many native bees provide economically significant pollination services to a wide variety of crops. We plan to determine what native pollinators are providing services for blueberry and squash pollination in our area and how those species can be encouraged within the "farm-scape". There are native and non-native bee species other than Apis mellifera that are managed commercially for pollination of crops including, alfalfa, fruit crops, and greenhouse tomatoes. However, our research will concentrate on working with the local ecosystem to provide pollination services that could augment commercially reared pollinators and identify practices that make the farm environment more "friendly" to the survival of commercial pollinator colonies.
I also "dabble" in various honeybee work and research.
Contact: mwilson@utk.edu
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