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Principal Investigators

Dr. Ed Vargo
Professor and Endowed Chair

 

Dr. Robert Puckett
Associate Professor and Extension 

 

 

Graduate Students 

Fabian List

 

Kuan-Ling (Kelly) Liu

 

Staff

Kyung-Seok Kim 
Research Scientist

 

Kyle Gilder
Research Associate

 

Admin assistant  

 

Alumni

Post Docs

Yuki Mitaka (2022 – 2024) Assistant Professor at Nagoya University, Japan

Graduate students

Alex Blumenfeld (2017-2022) – Environmental Protection Agency 

Phillip Shults (2013-2021) – Postdoc with USDA ARS

Carlos Aguero (2014-2020) 

Mark Janowiecki (2015-2020) – Entomologist with the City of New Orleans, Mosquito, Termite, and Rodent Control Board

Elida Espinoza (2012-2018) – Entomologist at Enviroflight

Joanie King (2017-2022) – Assistant Professor and Extension Entomologist at New Mexico State University 

Pierre-André Eyer (2017-2022) 

 

Staff

Megan Moran (2020-2022) – PhD student at James Cook University

Steven Richardson (2019-2020) – MS student at Louisiana State University

Madeleine Chura (2019-2020)

Dylan Sjølie (2018-2019) – MS student at the University of Saskatchewan

Laura Johnson (2016-2018) – Research Scientist at the University of Wyoming

Darshan Chetty — Research Associate

Lisa Jordan (2017- 2022) – Retired 

Sarah Turner — Research Assistant

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