Dan Herms

Interactions between insects and woody plants: ecology and management of insects in forests, urban forests, ornamental landscapes, nurseries, and Christmas tree plantations; chemical ecology; host plant resistance; impacts of invasive insects on forest communities; phenological modeling.

Signature area: Environmental Quality and Sustainability

Susan Fisher

Environmental toxicology

Luis Canas

Biological control, IPM for ornamentals and vegetables grown in controlled environments, biodemographics, plant-insect interactions, physical ambient manipulation for insect control, whitefly management.

David Denlinger

insect molecular physiology; insect diapause and cold hardiness; photoperiodism

Susan Fisher

Environmental toxicology

Mary Gardiner

The Agricultural Landscape Ecology (ALE) Lab measures how habitat management and landscape  composition and configuration influence arthropod communities and the ecosystem functions and services they support within agroecosystems and urban green spaces. 

Parwinder Grewal

Biological control; Entomopathogenic nematodes and symbiotic bacteria; host plant resistance; molluscicidal nematodes; foliar nematodes; IPM

Soil ecology; quantifcation and maximization of ecosystem services of the soil food webs in urban and agroecosystems; soil nematode communities as bioindicators of soil health

Urban ecology; quantifying and maximizing ecosytem services and human well-being in cities; ecological landscape planning and management; urban agriculture, stormwater management

Ronald Hammond

Agronomic Crops Insects Website

Extension and Research; Field Crop Insects; IPM; Slugs.

Signature areas: Food Security, Production, and Human Health; Environmental Quality and Sustainability

Dan Herms

Interactions between insects and woody plants: ecology and management of insects in forests, urban forests, ornamental landscapes, nurseries, and Christmas tree plantations; chemical ecology; host plant resistance; impacts of invasive insects on forest communities; phenological modeling.

Signature area: Environmental Quality and Sustainability

Casey Hoy

Systems analysis and quantitative ecology, agroecosystems management.

Signature areas: Environmental Quality and Sustainability; Food Security, Production, and Human Health

Reed Johnson

Apiculture, pollinator toxicology and genomics.

Susan Jones

Biology and control of termites, bed bugs, and other household and structural insect pests

Joseph Kovach

As Director of the OSU Integrated Pest Management Program, I work closely with research and extension faculty in entomology, plant pathology, and horticulture and crop science to develop and implement programs that use ecological principles to better mange pest populations. My research interests are in developing urban agricultural systems and the sustainable management of fruit pests.

Andrew Michel

The Insect Molecular Ecology and Adaptation Laboratory (IMEAL) investigates molecular interactions between insects and their environment, identifies genes that are favored during adaptation, and develop management strategies that limit pest impacts. Thus, the goal of my program is to integrate basic biological and evolutionary research to solve applied research problems.

Omprakash Mittapalli

Insect Molecular Biology, Functional Genomics, Insect-Plant Interactions

Glen Needham

Acarology; acarology summer program; tick, bee mite, dust mite, bed bug physiology, behavior and ecology

P. Larry Phelan

Chemical ecology, metabolomics, insect-plant interactions, biological farming

Peter Piermarini

My research examines the cellular and molecular mechanisms that mediate the excretory processes of blood-feeding arthropods.  I am presently attempting to elucidate the ion-transporting proteins that are responsible for the rapid production of urine by the Malpighian (renal) tubules of blood-feeding (female) mosquitoes.  This knowledge will be used to develop new chemical agents for controlling mosquitoes. 

F William Ravlin

Administrative responsibilities: Commercilization of university-based discoveries; competitive grants; private industry partnerships; interdisciplinary teams Academic expertise: decision support systems; integrated pest management; gypsy moth management

David Shetlar

Nurseries - insects/mites, Landscape/insects, Landscape/turfgrass IPM, Christmas trees/insects

Celeste Welty

Vegetable pest management, Fruit pest management

Ross MacDonald

Applications of communication and learning theory to project development, management, and evaluation. Formal and informal curriculum development. Multicultural education.

Joseph Raczkowski

Research: Evolution of social parasitism in ants including species-level phylogenetic analyses based on morphology and molecules, observations of social parasitism in the field and laboratory, and the chemical ecology of Lasius (Acanthomyops) ants. 

Teaching: ENTOMOL 333 (Social Insects), ENTOMOL 444H (Honors Social Insects), and ENTOMOL 500 (General Entomology)

Joe Boggs

Identification and management of non-native invasive pests including Asian Longhorned Beetle (ALB) and Emerald Ash Borer (EAB); basic applied entomology, plant galls, commercial landscape management, urban soils - damage recovery

Signature Area: Tree and shrub plant problem diagnostics and management

Donald Dean

Bacillus thuringiensis insecticidal proteins, mechanism of action and Protein Engineering; Aquatic macroinvertebrates of Ohio, especially Plecoptera

Woodbridge Foster

Vector Behavior; Medical Entomology

Norman Johnson

I hold joint appointments in the Departments of Entomology as well as Evolution, Ecology & Organismal Biology. I am director of the C.A. Triplehorn Insect Collection located in the Museum of Biological Diversity. Currently I am teaching two courses: Integrative Biology (module on malaria) and Biodiversity Informatics.

Hans Klompen

My research focuses on systematics of mites and ticks.  I also co-organize the annual Acarology Summer Program

Michael Klein

Rouf Mian

Christopher Ranger

Chemical ecology; plant-insect interactions; plant defenses against insects; IPM strategies for nursery and greenhouse ornamental crops.

Michael Reding

Beetle pests of nursery crops such as, oriental beetle, Japanese Beetle, European chafer, black vine weevil, ambrosia beetles

Will Reeves

John Wenzel

Clive Edwards

Soil Ecology, Soil Ecotoxicology, Earthworms, vermiculture, vermicomposting

Franklin Hall

Dave Horn

I am alive and unharmed.  More information to come.

Lowell Nault

David Nielsen

Trees, Christmas/insects, Mites, Insects/forest trees, Landscape trees/insects/control/pesticide trials

Harry Niemczyk

Turfgrass Entomology

Charles Triplehorn

Roger Williams