Dr. Kimsey's research interests include: Public health entomology; arthropods of medical importance; zoonotic disease; biology and ecology of tick-borne pathogens; tick feeding behavior and biochemistry.

Dr. Lawler's research interests include: Aquatic ecology especially mosquitoes, other aquatic insects and amphibians; experimental studies of food webs and population dynamics, ecosystem subsidy.

Research in my laboratory focuses on evolutionary questions such as phylogenetics, biodiversity, morphological change, and certain aspects of disease ecology. Most of my research questions focus on nematodes, including both parasites and freeliving species. Current projects include characterizing the biodiversity of soil nematodes using metagenetics, and using multilocus methods to investigate the species-level systematics of parasitic roundworms of mammals.

Dr. Peng's research interests include: Honey bee nutrition, digestion, reproductive physiology with emphasis on gamete biology, and honey bee parasites and diseases.

Dr. Rosenheim's research interests include: Insect ecology, with a focus on host-parasitoid, predator-prey, and plant-insect interactions interactions, with direct applications to biological control.

Dr. Scott's research interests include: The ecology, epidemiology, and prevention of vector-borne disease.

Dr. Summers' research interests include: Economic entomology and pest management: biology and ecology of insects attacking field and vegetable crops; pest management of field and vegetable crop insects and the interaction of multiple pest complexes; development of economic injury levels and economic thresholds; insect/plant-virus relationships with emphasis on aphid-bourne viruses.

As a faculty member in the Department of Entomology and Nematology, my area of research responsibility encompasses insect/virus/plant interactions and development of management strategies for insect-transmitted plant pathogens. I have worked with many insect vector species (thrips, aphids, whiteflies, leafhoppers, mealybugs) and the plant pathogens they transmit, including viruses, phytoplasma and bacteria. During the past 30 years I have delved deeply into world of thrips and the orthotospoviruses they transmit. My work ranged from the organismal to the molecular and I have had the opportunity to move across disciplinary borders, working with entomologists, virologists, plant physiologists and plant breeders. Currently, I am exploring the interaction between the western flower thrips and the plant virus, Tomato spotted wilt orthotospovirus (TSWV), including characterizing and pursuing functional analysis of their salivary gland proteins. In the past decade, I led an AFRI NIFA Coordinated Agricultural Project addressing development of innovative strategies for management of thrips vectors and orthotospoviruses, served as a co-PI on an NSF grant aimed at revealing the early events in Sw-5 mediated resistance to TSWV in tomato, and led a NIFA grant exploring the transcriptome and proteome of the western flower thrips salivary gland.