Editorial Board for section 'Insect Behavior and Pathology'

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Please note that the order in which the Editors appear on this page is alphabetical, and follows the structure of the editorial board presented on the MDPI website under information for editors: editorial board responsibilities.

Members


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Laboratory of Virology, Department of Plant Sciences, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands
Interests: insect viruses; virus-host interactions; baculovirus; virus evolution; virus taxonomy; antiviral defense; caterpillars; bees; dipteran insects
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Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health, Lyon, France
Interests: ectoparasites of mammals (inclusing dogs, cats, horses, ruminants, humans); ectoparasiticides; arthropod vectors of pathogens

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Museum and Institute of Zoology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Twarda 51/55, 00-818 Warsaw, Poland
Interests: entomopathogenic fungi; fungal enzymes; fungal metabolites; mycotoxins; insect cuticle; insect immunity; hemocytes

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Entomology and Nematology Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA
Interests: insect pathology; insect disease interactions; microbial metabolites; epizootiology; microbial control; structure-function relationships; symbiont/pathogen interactions
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Department of Entomology, University of California, Boyden 216, Riverside, CA 92521, USA
Interests: odor-mediated behavior of insects; moth communication; orientation by female mosquitoes to odors from prospective hosts

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Department of Life Sciences and Systems Biology, University of Turin, Turin, Italy
Interests: chemical ecology; vibroacoustics; myrmecophily; butterflies; ants; social insects; pollinators
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USDA, Agricultural Research Service, Bee Research Lab, Beltsville, MD 20705, USA
Interests: pollinators; honey bees; pathogenes; pathology; immunology; treatment

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Department of Microbiology, Miami University, Oxford, OH 45056, USA
Interests: insect viruses; baculovirus; ascovirus; cell blebbing; microvesicle; multivesicle body; intraluminal vesicle; T. ni midgut; double bilayer membrane virion

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Department of Biology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22901, USA
Interests: social; cooperation; neuroethology; neural circuit; Drosophila; larva; nutrition


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CENOLI, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Bruxelles, Belgium
Interests: animal societies; modeling; collective intelligence

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Biology Department, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada
Interests: plant-insect interactions; forest pests; locusts; behaviour; group living; nutrition

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Department of Biology, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA, USA
Interests: neural bases of behavior; chemoreception in insects; sensory physiology of arthropod vectors of disease

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Department of Entomology, Plant Pathology and Nematology, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID 83844, USA
Interests: climate change; pest management; pulses; plant viruses; vectors; chemical ecology; agroecology

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Institute for Bee Protection, Julius Kühn-Institut, Messeweg 11/12, 38104 Braunschweig, Germany
Interests: host-parasite interaction; social insects; honey bees; bumble bees; innate immunity; social immunity; self-medication; ecology; physiology; nutritional immunology; pathogens; microbiome; plant protection products; ecotoxicology
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Dipartimento di Agraria, Università degli Studi di Sassari, Viale Italia 39/a, I-07100 Sassari, Italy
Interests: apidology; microbial control of insect pests
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Department of Crop and Forest Sciences, University of Lleida, Lleida, Spain
Interests: insect behavior, chemical ecology and neuroethology; fruit pests

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Department of Pharmacy, University of Salerno, Via Giovanni Paolo II, 132, 84084 Fisciano, Italy
Interests: biopesticides; semiochemicals; arthropod-plant interactions; biological control
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Neuroscience Paris-Seine, Institute of Biology Paris-Seine, Sorbonne University - INSERM - CNRS, Cassan Building - B5, 9, Quai St Bernard, 75252 Paris, Cedex 05, France
Interests: insect neurobiology; insect behavior (learning, memory, perception)
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Bio-Protection Research Centre, Lincoln University, Lincoln 7647, Christchurch, New Zealand
Interests: insect pathology; biopesticide development; microbial genetics; biological control

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Earth and Life Institute, Biodiversity Section, Uclouvain, L7.07.04, Croix du Sud, 4-5b-1348, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Interests: host-parasitoid; insect behavior; population dynamic; temperature adaptation; endosymbionts; evolution and climate change
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Honey Bee Health, Centro de Investigación Apícola y Agroambiental de Marchamalo (CIAPA), Instituto Regional de Investigación Agroalimentario y Forestal (IRIAF), Junta de Comunidades de Castilla –La Mancha, 19180 Marchamalo, Spain
Interests: honey bee health; microsporidia; Nosema; viruses; Varroa; trypanosomatids; pesticide residues
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National Laboratory of Integrated Management of Pest Insects and Rodents, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Interests: ecological genomics; gene expression and regulation; behavior; adaptation; molecular evolution

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Citrus Research and Education Center, Department of Plant Pathology, University of Florida, Lake Alfred, FL 33850, USA
Interests: vector biology; plant pathogen-vector interactions; RNA interference
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Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany
Interests: social insects; communication; orientation; biotremology

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Department of Entomology, Rutgers University, Thompson Hall, 96 Lipman Dr, New Brunswick, NJ 08901-8525, USA
Interests: turfgrass entomology; entomopathogenic nematode ecology and application; microbial control

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Departments of Biological Sciences and Chemistry, Louisiana State University and A&M College, 201 Life Science Building, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA
Interests: glycobiology; insect effectors; attractants; repellents; toxicants; termites; fire ants; hematophagous insects

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Entomology Program, Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea
Interests: insect pests of fruit trees, greenhouse vegetables and rice; biological control; beetle

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Department of Entomology, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China
Interests: insecticide; resistance mechanism; molecular biology

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Research Center on Animal Cognition (CRCA), Center for Integrative Biology (CBI), CNRS, University Paul Sabatier, 31062 Toulouse, France
Interests: cognition; nutrition; social interactions; individual-based models
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Honey Bee Health, Centro de Investigación Apícola y Agroambiental de Marchamalo (CIAPA), Instituto Regional de Investigación Agroalimentario y Forestal (IRIAF), Junta de Comunidades de Castilla –La Mancha, 19180 Marchamalo, Spain
Interests: honey bee health; microsporidia; Nosema; viruses; Fungi; bee microbiota; pathogen interaction
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