Editorial Board for section 'Insect Molecular Biology and Genomics'

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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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Section Editor-in-Chief
Department of Biological Sciences, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA
Interests: developmental evolution; genome evolution; cave adaptation; insect visual system; Coleoptera

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Centre for Biodiversity Genomics & Department of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada
Interests: molecular biology; DNA barcoding; insect genetics; RNA interference; gene sequencing

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Arthropod-borne and Infectious Diseases Lab (AIDL), Department of Microbiology, Immunology & Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523-1692, USA
Interests: mosquito RNA interference; mosquito endogenous viral elements

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1. Agricultural Research Service, USDA, Washington, DC 20250, USA
2. Department of Entomology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506, USA
Interests: host plant resistance; plant-insect interaction; insect genomics and proteomics

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The State Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Pest Insects and Rodents, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
Interests: insect-borne virus; insect-virus-host interaction; rice stripe virus; persistent virus; planthopper; mosquito; Sindbisvirus; insect molecular biology

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Biology Department, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK
Interests: evolutionary biology; population genetics; Lepidoptera; speciation; genomics; gene flow

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London Research and Development Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, London, ON N5V 4T3, Canada
Interests: insect biotechnology; RNAi pest control; insecticide resistance; baculoviruses

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Great Lakes Forestry Centre, Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, Sault Ste. Marie, ON P6A 2E5, Canada
Interests: alien invasive forest pest insects; molecular mechanisms of olfaction in insects; insect-tree interactions
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1. Department of Biological Applications and Technology, University of Ioannina, 45110 Ioannina, Greece
2. Biomedical Research Institute, Foundation for Research and Technology, 45115 Ioannina, Greece
Interests: insecticide resistance; P450s; CRISPR/Cas9 genome modification; pest management

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CSIRO Land & Water, 147 Underwood Avenue, Floreat, WA 6014, Australia
Interests: genetics; genomics; synthetic biology; plant defence against insects; genetic control of insects

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Department of Sciences, University of Basilicata, 85100 Potenza, Italy
Interests: insect immunity; molecular bases of host-parasitoid interaction; molecular bases of insect olfactive perception; bioconversion processes by Hermetia illucens; insects as source of antimicrobial peptides
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Department of Biology, The University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada
Interests: genetic engineering; pest control; plant-herbivore interactions; plant resistance; plant gene/protein expression; genomics of plant-pest interaction; arabidopsis developmental genetics; RNAi-based pest control for the spider mite

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USDA-ARS, Center for Medical, Agricultural, and Veterinary Entomology, 1700 S.W. 23rd Drive, Gainesville, FL 32608, USA
Interests: transgenic insect strains for sterile insect technique; insect transposable elements; transposon-mediated insect transformation; insect genetic modification

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Department of Biology, Institute of Applied Biosciences, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM 88003, USA
Interests: molecular biology; mosquito physiology; amino acid signaling and transport; artificial blood meal replacements; repellents; insecticides; sterile insect technique

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Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, School of Medicine, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI, USA
Interests: insect genetics; molecular taxonomy; forensic entomology and transcriptomics
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Department of Entomology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
Interests: insect molecular ecology; endosymbionts; population genetics

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Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institute for Biological Sciences Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
Interests: molecular genetics; genomics; genome editing; insect sterile technology; sex determination; virus resistance; silkworm; black soldier fly

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Department of Biological and Medical Sciences, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford OX3 0BP, UK
Interests: Cys-loop ligand-gated ion channels; insecticide targets; insecticide resistance; ion channel evolution
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Department of Biology, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada
Interests: genomics; genetics of behavoir; pollinators

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Anhydrobiosis Research Group, Molecular Biomimetics Research Unit, Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization (NARO), Tsukuba 305-0851, Japan
Interests: molecular biology; environmental adaptation; insect biochemistry

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The Pirbright Institute, Ash Road, Pirbright, Surrey GU24 0NF, UK
Interests: evolutionary biology and functional genomics of biting flies; bioinformatics; genomics; mosquito molecular biology

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Université Côte d’Azur, INRAE, CNRS, ISA, F-06903 Sophia Antipolis, France
Interests: insecticide resistance; insect functional genomic; cytochrome P450; plant-insect interaction
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IGEPP, INRAE, Institut Agro, Université de Rennes, 35653 Le Rheu, France
Interests: insect genomics and transcriptomics; genome assembly and annotation; data integration; bioinformatics

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State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology & Ministry of Agricultural and Rural Affairs Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology of Crop Pathogens and Insect Pests, Institute of Insect Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
Interests: insect genomics; insect bioinformatics; miRNA; ncRNA; development; RNAi pest control

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Department of Entomology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
Interests: DNA Sequencing; genomics; phylogenetic analysis; evolution; population genetics; biodiversity; ecology and evolution; systematics; RNA; taxonomy
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Department of Entomology, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
Interests: plant–insect interactions; insecticide and Bt resistance; P450; transposable elements; toxicology; insect molecular biology
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Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA
Interests: transgenics; CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing; selfish genes; gene drive

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Department of Life Sciences, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, 41125 Modena, Italy
Interests: genomics; cytogenetics; chromosomes; epigenetics; genome

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Department of Entomology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-2475, USA
Interests: Aedes aegypti; RNA interference (RNAi); antiviral immunity; gene editing; next generation sequencing; molecular biology; virology; alphavirus; flavivirus

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Diversité des Génomes et Interactions Microorganismes Insectes (DGIMI), Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France
Interests: lepidoptera; genome; transcriptome; epigenome; chromatin; plant-insect interactions; insect-pathogen interactions
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