Editorial Board for section 'Insect Pest and Vector Management'

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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
Citrus Research and Education Center, University of Florida, Lake Alfred, FL 33850, USA
Interests: development of integrated management strategies for insect pest control (temperate tree fruit, small fruit, as well as in other agricultural commodities such as ornamental plants and vegetable)

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Dipartimento di Scienze Agrarie, Forestali e Alimentari (DISAFA), Università degli Studi di Torino, 10095 Grugliasco, Italy
Interests: alien insects of agricultural interest; insect vectors; biological control agents; symbiotic control

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Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, University of Florida, Vero Beach, FL, USA
Interests: ecological interactions; arbovirus infection in peri-domestic and invasive mosquitoes
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Center Agriculture Food Environment (C3A), University of Trento, Trento, Italy
Interests: agricultural entomology; insect chemical ecology; multitrophic interactions; semiochemicals; integrated pest management; biological control; invasive alien species
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Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849-5413, USA
Interests: structural pests; insect physiology and behavior
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Laboratory of Entomology and Agricultural Zoology, Crop Production and Rural Environment, Department of Agriculture, University of Thessaly, Phytokou Str., 38443 N. Ionia, Magnesia, Greece
Interests: pheromones and semiochemicals; insect parasitoids; population ecology; sampling and trapping; invasive biology; integrated pest management; microbial control; chemical control; non-chemical control; stored-product protection
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Department of Entomology and Nematology, University of California, Davis, CA, USA
Interests: insect disease vectors; insect reproduction; vector/parasite interactions; reproductive physiology; male seminal secretions; symbiosis; lactation; nutrition; lipid metabolism; transcriptional regulation; comparative genomics; transcriptomics; proteomics and metabolomics
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USDA Agricultural Research Service, Gainesville, FL, USA
Interests: plant-insect; plant-microbe; insect-microbe; plant-insect-microbe interactions; semiochemicals; chemical communication; chemical ecology

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Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221, USA
Interests: vector biology; insect physiology; genomics

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Department of Entomology (MS 2475), College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Texas A& M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA
Interests: biological control; parasitoid ecology and behavior; insect-plant interactions; GMO crops; agriculture and pest management in developing countries

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Department of Biological Sciences, Texas Tech University, Box 43131, Lubbock, TX 79409, USA
Interests: vector control; Wolbachia; vector-borne disease
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Lab of Comparative Immunology and Parasitology, University of Insubria, 21100 Varese, Italy
Interests: insect immunity; innate immunity; parasitology; nematodes; host-parasite interaction
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Department of Agricultural Development, Democritus University of Thrace, 68200 Orestiada, Greece
Interests: biological control; spider mites; Phytoseiidae; lacewings; integrated pest management; day-degree phenological models; diapause; insect-plant interactions; side-effects of pesticides to nontarget organisms (arthropods)
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Department of Entomology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA
Interests: social insect behavior and ecology; invasive pests; lab and field testing of pest control products; chemical control; structural pests; urban entomology

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Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Agro-Alimentari, DISTAL, Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna, Viale Fanin 42, 40127 Bologna, BO, Italy
Interests: integrated pest management; functional biodiversity; insect biodiversity conservation
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Department of Disease Control, Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London WC1E 7HT, UK
Interests: medical entomology; phlebotomine; sand flies; mosquitoes; vector borne diseases; chemical ecology; vector behavior; vector control; surveillance

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Department of AGRARIA, Mediterranean University of Reggio Calabria, 89123 Reggio Calabria, Italy
Interests: stored product pests; botanical insecticides; IPM
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Department of Agriculture, Food and Environment, University of Pisa, via del Borghetto 80, 56124 Pisa, Italy
Interests: integrated pest management (IPM); insect behavior; insect chemical ecology; pollinator insects; botanical insecticides; apidology and beekeeping products

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Warwick Crop Centre, School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick, Wellesbourne, Warwick CV35 9EF, UK
Interests: vegetables; Brassica; lettuce; integrated pest management; decision support; forecasting
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Department of Agriculture, Food and Environment, University of Pisa, Via del Borghetto 80, 56124 Pisa, Italy
Interests: insects of foodstuff of agricultural and medical interest; bioactivity of botanical oils; essential oils in particular
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Department of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Sciences, University of Perugia, Borgo XX Giugno 74, 06121 Perugia, Italy
Interests: insect behavior; chemical ecology; tri-trophic interactions; plant resistance to insects; biological control; IPM - integrated pest management; insect biotechnology

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Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-3114, USA
Interests: control of insect pests in agricultural crops; biological control and sustainable agriculture

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Laboratory of Agrozoology, Department of Plants and Crops, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Coupure Links 653, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium
Interests: agricultural entomology; biological control; integrated pest management

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Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Interests: Malaria; Anopheles gambiae; Plasmodium; Aedes aegypti; Dengue; innate immunity; microbiome; microflora; metagenomics; transcriptomics; genomics; malaria control; dengue control

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Emerging Pathogens Institute, Department of Infectious Diseases & Immunology, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA
Interests: vector biology & ecology; vector host-pathogen interactions; systems biology; malaria; arbovirus

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Department of Natural Resource Sciences, Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, McGill University, Ste. Anne de Bellevue, QC H9X 3V9, Canada
Interests: hemocytes; cell communication; signaling; insect cellular immunity

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Department of Agronomy, Food, Natural Resources, Animals and the Environment, University of Padua, Agripolis, Viale dell'Università 16, 35020 Legnaro, PD, Italy
Interests: biological and integrated pest management; side effects of pesticides; functional biodiversity
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Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
Interests: insect chemoreception (olfaction and taste); insect behavior; insect sexual communication; insect chemical ecology
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School of Biosciences and Veterinary Medicine, University of Camerino, 62032 Camerino, Italy
Interests: mosquito-symbiosis; insect-symbiosis; parthenogenesis; vector control; insect borne diseases
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