Membership

Welcome to the H. O. Lund Entomology Club membership page.  We are a service-oriented, student-governed club that is a part of the UGA Department of Entomology.  Our club is open to anyone who is interested in insects and other arthropods.  Although membership is largely made up of graduate students, we welcome all undergraduates, faculty, and staff to be involved.

H.O. Lund Club Executive Council (2006-2007)

President: Jaime Fuest

Vice President of Outreach & Extension: Marianne Robinette

Vice President of Insect Curation: Aubree Roche

Secretary: Gina Angelella

Treasurer: Chris Scocco

Social Chair: Paul Smith

Publicity Chair/Webmaster: Chris Scocco

Ag Hill/GPSC Representative: Eric Bright

Ag Hill/CAES-GSA Representative: Andrea Pruijssers

Faculty Advisor: Joseph McHugh, Ph.D.

Graduate Students

(Click on a name to see personal webpages, if applicable)

Gina Angelella (gangelel@uga.edu)

M.S. – Riley – The Effects of Pollen on Thrip Behavior in Georgia

Ryan Aylsworth (rjgator@gmail.com)

M.S. – Forschler –

Krishnareddy Bayyareddy (kreddy@uga.edu)

Ph.D. –

Eric Bright (brighte@uga.edu)

M.S. – Batzer – Community Structure of Invertebrates in Floodplains

Ryan Brown (ruthless@uga.edu)

M.S. – Champagne –

Julio Castillo (juliocastillo25@gmail.com)

Ph.D. – Strand – Antiviral Mechanisms in Anopheles gambiae (Diptura: Culicidae)

Yigen Chen (yigenchen@hotmail.com)

Ph.D. –

Anitha Chitturi (anithac@uga.edu)

Ph.D. – Riley – Thrip Vector Species in the Country of India

Juanita Forrester (jforrester@bugs.ent.uga.edu)

Ph.D. – McHugh – Phylogenic Analysis and Reclassification of the Tribe Novinii (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) Based On Morphological and Molecular Studies

Jaime Fuest (jfuest@uga.edu)

Ph.D. – Horton – Topic Chemical Management and Ecology of the Peach Borer (S. exitiosa and S. pictipes) on Peach Trees

Jose Adriano Giorgi (giorgi@uga.edu)

Ph.D. – McHugh – Phylogenetics and Taxonomy of Coccinellidae (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea)

Cesar Hostallero (cvhostallero@yahoo.com)

MPPPM – All (Non-Thesis Track)

Grant Howell (tito98@uga.edu)

M.S. – Noblet –

Lohitash Karumbaiah (lohitash@uga.edu)

Ph.D. – Adang –

Nicholas Lee (nickwlee@uga.edu)

MPPPM – All (Non-Thesis Track)

Jennifer Lewis (jlewis@bugs.ent.uga.edu)

Ph.D. – Forschler –

Nathan Lord (nlord@uga.edu)

M.S. – McHugh – Revision of the Genus Deretaphrus (Coleoptera: Bothrideridae) Based on Morphology

Shakunthala Nair (shaku@uga.edu)

MPPPM – All (Non-Thesis Track)

Andy Nuss (anuss@bugs.ent.uga.edu)

Ph.D. – Forschler –

Andrea Pruijssers (ardina@uga.edu)

Ph.D. – Strand – Characterization of Protein Tyrosine Phosphotases from Microplitis demolitor Bracovirus

Khalidur (Reben) Rahman (reben@uga.edu)

Ph.D. – All –

James Robertson (jrobertson@bugs.ent.uga.edu)

Ph.D. – McHugh – Higher Level Phylogenetics of the Diverse Lineages of the Beetle Superfamily Cucujoidea

Marianne Robinette (entomolo@uga.edu)

Ph.D. – Noblet – Entomology Outreach and Extension Education

Aubree Roche (aroche@uga.edu)

M.S. – Hinkle – Reservoir Competence of Darkling Beetles (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Alphitobius diapernius) for Innoculated Salmonella

Angela Romito (aromito@uga.edu)

M.S. – Wallace –

David Rouse (dave1980@uga.edu)

M.S. – Noblet –

Michelle Samuel-Foo (michfoo@uga.edu)

Ph.D. – All/Boerma – SIR-QTL Linkage on Group B2 Associated with Antixenosis/Antibiosis to Lepidopteran Insects in an Elite Soybean Population

Christopher Scocco (cscocco@uga.edu)

M.S. – Suiter – Population Dynamics, Movement, and Biological Control of Pests in Urban Settings

Floyd Shockley (fshockley@bugs.ent.uga.edu)

Ph.D. – McHugh – Taxonomy and Systematics of the Beetle Family Endomychidae (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea)

Paul Smith (pfsmith@uga.edu)

Ph.D. – Noblet –

Eleanor Spicer (espicer@uga.edu)

M.S. – Delaplane – Native Pollinators and Floral Competition

Alani Taylor (ant4@bugs.ent.uga.edu)

M.S. – Batzer – Invertebrate Function Variation in Different Wetland Types

Hitoshi Tsujimoto (hittsuji@uga.edu)

Ph.D. – Champagne –

Michael Ulyshen (ulyshenmd@hotmail.com)

Ph.D. – Hanula –

Shimat Villanassery Joseph (shimat@uga.edu)

Ph.D. – Braman – Management Strategies of the Hemlock Wooly Adelgid Beetle

Jeff Whitman (jwhitman@uga.edu)

M.S. – Forschler –

Joe Williamson (jrwmojo@uga.edu)

Ph.D – Dutcher – Biological Control of Pecan Aphids

Rui Zhang (bsharont@uga.edu)

Ph.D – Adang –

Shu Zhang (zhangshu@bugs.ent.uga.edu)

Ph.D. – Strand – Characteristics of the Virus Gene Glc 1.8

For a list of faculty, please click here.

For Athens staff, please click here.

For Griffin staff, please click here.

For Tifton staff, please click here.

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