Profiles in "Insects" Expertise Area
- Fisher investigates environmental stressors affecting insect pollinator health. He is particularly interested in the role of agricultural pesticides and climate change in ongoing pollinator decline.
- Paaijmans is a disease ecologist with a strong interest in how the biology and ecology of parasites, viruses and insect vectors shape the distribution and intensity of infectious diseases
- McCutcheon studies endosymbioses, or relationships where one cell lives inside the other. He and his group focus on bacterial infections that benefit—rather than harm—their hosts.
- Nsa Dada is a vector biologist and microbial ecologist interested in how mosquito-microbe interactions shape mosquito biology and evolutionary responses to changes in their habitats.