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Current Staff

• Jeffrey Fidgen , Research Associate

• Warren Mays, Lab Specialist Senior (part-time). Here is an old picture of Warren

• Tom McAvoy, Lab Specialist Senior (part-time)

• Hida Benero, Lab Technician

• Mary Cornwell, Lab Technician

Current Students

• Brian Eisenback, M.S. Student (2003 - present) (email: beisenba@vt.edu). Co-advised by Dr. L.T. Kok.

• Robbie Flowers, Ph.D. Student (2002 - present) (email: roflower@vt.edu). Co-advised by Dr. L.T. Kok.

• Holly Gatton, M.S. Student (2002 - present) (email: hgatton@vt.edu). Co-advised by Dr. L.T. Kok.

• Ashley Lamb, Ph.D. Student (2000 - present) (email: aslamb@vt.edu). Co-advised by Dr. L.T. Kok.

  2002 ESA Eastern Branch Asa Fitch Award Winner

• Grace Lim , Ph.D. Student (2004 - present) (email: gracelim@vt.edu). Co-advised by Dr. L.T. Kok.

• David Mausel, Ph.D. Student (2003 - present) (email:dmausel@vt.edu). Co-advised by Dr. L.T. Kok.

• Meredith Worthen, Ph.D. Student (2003 - present) (email:mworthen@vt.edu). Co-advised by Dr. C. Brewster.

• Shicai Yan, Ph.D. Student (2005 - present) (email:yans8@vt.edu). Co-advised by Dr. L.T. Kok.

Past Students

• Don M. Grosman, Ph.D. (1996). Dissertation Title: Southern pine beetle, Dendroctonus frontalis Zimmermann (Coleoptera: Scolytidae): quantitative analysis of chiral semiochemicals. (Co-advised by F. William Ravlin)

Current Position: Entomologist III for the Texas Forest Service, Lufkin, TX (email: d.grosman@tfs.tamu.edu)

• Christopher J. Fettig, M.S. (1996). Thesis Title: Development and evaluation of trapping studies for Hylobius pales (Herbst) and Pissodes nemorensis Germar (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) in Virginia Christmas tree plantations.

Current Position: Research Entomologist, Chemical Ecology and Management of Forest Insects Pacific Southwest Research Station U.S. Forest Service, Davis, CA. (email: cfettig@davis)

• Gabriella Zilahi-Balogh, Ph.D. (2001). Dissertation Title: Biology of Laricobius nigrinus (Coleoptera: Derodontidae) and its potential as a biological control agent of the hemlock woolly adelgid, Adelges tsugae (Homoptera: Adelgidae) in the eastern United States. (Co-advised by Dr. L.T. Kok).

  2002 ESA Eastern Branch Comstock Award Winner

Current Position: Postdoctoral Scientist with Greenhouse & Processing Crops Research Centre, Ag. Canada. Harrow, ON. (email:zilahibaloghg@agr.gc.ca)

• Corey Broeckling, M.S. (2002). Thesis Title: The role olfaction plays in host finding of two specialist predators of hemlock woolly adelgid.

  Current Position: Ph.D. Student. Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Colorado State University. Fort Collins, CO (email: cbroeckl@lamar.colostate.edu)