Faculty

Wilfrid Calvin

Assistant Specialist, Entomology
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Research: Arthropod pests (insect and mite) and crop interactions and applied arthropod ecology
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Paulina Maldonado-Ruiz

Assistant Professor
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Research: Tick-microbe interactions and the molecular determinants associated with alpha-gal syndrome
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Keith Maggert

Associate Professor, Molecular and Cellular Biology
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Research: Genetic Mechanisms

Natasha Tigreros

Assistant Professor, Entomology
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Research: Insect nutritional ecology and life history

Tristan McKnight

Assistant Professor of Practice, Entomology
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Research: Robber fly ecology and evolution
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Michele Lanan

Assistant Professor of Practice, Entomology
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Research: Evolution of diet and gut morphology, ant collective foraging
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Konrad Zinsmaier

Professor and Interim Department Head, Neuroscience
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Research: Molecular mechanisms of excitation-dependent neurotransmitter exocytosis at nerve terminals

J. Bruce Walsh

Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
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Research: Interface between genetics and evolution, especially evolution of genome structure and analysis of complex characters, biodiversity of SE Arizona Lepidoptera

Kathleen Walker

Associate Professor, Entomology
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Research: Ecology of mosquito vectors of human diseases, particularly Aedes aegypti, one of the main vectors of dengue fever around the world.