National Program Leader For:

• Identification of Novel Management Strategies for Key Pests and Pathogens of Grapevine with Emphasis on the Xylella Fastidiosa Pathosystem
  
  Accession Number: 432290
  
  
• Ecological Assessment and Mitigation Strategies to Reduce the Risks of Bees to Stressors in Southern Crop Ecosystems
  
  Accession Number: 436957
  
  
• Enhancing Pollinator Health and Availability Through Conservation of Genetic Diversity and Development of Novel Management Tools and Strategies
  
  Accession Number: 437657
  
  
• Using Genetics to Improve the Breeding and Health of Honey Bees
  
  Accession Number: 437823
  
  
• Longitudinal Studies to Determine the Causes of Honey Bee Loss
  
  Accession Number: 437830
  
  
• Systematics and Biology of Agriculturally Important Wasps
  
  Accession Number: 437869
  
  
• The Honey Bee Microbiome in Health and Disease
  
  Accession Number: 437900
  
  
• Managing Honey Bees Against Disease and Colony Stress
  
  Accession Number: 438129
  
  
• Appalachian Headwaters Pollinator Recovery, Education, and Research Center
  
  Accession Number: 438223
  
  
• Sustainable Pest Management for Arid-Land Agroecosystems
  
  Accession Number: 438517
  
  
• Biological Control of Invasive Wood-Boring Insect Pests such as Emerald Ash Borer and Asian Longhorned Beetle
  
  Accession Number: 438519
  
  
• Host Specificity and Systematics of Insect Biological Control Agents
  
  Accession Number: 438520
  
  
• Biological Control for Management of Invasive Pest Management, Emphasizing Brown Marmorated Stink Bug, Spotted Wing Drosophila and other Invasive Insect Pests of Crops
  
  Accession Number: 438521
  
  
• Develop Pest Management Technologies and Strategies to Control the Coffee Berry Borer
  
  Accession Number: 438614
  
  
• Quantifying and Reducing Colony Losses from Nutritional, Pathogen/Parasite, and Pesticide Stress by Improving Colony Management Practices
  
  Accession Number: 438749
  
  
• Systematics of Beetles (Coleoptera) in Support of U.S. Agriculture, Arboriculture, and Biological Control of Pests
  
  Accession Number: 438797
  
  
• Mite Systematics and Arthropod Diagnostics, with Emphasis on Adventive and Invasive Species
  
  Accession Number: 438801
  
  
• Discovery and Production of Beneficial Microbes for Control of Agricultural Pests through Integration into Sustainable Agricultural Production Systems
  
  Accession Number: 439067
  
  
• Ecologically-based Management of Arthropods in the Maize Agroecosystem
  
  Accession Number: 439192
  
  
• Improved Biologically-Based Methods for Management of Native and Invasive Crop Insect Pests
  
  Accession Number: 439207
  
  
• Exotic Whitefly and Subtropical Invasive Pests of Vegetables and Ornamental Plants
  
  Accession Number: 439251
  
  
• Chemical Communications of Plants, Insects, Microbes, and Nematodes
  
  Accession Number: 439278
  
  
• Management and Biology of Arthropod Pests and Arthropod-borne Plant Pathogens
  
  Accession Number: 439292
  
  
• Systematics of Hyper-Diverse Moth Superfamilies, with an Emphasis on Agricultural Pests, Invasive Species, Biological Control Agents, and Food Security
  
  Accession Number: 439362
  
  
• Sustainable Management of Arthropod Pests in Horticultural Crops
  
  Accession Number: 439374
  
  
• Sustainable Insect Pest Management for Urban Agriculture and Landscapes
  
  Accession Number: 439455
  
  
• Systematics of Hemiptera: Plant Pests, Predators, and Disease Vectors
  
  Accession Number: 439480
  
  
• Systematics of Plant-Feeding Flies of Importance in Agroecosystems and the Environment
  
  Accession Number: 439501
  
  
• IPM Methods for Insect Pests of Orchard Crops
  
  Accession Number: 439528
  
  

Publications (Clicking on the reprint icon will take you to the publication reprint.)

Gene content evolution in the arthropods - (Peer Reviewed Journal)

Thomas, G.C., Dohmen, E., Hughes, D.T., Murali, S.C., Poelchau, M.F., Glastad, K., Anstead, C.A., Ayoub, N.A., Batterham, P., Bellair, M., Childers, C., Duan, J.J., Gundersen, D.E., Handler, A.M., Hunter, W.B., Scully, E.D., Hackett, K.J., et all. 2020. Gene content evolution in the arthropods. Genome Biology. 21:15. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-019-1925-7.

A high-quality genome assembly from a single, field-collected Spotted Lanternfly (Lycorma delicatula) using the PacBio Sequel II System - (Peer Reviewed Journal)

Kingan, S.B., Urban, J., Lambert, C.C., Baybayan, P., Childers, A.K., Coates, B.S., Scheffler, B.E., Hackett, K.J., Korlack, J., Geib, S.M. 2019. A high-quality genome assembly from a single, field-collected Spotted Lanternfly (Lycorma delicatula) using the PacBio Sequel II System. Gigascience. 8(10):1-10. https://doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/giz122.

Arthropod genomics research in the United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service: Applications of RNA interference and CRISPR gene editing technologies in pest control ()

Gundersen, D.E., Adrianos, S.L., Allen, M.L., Becnel, J.J., Chen, Y., Choi, M.Y., Estep, A., Evans, J.D., Garczynski, S.F., Geib, S.M., Ghosh, S.B., Handler, A.M., Hasegawa, D.K., Heerman, M.C., Hull, J.J., Hunter, W.B., Kaur, N., Li, J., Li, W., Ling, K., Nayduch, D., Oppert, B.S., Perera, O.P., Perkin, L.C., Sanscrainte, N.D., Sim, S.B., Sparks, M., Temeyer, K.B., Vander Meer, R.K., Wintermantel, W.M., James, R.R., Hackett, K.J., Coates, B.S. 2017. Arthropod genomics research in the United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service: Applications of RNA interference and CRISPR gene editing technologies in pest control. Trends in Entomology. 13:109-137.

Agricultural applications of insect ecological genomics - (Peer Reviewed Journal)

Poelchau, M.F., Coates, B.S., Childers, C., Evans, J.D., Hackett, K.J., Shoemaker, D.D. 2016. Agricultural applications of insect ecological genomics. Current Opinion in Insect Science. 13:61-69. doi:10.1016/j.cois.2015.12.002.

Arthropod genomics research in the United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service: Current impacts and future prospects - (Peer Reviewed Journal)

Coates, B.S., Poelchau, M.F., Childers, C., Evans, J.D., Handler, A.M., Guerrero, F., Skoda, S.R., Hopper, K.R., Wintermantel, W.M., Ling, K., Hunter, W.B., Oppert, B.S., Perez De Leon, A.A., Hackett, K.J., Shoemaker, D.D. 2015. Arthropod genomics research in the United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service: Current impacts and future prospects. Trends in Entomology. 11(1):1-27.

The i5k Workspace@NAL – enabling genomic data access, visualization, and curation for the i5k community - (Peer Reviewed Journal)

Poelchau, M.F., Childers, C., Moore, G.G., Tsavvatapalli, V., Evans, J.D., Lee, C., Lin, H., Lin, J., Hackett, K.J. 2015. The i5k Workspace@NAL – enabling genomic data access, visualization, and curation for the i5k community . Nucleic Acids Research. 43:D714-719.

The i5K Initiative: Advancing arthropod genomics for knowledge, human health, agriculture, and the environment ()

Evans, J.D., Brown, S.J., Hackett, K.J., Richards, S., Lawson, D., Elsik, C., Coddington, J., Edwards, O., Emrich, S., Gabaldon, T., Goldsmith, M., Hanes, G.W., Misof, B., Mu-Oz-Torres, M., Niehuis, O., Papanicolaou, A., Pfrender, M., Poelchau, M., Purcell, M.F., Robertson, H.M., Ryder, O., Tagu, D., Torres, T., Zdobnov, E., Zhang, G., Zhou, X. 2013. The i5K Initiative: Advancing arthropod genomics for knowledge, human health, agriculture, and the environment. Journal of Heredity. 104(5):595-600.

Insights into social insects from the genome of the honeybee Apis mellifera - (Peer Reviewed Journal)

Gibbs, R.A., Weinstock, G.M., Evans, J.D., Maleszka, R., Robertson, H.M., Robinson, G.E., Weaver, D.B., Worley, K.C., Beye, M., Bork, P., Elsik, C.G., Hartfelder, K., Hunt, G.J., Zdobnov, E.M., Amdam, G.V., Bitondi, M.M., Collins, A.M., Cristino, A.S., Lafforff, H.G., Lobo, C.H., Moritz, R.F., Nunes, F.M., Simoes, Z.L., Wheeler, D., Hackett, K.J., Aronstein, K.A., Lopez, D.L., Decanini, L.I., Chen, Y., Sakazume, N., Sasaki, D., Tagami, M., Albert, S., Baggerman, G., Beggs, K.T., Bloch, G., Cazzamali, G., Drapeau, M.D., Eisenhardt, D., Emore, C., Ewing, M.A., Foret, S., Grimmelikhuijzen, C.U., Hauser, F., Hummon, A.B., Huybrechts, J., Jones, A.K., Kaplan, N., Kucharski, R., Leboulle, G., Linial, M., Littleton, T.J., Mercer, A.R., Richmand, T.A., Rodriguez-Zas, S.L., Rubin, E.B., Sattelle, D.B., Schlipalius, D., Schoofs, L., Sweedler, J.V., Verleyen, P., Vierstraete, E., Williams, G., Williamson, M.R., Ament, S.A., Brown, S.J., Corona, M., Dearden, P.K., Dunn, A.W., Elekonich, M.M., Fahrbach, S.E., Fujiyuki, T., Gattermeier, I., Gempe, T., Hasselmann, M., Kadowaki, T., Kage, E., Kamikouchi, A., Kubo, T., Kunieda, T., Lorenzen, M.D., Milshina, N.V., Morioka, M., Mougel, F., Ohashi, K., Overbeek, R., Page, R.E., Ross, C.A., Schioett, M., Shippy, T., Takeuchi, H., Toth, A.L., Velarde, R., Willis, J.H., Wilson, M.J., Berenbaum, M.R., Cohen, M., Gordon, K.H., Letunic, I. et al. 2006. Insights into social insects from the genome of the honeybee Apis mellifera. Nature. 443:931-949.

SPIROPLASMA POULSONII SP. NOV., A NEW SPECIES ASSOCIATED WITH MALE- LETHALITY IN DROSOPHILA WILLISTONI, A NEOTROPICAL SPECIES OF FRUIT FLY - (Peer Reviewed Journal)

ENTOMOPLASMA FREUNDTII, SP. NOV, A NEW SPECIES FROM A GREEN TIGER BEETLE (COLEOPTERA:CICINDELIDAE) - (Peer Reviewed Journal)

REVISED GROUP CLASSIFICATION OF THE GENUS SPIROPLASMA - (Peer Reviewed Journal)

IN VITRO PRODUCTION OF BACULOVIRUSES:SELECTION OF CELL LINES TO OPTIMIZE YIELDS - (Proceedings)

HAGV INTERFERENCE WITH PROGRESSION OF HZSNPV DISEASE IN HELICOVERPA ZEA LARVAE - (Abstract Only)

FIRST SPIROPLASMA ISOLATION FROM CATERPILLARS (SATIN MOTH--STILPNOTIA SALICIS) - (Abstract Only)

SPIROPLASMA MONTANUM SP. NOV., FROM HYBOMITRA HORSE FLIES AT NORTHERN LATITUDES IN NORTH AMERICA - (Peer Reviewed Journal)

FOUR NEW SPIROPLASMA SPECIES FROM TABANID (DIPTERA:TABANIDAE) FLIES - (Peer Reviewed Journal)

SPIROPLASMA LAMPYRIDICOLA SP. NOV., FROM THE FIREFLY BEETLE PHOTURIS PENNSYLVANICUS - (Peer Reviewed Journal)

REDUCTION OF BENZYL VIOLOGEN DISTINGUISHES MOLLICUTES GENERA - (Peer Reviewed Journal)

AMENDED DATA ON ARGININE UTILIZATION BY SPIROPLASMA SPECIES - (Peer Reviewed Journal)

SPIROPLASMA DIABROTICAE SP. NOV. FROM THE SOUTHERN CORN ROOTWORM BEETLE - (Peer Reviewed Journal)

FIRST ISOLATION OF THE COLORADO POTATO BEETLE SPIROPLASMA FROM EUROPE: IMPROVED CULTIVATION SYSTEMS - (Peer Reviewed Journal)

SPIROPLASMA LITORALE SP. NOV., FROM TABANID (TABANIDAE: DIPTERA) FLIES IN THE SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES - (Peer Reviewed Journal)

SPIROPLASMA LEPTINOTARSAE, SP. NOV., A MOLLICUTE - (Peer Reviewed Journal)

SPIROPLASMA SYRPHICOLA SP. NOV. FROM SYRPHID FLIES - (Peer Reviewed Journal)

SEROLOGIC (SPIROPLASMA MOTILITY INHIBITION TEST) AND MOLECULAR HOMOLOGY AMONG COLORADO POTATO BEETLE - (Peer Reviewed Journal)

SPIROPLASMAS AS BIOLOGICAL CONTROL AGENTS OF INSECT PESTS ()

SEROLOGIC AND GENOMIC RELATEDNESS OF GROUP XIV SPIROPLASMA ISOLATES FROM A LAMPYRID BEETLE AND TABANID FLIES: A TAXONOMIC AND ECOLOGICAL PARADOX - (Peer Reviewed Journal)

THE FATE OF SPIROPLASMA FED TO NON-HOST INSECTS - (Peer Reviewed Journal)

CULTIVATION OF SPIROPLASMA IN UNDEFINED AND DEFINED MEDIA ()

BIOLOGY OF THE CHRYSOMELIDAE, VOL III-V ()

IDENTIFICATION OF MOLLICUTES FROM INSECTS ()

ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY (ELISA) FOR PASTUEURIA NISHIZAWAE - (Abstract Only)