National Program Leader For:

• Insect Biotechnology Products for Pest Control and Emerging Needs in Agriculture
  
  Accession Number: 429499
  
  
• Develop Pest Management Technologies and Strategies to Control the Coffee Berry Borer
  
  Accession Number: 429589
  
  
• Development of Production and Formulation Technologies for Microbial Biopesticides in Conjunction with the Development of Attractants and Repellents for Invasive Insect Pests
  
  Accession Number: 429739
  
  
• Exotic Whitefly Pests of Vegetables and Ornamental Plants
  
  Accession Number: 429780
  
  
• IPM Methods for Insect Pests of Orchard Crops
  
  Accession Number: 429787
  
  
• Biologically-based Management of Arthropod Pests in Small Fruit and Nursery Crops
  
  Accession Number: 429790
  
  
• Managing Insects in the Corn Agro-Ecosystem
  
  Accession Number: 429881
  
  
• Urban Small Farms and Gardens Pest Management
  
  Accession Number: 429893
  
  
• Systematics of Parasitic and Herbivorous Wasps of Agricultural Importance
  
  Accession Number: 429951
  
  
• Systematics of Hemiptera and Related Groups: Plant Pests, Predators and Disease Vectors
  
  Accession Number: 429988
  
  
• Microbial and Arthropod Biological Control Agents for Management of Insect Pests of Greenhouse Crops and Trees
  
  Accession Number: 429999
  
  
• Insect, Nematode, and Plant Semiochemical Communication Systems
  
  Accession Number: 430032
  
  
• Urban Landscape Integrated Pest Management
  
  Accession Number: 430038
  
  
• Ecology and Biologically-based Management Systems for Insect Pests in Agricultural Landscapes in the Southeastern Region
  
  Accession Number: 430040
  
  
• Management and Biology of Arthropod Pests and Arthropod-borne Plant Pathogens
  
  Accession Number: 430048
  
  
• Conservation of Genetic Diversity and Improved Storage Protocols for Agricultural Pests and Beneficial Insects
  
  Accession Number: 430059
  
  
• Systematics of Flies of Importance in Agroecosystems and the Environment
  
  Accession Number: 430068
  
  
• Improved Biologically-Based Methods for Insect Pest Management of Crop Insect Pests
  
  Accession Number: 430081
  
  
• Systematics of Moths Significant to Biodiversity, Quarantine, and Control, with a Focus on Invasive Species
  
  Accession Number: 432128
  
  
• Identification of Novel Management Strategies for Key Pests and Pathogens of Grapevine with Emphasis on the Xylella Fastidiosa Pathosystem
  
  Accession Number: 432290
  
  
• Understanding Honey Bee Microbiota to Improve Bee Nutrition and Colony Health
  
  Accession Number: 433487
  
  
• Determining the Impacts of Pesticide- and Nutrition-Induced Stress on Honey Bee Colony Growth and Survival
  
  Accession Number: 433488
  
  
• Managing Honey Bees against Disease and Colony Stress
  
  Accession Number: 435185
  
  
• Genetics and Breeding in Support of Honey Bee Health
  
  Accession Number: 435748
  
  
• Cryopreservation of Bee Germplasm Research
  
  Accession Number: 428476
  
  
• Longitudinal Studies to Determine the Causes of Honey Bee Loss
  
  Accession Number: 428487
  
  
• Ecologically Based Pest Management in Western Crops Such as Cotton
  
  Accession Number: 428993
  
  
• Biological Control of Invasive Wood-Boring Insect Pests such as Emerald Ash Borer and Asian Longhorned Beetle
  
  Accession Number: 429043
  
  
• Host Specificity and Systematics of Insect Biological Control Agents
  
  Accession Number: 429050
  
  
• Classical Biological Control of Insect Pests of Crops, Emphasizing Brown Marmorated Stink Bug, Spotted Wing Drosophila and Tarnished Plant Bug
  
  Accession Number: 429051
  
  
• Beetle Taxonomy and Systematics Supporting U.S. Agriculture, Arboriculture and Biological Control
  
  Accession Number: 429166
  
  
• Plant Feeding Mite (Acari) Systematics
  
  Accession Number: 429274
  
  

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

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 -

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 -

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 -

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 -

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 -

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

REVISED GROUP CLASSIFICATION OF THE GENUS SPIROPLASMA -

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

HAGV INTERFERENCE WITH PROGRESSION OF HZSNPV DISEASE IN HELICOVERPA ZEA LARVAE -

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

SPIROPLASMA MONTANUM SP. NOV., FROM HYBOMITRA HORSE FLIES AT NORTHERN LATITUDES IN NORTH AMERICA -

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

SPIROPLASMA LAMPYRIDICOLA SP. NOV., FROM THE FIREFLY BEETLE PHOTURIS PENNSYLVANICUS -

REDUCTION OF BENZYL VIOLOGEN DISTINGUISHES MOLLICUTES GENERA -

AMENDED DATA ON ARGININE UTILIZATION BY SPIROPLASMA SPECIES -

SPIROPLASMA DIABROTICAE SP. NOV. FROM THE SOUTHERN CORN ROOTWORM BEETLE -

FIRST ISOLATION OF THE COLORADO POTATO BEETLE SPIROPLASMA FROM EUROPE: IMPROVED CULTIVATION SYSTEMS -

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

SPIROPLASMA LEPTINOTARSAE, SP. NOV., A MOLLICUTE -

SPIROPLASMA SYRPHICOLA SP. NOV. FROM SYRPHID FLIES -

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

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 -

THE FATE OF SPIROPLASMA FED TO NON-HOST INSECTS -

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 -