The Stireman lab - Faculty, staff, students


Principal Investigator
Dr. John O. Stireman III - john.stireman at wright.edu

Research Interests/Projects: Evolutionary Ecology of insects, Tachinidae, Adaptive radiation, parasitoids, Ecological speciation, Caterpillars, ecological specialization, Cecidomyiidae (gall midges), insect systematics and phylogenetics, insect diversity, trophic cascades, biogeography, behavioral ecology.

Technicians
Hilary Devlin, M.Phil. - Research Support Technician

hilary.devlin at wright.edu

Research Interests/Projects: Adaptive radiation in Asteromyia gall midges, effects of forest fragmentation on Lepidoptera and parasitoid diversity, mtDNA barcoding of Tachinidae.

Graduate Students
Jeremy Heath - Environmental Sciences PhD program

heath.22 at wright.edu

Research Interests/Projects: Insect Ecology and Behavior, Adaptive radiation in Asteromyia gall midges

Jeremy Heath's personal web page

Seth Jenkins - MS Biology

Research Interests/Projects: Parasitoid diversity, speciation, and behavior. Tritrophic interactions and the role of parasitoids in the diversification of phytophagous insects. Chalcidoidea.

Diego Inclan Luna - MS Biology

inclanluna.2 at wright.edu

Research Interests/Projects: Systematics and Diversity of Tachinid flies. Sustainable agriculture. Biological control.

Brenda Wells - MS Biology

wells.45 at wright.edu

Research Interests/Projects: The ecology of adaptive radiation in Asteromyia gall midges

Brenda Wells
Fomer Students and staff
Annie Doyle - MS Biology

slonaker.2 at wright.edu

Thesis: EFFECTS OF FOREST FRAGMENTATION AND HONEYSUCKLE INVASION ON FOREST LEPIDOPTERA IN SOUTHWEST OHIO. Completed Fall 2008.

Annie Slonaker
Patrick McAfee - Environmental Sciences, Undergraduate

Research Interests/Projects: Tachinids of Ecuador, Caterpillars of Ohio and their parasitoids

Anne Royer - (Former) Transient Graduate Research Assistant

Now a PhD student at Michigan State University