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

Annie Doyle (fomerly Slonaker) - MS Biology

slonaker.2 at wright.edu

Research Interests/Projects: Effects of forest fragmentation and invasive plant species on Lepidoptera diversity

Annie Slonaker
Brenda Wells - MS Biology

wells.45 at wright.edu

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

Brenda Wells
Undergraduate Students
Patrick McAfee - Environmental Sciences

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

Seth Jenkins - Biology

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

Fomer Students and staff
Anne Royer - (Former) Transient Graduate Research Assistant

Now a PhD student at Michigan State University