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Brenda Oppert

Summary

EDUCATION
University of Texas at El Paso (9/75-8/78), B.S. in Biology, 1978
University of Texas at El Paso (1/83-12/86), M.S. in Biology, 1986
Kansas State University (8/86-5/91), Ph.D. in Biochemistry, 1991

PROFESSIONAL
• Research Molecular Biologist (GS-15), CGAHR, Manhattan, KS (4/91-present)
• Adjunct Professor, Department of Entomology, Kansas State University (1/99-present)

Agricultural Science Biochemistry Bioinformatics Entomology Genomics Molecular Biology

Work details

Research Molecular Biologist

United States Department of Agriculture, Center for Grain & Animal Health Research

Kansas State University, Department of Entomology

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January 18, 2016

Expression patterns of cysteine peptidase genes across the Tribolium castaneum life cycle provide clues to biological function

5 citations

336 downloads

1,899 views

Lindsey Perkin, Elena N. Elpidina, Brenda Oppert

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1581 PubMed 26819843

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October 31, 2017

Water absorption through salivary gland type I acini in the blacklegged tick, Ixodes scapularis

2 citations

166 downloads

871 views

Donghun Kim, Paulina Maldonado-Ruiz, Ludek Zurek, Yoonseong Park

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3984 PubMed 29104829

October 24, 2017

Glycaspis brimblecombei (Hemiptera: Psyllidae) attack patterns on different Eucalyptus genotypes

196 downloads

727 views

Juliana Tuller, Karla Nunes Oliveira, Jhonathan Oliveira Silva, Maurício Lopes de Faria, Mario Marcos do Espírito-Santo, José Eduardo Serrão, José Cola Zanuncio

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3864 PubMed 29085744

June 13, 2017

Seasonal shifts in accumulation of glycerol biosynthetic gene transcripts in mountain pine beetle, Dendroctonus ponderosae Hopkins (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), larvae

1 citation

164 downloads

916 views

Jordie D. Fraser, Tiffany R. Bonnett, Christopher I. Keeling, Dezene P.W. Huber

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3284 PubMed 28626604

April 18, 2017

Automated identification of insect vectors of Chagas disease in Brazil and Mexico: the Virtual Vector Lab

3 citations

346 downloads

1,451 views

Rodrigo Gurgel-Gonçalves, Ed Komp, Lindsay P. Campbell, Ali Khalighifar, Jarrett Mellenbruch, Vagner José Mendonça, Hannah L. Owens, Keynes de la Cruz Felix, A Townsend Peterson, Janine M. Ramsey

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3040 PubMed 28439451

March 9, 2017

Frequent discordance between morphology and mitochondrial DNA in a species group of European water beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae)

1 citation

146 downloads

736 views

David T. Bilton, Lucy Turner, Garth N. Foster

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3076 PubMed 28289570

January 17, 2017

Cry1Ac and Vip3Aa proteins from Bacillus thuringiensis targeting Cry toxin resistance in Diatraea flavipennella and Elasmopalpus lignosellus from sugarcane

3 citations

354 downloads

1,377 views

Ana Rita Nunes Lemes, Camila Soares Figueiredo, Isis Sebastião, Liliane Marques da Silva, Rebeka da Costa Alves, Herbert Álvaro Abreu de Siqueira, Manoel Victor Franco Lemos, Odair Aparecido Fernandes, Janete Apparecida Desidério

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2866 PubMed 28123906

September 21, 2016

Evaluation of the effectiveness of insecticide trunk injections for control of Latoia lepida (Cramer) in the sweet olive tree Osmanthus fragrans

249 downloads

1,100 views

Jun Huang, Juan Zhang, Yan Li, Jun Li, Xiao-Hua Shi

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2480 PubMed 27688974

August 9, 2016

An optimized approach to germ-free rearing in the jewel wasp Nasonia

2 citations

175 downloads

1,063 views