Advisory Board and Editors Entomology
Michael S. Singer
Professor of Biology and Environmental Studies at Wesleyan University. Research focus on the role of tri-trophic interactions in evolutionary, community, and food web ecology. Additional specific expertise in plant-insect interactions and Lepidoptera.
Xiaotian Tang
Dr. Xiaotian Tang is now an assistant professor (ZJU100 Young Professor) at Zhejiang University. He was a postdoctoral associate at Yale School of Medicine. His research interests include vector-borne diseases of animals and plants, and arthropod-pathogen-host interactions. He is also interested in evolutionary biology of arthropods.
He has over 40 publications in high-quality peer-reviewed journals, including Cell, PLOS Biology, eLife, Cell Reports, and Science Translational Medicine. He has served as academic or review editor for 4 journals and reviewer for over 20 journals.
Gianluca Tettamanti
- Degree in Biology (University of Milano), 1997
- PhD in Evolution and Development (University of Insubria), 2003
- Assistant Professor (Zoology), University of Insubria, 2005-2011
- Associate Professor (Zoology), University of Insubria, 2011-present
Research topics addressed:
- Cell death and regeneration in insect development
- Insect biotechnology
- Immune response in insects
- Author of 90 papers in peer-reviewed journals
- Author of 11 book chapters
Jonathan D Tonkin
My research is focused around what promotes and maintains biodiversity at a range of spatial scales. Much of my work focuses on stream ecosystems, but my interests are question focused, not system specific. While my central interest lies in disentangling the mechanisms that structure metacommunities, I also tackle questions ranging from local to global, and from community ecology through to macroecology. I focus on a variety of basic ecological concepts and processes, including linkages between disturbance, productivity and diversity, biodiversity loss, ecosystem function, dispersal, and community assembly. I also aim to tackle applied ecological issues such as global change, land-use change, river regulation, and restoration, with the goal of applying ecological theory to effectively manage threatened ecosystems. My current research ties these issues together into the following three main themes: 1) Metacommunity ecology; 2) Global change ecology and macroecology; and 3) Restoration ecology. In light of these three themes, I am particularly focusing on the unique hierarchical and dendritic structure of river networks, and how this structure influences the biodiversity patterns of river communities.
Darren F Ward
I am an entomologist whose research interests are focused on the threats of invasive insects, the diversity of parasitoid communities, and the utilisation of data from natural history collections in ecological research.
Jorge A Zavala
Dr. Jorge Zavala is an agronomist and researcher, is a Principal Investigator at CONICET and Vice Director of INBA, FAUBA-CONICET. With expertise in plant-insect interactions, his work focuses on plant chemical defenses, insect resistance mechanisms, and the molecular and biochemical responses of plants to herbivory.
Dagmara Żyła
I am a Coleoptera Curator and a Head of Coleoptera Section at the Museum of Nature Hamburg. I work on phylogenomics, systematics, and evolution of rove beetles (Staphylinidae).