Author Archives: yfanslow

Congratulations to Chase Stratton, who just graduated with his Ph. D.! (pictured below with Kristian Brevik)

Funded PhD opportunities with real-world impact. The Gund Institute for Environment seeks outstanding PhD applicants interested in conducting interdisciplinary research on urgent global environmental issues. Students at the Gund get a deep understanding of complex global issues, hands-on training in … Continue reading →

Follow our lab adventures this summer on Instagram and Twitter! We are active this year in US, Mexico, and Canada. Lab Instagram: @InsectAgroEco Twitter: @Yolanda_H_Chen Jorge Ruiz-Arocho will spend the next 6 months studying if arthropod diversity differs between crops … Continue reading →

The Colorado potato beetle, Leptinotarsa decemlineata, genome paper has just been published in Scientific Reports. Sean Schoville, University of Wisconsin and I coordinated a group of 58 scientists from 33 institutions to manually annotate the genome. Although the beetle has … Continue reading →

We celebrated Finland’s 100th birthday and the holidays with the McKay lab! Leena will sadly be leaving us soon. IAEL lab members at the party (Front: Sean, Jorge, Chase, Kristian, and Leena; Back: Andrea, Yolanda, and Lance).