People

Faculty

Name	Title	Specialization	Phone	Email
Michael Stout	Professor, Department Head	Host-Plant Resistance, Forage Crops, IPM	225-578-1837	[email protected]
Aaron Ashbrook	Assistant Professor	Arthropod Pests of Urban; Peri-Urban Entomology	269-369-8436	[email protected]
Stephen Baca	Assistant Professor & Director of the LA State Arthropod Museum	Systematics of water beetles	225-578-0425	[email protected]
Christopher E. Carlton	Emeritus Professor	Diagnostic Services, Curatorial Support	225-578-0425	[email protected]
Jeffrey Davis	Austin C. Thompson Distinguished Endowed Professor in Entomology	Soybean IPM	225-572258-5618	[email protected]
Rodrigo Diaz	Associate Professor	Invasive Species Ecology	225-578-1835	[email protected]
Honglin Feng	Assistant Professor	Insect Physiology & Symbiosis	225-578-1832	[email protected]
Lane Foil	Pennington Chair for Wildlife Epidemiology	Veterinary Insects	225-578-1825	[email protected]
Abner M. Hammond, Jr.	Emeritus Professor	Chemical Ecology	225-578-1828	[email protected]
Kristen Healy	Associate Professor	Medical Entomology; Public Health Entomology	225-578-7836	[email protected]
Gregg Henderson	Emeritus Professor	Urban Entomology/Formosan Subterranean Termite	225-578-1831	[email protected]
Fangneng Huang	L.D. Newsom Professor of IPM	Grain Crop Pest Management	225-578-0111	[email protected]
Claudia Husseneder	Paul K. Adams Professor of Urban Entomology	Population Genetics; Molecular Biology of Insects and Symbionts	225-578-1819	[email protected]
Seth J. Johnson	Emeritus Professor	Biological Control and Moth Migration	225-578-1826	[email protected]
Todd Johnson	Assistant Professor	Forest Entomology	N/A	[email protected]
Billy R. Leonard	Emeritus Professor	Pest Management	225-578-1634	[email protected]
James Ottea	John Benjamin Holton Alumni Professor	Insecticide Toxicology	225-578-1841	[email protected]
Gadi Reddy	WAE - Gratis	Chemical Ecology and Pest Management	225-578-1634	[email protected]
Timothy D. Schowalter	Emeritus Professor	Forest and Insect Ecology; Bark Beetles	225-578-1827	[email protected]
Qian "Karen" Sun	Associate Professor	Urban Entomology	225-578-1831	[email protected]
James Villegas	Assistant Professor	Field Crops IPM	225-578-1634	[email protected]
Blake Wilson	Associate Professor	Sugarcane and Rice Entomology	985-373-6193	[email protected]

Research Associates & Post Docs

Name	Title	Specialization	PI	Email
Victoria Bayless	Research Associate	Curator, LA State Arthropod Museum	Stephen Baca	[email protected]
Dinesh Erram	Post Doc	Ecology, Surveillance, and Control of Arthropods/Vector-Borne Diseases Affecting Human and Animal Health	Lane Foil	[email protected]
Christine Gambino	Extension Associate	Plant Insect Interactions	Michael Stout & Blake Wilson	[email protected]
Elise Grossman	Research Associate	Forest Entomology	Todd Johnson	[email protected]
Logan Herbert	Research Associate	Biological Control	Rodrigo Diaz	[email protected]
Forest Huval	Research Associate	Effects of Invasive Ants on Louisiana Sugarcane	Michael Stout	[email protected]
Tao Jin	Research Associate	Molecular Biology of Insects & their Symbionts	Claudia Husseneder	[email protected]
Flaminia Mariani	Post Doc	Biological control of aquatic invasive plants	Rodrigo Diaz	[email protected]
Mark Murray	Research Associate	IPM of Soybean and Sweet Potato	Jeff Davis	[email protected]
Tyler Ray T. Musgrove	Research Associate	Soybean IPM	Blake Wilson	[email protected]
Sara Navarro	Research Associate	Sweet Potato IPM	Jeff Davis	[email protected]
Berenice Romero	Post Doc	Sweet Potato IPM	Jeff Davis
Dane D. Shackelford	Research Associate	Giant Salvinia	Rodrigo Diaz	[email protected]
Tiago Silva	Research Associate	Soybean IPM	Fangneng Huang	[email protected]
Josh Snook	Research Associate	Invasive Insect Management for Coastal Restoration	Rodrigo Diaz	[email protected]
Carlos Wiggins	Research Associate	Biological Control	Blake Wilson	[email protected]