Graduate Students
Zia Williamson
Ph.D. Candidate
Research: Understanding the influence of landscape-scale factors on the diversity and abundance of pollinators in ornamental landscapes
Email: ziawilliamson@uga.edu
Rajesh Vavilapalli
Ph.D. Student
Research: Biology of redheaded flea beetle in ornamental container nurseries
Email: rv07314@uga.edu
Kavitha Patchipala
Ph.D. Student
Research: Understanding the biology and developing management strategies for vector of rose rosette disease, Phyllocoptes fructiphilus
Email: Kavitha.Patchipala@uga.edu
Navdeep Kaur
Ph.D. Student
Research: Improving integrated pest management strategies for the Thrips parvispinus in ornamental nurseries
Email: Navdeep.Kaur1@uga.edu
Anne Stalvey
MS Student
Research: Develop integrated pest and pollinator strategies in golf courses
Email: Anne.Stalvey@uga.edu
Nived K. Muraleedharan
Ph.D. Student
Research: Develop management strategies for the redheaded flea beetle in ornamental container nurseries
Email: nk73603@uga.edu
Other Scholars
Christopher B. Hardin
Research Professional
Research: Understanding the ecology of pollinators in residential landscapes
Email: Christopher.Hardin@uga.edu
Lab Alumni
Oluwatomi Daniel Ibiyemi
Ph.D. Entomology (2020-2024)
Research: Role of bee pollinators foraging centipedegrass spikelets
Ramkumar Govindaraju
Post Doctoral Research Associate
Research: Understanding the ecology of ambrosia beetles in the ornamental tree nursery
Aastha Jaiswal
Undergraduate biology student
Research: Understanding the diversity and abundance of bee communities foraging on weeds in warm-season lawns
Mahesh Ghimire
MS Student (2021-2023)
Research: Understand how turfgrass growth stages and insecticide use affect the abundance of beneficial arthropods in turfgrass
Current status: Assistant Specialist, Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of California, Modesto, CA
Robert M. Wolverton
Ph.D. Entomology (2020-2023)
Research: Developing integrated pest management strategies for Rhodesgrass mealybug in golf course
Current status: Director of Agronomy, Fall Line Golf Club, Butler, Georgia
Rehan Arshad
MS Entomology (2021-2022)
Research: Improving integrated pest management strategies for the redheaded flea beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) in ornamental nurseries
Current status: Pursuing an opportunity in India.
Zia Williamson
MS Entomology (2021-2022)
Research: Exploring the role and impact of flatheaded borers (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) and ambrosia beetles (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) in Georgia specialty tree crop systems and urban landscapes
Current status: Ph.D. Student (Joseph Lab), University of Georgia, Griffin, Georgia
Fawad Khan
Ph.D. Entomology (2018-2021)
Research: Understanding the role of predators for the management of fall armyworm (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) in turfgrass
Current status: Assistant Professor (Entomology), MNS University of Agriculture, Multan, Pakistan
Midhula Gireesh
Ph.D. Entomology (2018-2021)
Research: Developing integrated pest management strategies for hunting billbug (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) in sod farms
Current status: Assistant Professor and Extension Specialist, Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, University of Tennessee, Nashville, Tennessee
Alejandra Monterrosa
MS Entomology (2019-2021)
Research: Phenology and monitoring of ambrosia beetles in ornamental nurseries, tree fruit and pecan orchards in Georgia
Current status: Technical Support, USDA-ARS, Fruit and Tree Nut Research, Byron, Georgia
Ryan Lewis
MPPPM Entomology (2020-2021)
Research: Assessment of repellent and transovarial activity of insecticides on the sweet potato whitefly (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae)
Current status: Agricultural inspector, Georgia Department of Agriculture, Atlanta, Georgia
Gurjit Singh
MS Entomology (2018-2020)
Research: Improving integrated pest management strategies for the fall armyworm (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) in turfgrass
Current status: Ph.D. Student (Babu Srinivasan Lab), University of Georgia, Griffin, Georgia
Caleb Julian
Research Professional
Current status: Manager of a manufacturing company
Other Critical Lab Members
- Aaron Chapman (2023)
- Dakota Grossman (2022-2023)
- Anna Agi (2022)
- Logan Ibanez (2021-2022)
- Mathew Mitcham (2021)
- Mary Hannah Hardin (2019-2020)
- Leah Slaughter (2019)
- David Westbury (2018)
Young Scholars (Young Scholar Program)
- Maia Ottenberg (2023)
- Dalila Harris (2023)
- Chance Carter (2022)
- Emma Barr (2022)
- Drew Collin (2019)
- Samuel Cross (2018, 2019)