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Yolanda Fanslow Chen

Professor

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Alma mater(s)
  • Ph.D. Dept. of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley, 2001
  • B.S. Natural Resource Management, Rutgers University, NJ 1995
Affiliated Department(s)

Gund Faculty Fellow

BIO

Humans have strongly influenced insect pest evolution and ecology through host shifts, crop domestication, change in cultivation practices, and human-mediated translocations. My research studies these themes to determine how we can use ecological and evolutionary information to improve sustainable pest management.

Courses

  • PSS 106 Entomology and Pest Management
  • PSS 232 Biological Control
  • PSS 296/396 Ecological Frontiers in Agroecology

Publications

Area(s) of expertise

Insect Ecology, Population Genetics, Agroecology, Evolutionary Biology, Insect-plant Interactions, Agroecology, Evolution, Epigenetics, Ecological Pest Management.

Bio

Humans have strongly influenced insect pest evolution and ecology through host shifts, crop domestication, change in cultivation practices, and human-mediated translocations. My research studies these themes to determine how we can use ecological and evolutionary information to improve sustainable pest management.

Courses

  • PSS 106 Entomology and Pest Management
  • PSS 232 Biological Control
  • PSS 296/396 Ecological Frontiers in Agroecology

Publications

Areas of Expertise

Insect Ecology, Population Genetics, Agroecology, Evolutionary Biology, Insect-plant Interactions, Agroecology, Evolution, Epigenetics, Ecological Pest Management.

Associations and Affiliations

  • Colorado Potato Beetle co-coordinator
  • Entomological Society of America
  • Society for the Study of Evolution
  • Consortium for Crop Genetic Heritage