Current Lab Members
Faculty, Post-Docs, and Graduate Students
Joshua Benoit, PhD
BS, Biochemistry, Wittenberg University
PhD, Entomology, Ohio State University
Research focus: Insect Molecular Physiology
Elise Szuter - PhD Candidate
BS, Biology, Bowling Green State University
Research focus: Microbiome-host interactions and insect diapause with a focus on the northern house mosquito, Culex pipiens
Souvik Chakraborty - PhD Student
MS, Agricultural Entomology, Assam Agricultural University
BS, Agiculture, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Vishwavidyalaya
Research focus: Stress biology of mosquitoes
Oluwaseun Ajayi - PhD candidate
MS, Occupational and Environmental Safety and Health, The University of the West Indies
BS, Biology, Federal University of Technology, Akure
Research focus: Sleep and circadian biology of mosquitoes
Chris Holmes - PhD candidate
BS, Biochemistry, University of Mount Union
BS, Neuroscience, University of Mount Union
Research focus: Stress biology of mosquitoes
Samuel T. Bailey - Master's Student
BS, Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Cincinnati
Research focus: Stress biology of thrips
Kennan Oyen - Postdoc
PhD, Ecological Physiology, University of the Wyoming
BS, Biology, University of Alaska
Research focus: Physiology and circadian aspects of ticks
Melissa Kelley - Postdoc
PhD, Biochemistry, University of Cincinnati (2021, anticipated)
BS, Chemistry and Biology, University of Cincinnati
Research focus: RNA biology of mosquitoes
Undergraduates
Former Lab Members
Emily Jennings - PhD
BS, Neurobiology, University of Cincinnati
Research focus: Insect Physiology, Reproduction, Epigenetics, and Bioinformatics
Richard Hagan
Research focus: mosquito biology
Denielle Burnett
Research focus: mosquito biology
Luke Bernhardt
Research focus: cockroach biology
David Farrow
Research focus: tick biology
Megan Dunlevy
Research focus: tick biology
Jake Hendershot - Research Assistant
Current - Biostatician, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
LaVeta Burke
Research focus: cockroach reproduction
Andrew Rosendale, PhD - Postdoc
Current - Assistant Professor, Mount St. Joseph University
Gabriela Nine - Research Technician
Research focus: mosquito physiology