October 2021: Zilan Li and Peng Zhang were honored at the annual South Carolina Entomological Society meeting, where Zilan was recognized for her poster (Top MS poster) and Peng was awarded with the SCES Cochran Scholarship as the top entomology student in the state!

August 2021: New paper out: Zhang & Turnbull on physiological changes induced by expression of Polydnavirus Innexin homologues in Heliothis virescens, published in Viruses: https://doi.org/10.3390/v13081621. 

August 2019: New paper out: Bilbo et al. Development, survival, and feeding behavior of Helicoverpa zea (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) relative to Bt protein concentrations in corn ear tissues. PLoS One 14(8): e0221343, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0221343

August 2019: Welcome to two new students: Daniel Howard (MS, Microbiology) will extend work from his Clemson undergraduate, investigating interactions between the baculovirus AcMNPV and its caterpillar host, and Zilan Li (MS, Entomology) will investigate caterpillar gut stem cell biology.

July 2019: New paper out, from a former student, Stephanie Rhodes: in Environmental Entomology: Nitrogen fertilization of host plant influenced the nutritional status and life history of the Madeira mealybug (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae). doi:10.1093/ee/nvz077 

Summer 2019: We're excited to host a South Carolina State student, Aliyah Masterson, thanks to support from the SC Cotton Board. We've also been fortunate to receive funds from Clemson Creative Inquiry to support work by Dani McLaughlin and Chris Moss this summer.

May 2019: We said goodbye to some undergraduates who'd been with us for a while - Alexis Corker, off to Columbia University, and Phillip Baker, off to NIH, as well as Alex Copeland. Good luck!

March 2019: Peng and Richard presented some of their more recent work at the Southeastern Branch Meeting of the Entomological Society of America in Mobile, AL

December 2018: Jessie graduated with her BS in Biological Sciences - congratulations! Best of luck next year in your new job! 

November 2018: we'll be at the ESA/ESC/ESBC meeting in Vancouver, where Peng and Richard will present their work

October 2018: Peng Zhang (PhD student) received a CU Graduate Student Government Professional Enrichment Grant to attend the ESA/ESC/ESBC meeting

August 2018: Peng Zhang's first article published, in Journal of General Virology: Virus innexin expression in insect cells disrupts cell membrane potential and pH. doi: 10.1099/jgv.0.001132 

August 2018: Peng Zhang joined the lab as a PhD student in Biological Sciences

August 2018: Richard Melton joined the lab as an MS student in Biological Sciences

August 2018: Peng Zhang graduated with his MS in Entomology!

April 2018: Richard Melton (UG, Biological Sciences), Jessie Parker (UG, Biological Sciences) and Peng Zhang (MS, Entomology) presented their work at the 2018 Molecules in the Mountain symposium at WCU

April 2018: Alexa Corker (UG, Micro), Daniel Howard (UG, Biological Sciences) and Sydney Lynch (UG, Genetics) presented their work at SC ASM meeting at Winthrop University

April 2018: Richard Melton (UG, Biological Sciences) and Daniel Howard (UG, Biological Sciences) presented their work at the SC/GA Entomological Societies meeting in Helen, GA

March 2018: Peng Zhang (MS, Entomology) presented his work at the Southeastern branch meeting of ESA in Orlando, FL