People

• Ph.D., The University of Birmingham

• BSc., The University of Birmingham

Research in the lab focuses on the population genetics and evolution of herbivorous insects. We mostly study species that are pests of agriculture. Key areas of interest include:

• Adaptation by insect pests to the technologies intended to control them, including genetically-modified crops and pesticides.

• The interactions of specialist and generalist herbivores to plant defenses.

• Dispersal and movement of insects and the genes they carry.

We use a mixture of traditional population genetic methods, genomics, transcriptomics, bioinformatics and computer simulations in our research.