About

Position

• 2024-present, Research Curator of Coleoptera and Odonata, FL Dept. of Ag. and Consumer Services and FL State Collection of Arthropods

Education

• Ph.D. Organismic & Evolutionary Biology, 2019, Harvard University

• B.S. Human Biology Health & Society, Entomology, 2009, Cornell University

Publications

Karpiński, L. Gorring, P. and Cognato, A.I. 2025. First Support for Phylogenetically Segregated Ecotypes and Delineating Thresholds for Inter- ­ and Intraspecific Ranks in Phytophagous Central Asian Beetles (Coleoptera). Zoologica Scripta 54: 144-162. doi:10.1111/zsc.12702

Gorring, P. & Farrell, B. 2023. Evaluating species boundaries using coalescent delimitation in pine-killing Monochamus (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) sawyer beetles. Molec. Phylogenetics & Evolution 184: 10777. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2023.107777

Gorring, P. & A. Cognato. 2023. The case for a nuclear barcode: using the CAD CPS region for species and genus level discrimination in beetles. Diversity 15(7), 847. https://doi.org/10.3390/d15070847

Karpiński, L. Gorring, P. Cognato, A.I. 2023. DNA vs. Morphology in Delineating Species Boundaries of Endemic Mongolian Eodorcadion Taxa (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae). Diversity 15(5), 662. https://doi.org/10.3390/d15050662

Karpiński, L. Gorring, P. Hilszczański, J. Szczepański, W.T. Plewa, R. Łoś, K. & Cognato, A.I. 2022. Integrative taxonomy tests possible hybridisation between Central Asian cerambycids (Coleoptera). Zoologica Scripta, 52(1), 70–85. DOI: 10.1111/zsc.12570

Karpinski, L. Gorring, P. Kruszelnicki, L., Kasatkin, D., & Szczepanski, W. 2021. A fine line between species and ecotype: a case study of Anoplistes halodendri and A. kozlovi occurring sympatrically in Mongolia (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae). Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny 79: 1-23. https://doi.org/10.3897/asp.79.e61499

Gorring, P. 2019. Gene to Genus: Systematics and Population Dynamics in Lamiini Beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) with Focus on Monochamus Dejean. PhD

Dissertation. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:42029751

Other peer-reviewed scholarly products

Gorring, P., S.M. Smith, A.I. Cognato, and A.J. Redford. 2024. CerambycID: a tool for identification of invasive and conifer-feeding genera. USDA APHIS Identification Technology Program (ITP), Fort Collins, CO and Michigan State University. CerambycID site 

Presentations

Gorring, P.S. 2025. Florida Entomological Society, symposium talk: Long antennae, short sequences: Using museum DNA to advance cerambycid beetle systematics. Lake Alfred, FL.

Gorring, P.S. 2024. Entomological Society of America, paper presentation: Phylogenetics using historical DNA from dried specimens: Possibilities and limitations in large (Cerambycidae) and small (Scolytinae) beetles. ESA National Meeting, Phoenix, AZ

Gorring, P.S. 2023. Entomological Society of America, paper presentation: Molecular delimitation in diverse groups: Optimizing data and analysis. ESA National Meeting, National Harbor, MD

Gorring, P.S. 2022. Entomological Society of America, paper presentation: The successful use of multigene enrichment museomics to broaden longhorned beetle (Cerambycidae) systematics. ESA National Meeting, Vancouver, BC

Gorring, P. 2020. Invited seminar. Michigan State University Department of Entomology. Gene to Genus: the use of population and phylogenetic methods to address diversity in longhorned beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae).

Gorring, P. & Kanda, K. 2019 Symposium Organizer, Entomological Collections Network: Specimen Preservation in the 21st century: Getting the most data from collecting efforts.

Gorring, P.S. 2019. Entomological Society of America:  Island hopping? Population dynamics of Monochamus clamator in the Great Basin sky islands. ESA National Meeting, St. Louis, MO

Gorring, P.S. 2018. Entomological Society of America:  Dealing with diversity: Systematics lessons provided by Monochamus and relatives. ESA National Meeting, Vancouver, BC

Gorring, P.S. 2016. International Congress of Entomology. Systematics and host use in the Lamiini and Monochamus beetles. ICE meeting, Orlando, FL.

Gorring, P.S. 2014. Entomological Society of America student paper competition oral presentation: The case for Monochamus: Preliminary evidence. ESA National Meeting, Portland, OR.

Gorring, P.S. 2014. Harvard G4 Symposium. Sky island living: What inspired pine sawyer beetle diversification? American Academy for the Advancement of Science, Cambridge, MA.

Gorring, P.S. 2013. Entomological Society of America student paper competition oral presentation: You thought these beetles were just boring: Systematics of the sawyers (Cerambycidae: Monochamus) ESA National Meeting, Austin, TX.

Gorring, P.S. 2013. Cambridge Entomological Club presentation: The life and times of local Insects. Cambridge, MA.

Gorring, P.S. 2011. Entomological Society of America poster presentation: Where do conifer insects come from? ESA National Meeting, Reno, NV.

Grants and awards

• NSF DBI Standard Grant, co-PI. PI Jen Zaspel. Towards a sustainable management of insect collections in the U.S. through the Entomological Collections Workshop. $99,000 (2021-2024)

• USDA Farmbill. PI Anthony Cognato. Writer on grant. Morphological and molecular diagnostic tools for larval and adult softwood longhorned beetles. Michigan State University ~$400,000 (2018-2022)

• Harvard Milton Fund, co-PI. PI Brian Farrell. Evolution of plant-beetle interactions and next generation sequencing. $40,000 (2014-15)

• Goelet Research Award, PI, Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology $2500 (2015)

• Barbour collections improvement fund grant, PI, Harvard MCZ $6840 (2015)

• Graduate Student Council Conference travel grant $750 (2014)

• David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies travel grants $1650 (2011,13,17)

• Putnam Expedition Grant, PI, Museum of Comparative Zoology $4,120 (2013)

• Huron Mountain Wildlife Foundation Research Grant, multiple projects as PI, $15,000 (2012-2020)

• Cornell Meinig National Scholar Grant, for Taxonomy Internship $4000 (2008)

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