 Dr.
Linda Hooper-Bùi
Assistant
Professor
Home State: California
Education:
B.A., 1991 California State University Long Beach
M.S., 1995 University of California, Riverside
Ph.D., 1998 University of California, Riverside
Responsibility: Runs day to day lab
operations
Oversees research associates
Manages all projects and experiments |
 Jessica
Rosson
Research Associate
Home State: Louisiana
Education: B.S. 2000 LSU
Graduate Student Presently
Responsibility:
Helps run day to day lab operations
Coordinates student workers
Conducts field experiments and lab bioassays
|
 Michael
Seymour
Research Associate
Home State: Louisiana
Education: B.S. 2001 LSU
Graduate Student Presently
Responsibility:
GIS mapping lab project sites |
 Shawn
T. Dash
Graduate Student
Home State: Maryland
Education: B.S. 2002 University of
Delaware
Responsibility: Ant taxonomist
Project Title: Species Diversity and Biogeography of Ants in
Louisiana
(Hymenoptera: Formicidae)
|
 Keri
Landry
Research Associate
Home State: Louisiana
Education: B.S. 2001 LSU
M.S. 2004 LSU
Responsibility: Conducts field
experiments
|
 Katie
O'Brien
Graduate Student
Home State: Louisiana
Education: B.S. 2003 LSU
Responsibility: Bait trials, conducts
field
experiments specific to her thesis |
 Stacy
Clayton
Web Specialist
Home State: Louisiana
Education: B.A. 2000 LSU
Responsibility: RIFA website, Entomology department
site and other graphic design related work |
 Albert
Lee
Graduate Student
Home State: California
Education: B.S.
2000, University of California , Riverside
M.S. 2002, University of
California , Riverside
Responsibility: Conducts
experiments specific to dissertation.
Project Title: Identification
of gut and fat body microbial diversity in worker ants and identification of
their importance in nutrient cycles
|
 Zhisheng
Jiang, PhD
Postdoctoral
Researcher
Home Country: People's
Republic of China
Education:
• B.S.
in Biology, Central China Normal University, China, 1987
• M.S.
in Environmental Biology, minor in Environmental
Toxicology, Nankai University, China, 1994
• Ph.D.
in Entomology, minor in Insecticide Toxicology, Nankai
University, China, 1997
|
 Li
Zou
Postdoctoral
Researcher
Home Country: People's
Republic of China
Education:
Ph.D.
Entomology, May 2004,Louisiana State University
, Baton Rouge
M.S. Zoology.1998. Kunming Institute
of Zoology, The Chinese Academy of Sciences
|
 Lee
Womack
Research Associate
Home State: Louisiana
Education: B.S. 2004 LSU
Responsibility: Assessing
the effect of fire ant suppression on small mammals, reptiles, amphibians, insects
and other ant species within two pine dominated ecosystems.
|
 Caren
Carney
Research Associate
Home State: Louisiana
Education: B.S. 2001 LSU
Presently Vet Student at LSU
Responsibility:Conducts
field experiments
Conducting experiments with pesticides and HPLC |
 Kristin
Prejean
Undergraduate Researcher
Home State: Louisiana
Project: My
project stems from our laboratory’s research dealing with the fate of pesticides
Bifenthrin and Deltamethrin from the substrates pea gravel, pine straw, and topsoil.
In this research it was found that the pyrethroids Bifenthrin and Deltamethrin
show a decrease in efficacy and concentration over time when applied to these
substrates. The original hypothesis was that the pesticide was degrading over
time, but it has been more recently suggested that this decrease is actually
a result of pesticide runoff. From there we decided to test the new hypothesis.
The project design is, a measured amount of substrate will be put into a cup
with holes at the bottom, and then an airbrush will be used to treat it with
a known amount of Bifenthrin and Deltamethrin, runoff from the treatment will
be taken as a sample. The cup will then be placed in a funnel and it will be
watered to simulate a half-inch of rainfall. A flask will catch the water that
runs through the substrate. Acetone will be added to the sample to extract the
pesticide. This will be repeated at time 0 hours, 24 hours, 48 hours, 96 hours,
one week, three weeks, and six weeks. All samples and what remains of the substrate
will be frozen for analysis using High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC). |
