Team

The Southern Piedmont Entomology Lab 2023!

 

Arash RashedPrincipal Investigator
Insect Ecology and Pest Management

 

Shirin Parizad, PhD Candidate, barley yellow dwarf disease epidemiology; the interface between animal and crop production systems.

Email: shparizad@vt.edu

Usha Panta, PhD Candidate Cultural Practices and Soil Health; Research topics: 1) Biofumigation and non-target subterranean organisms, 2) Host-mediated effects of soil biofumigation on above-ground pests.

Email: Usha@vt.edu

 

Esther Bello, Research Associate, vector-borne plant pathogen ecology and epidemiology.

belloesther@vt.edu

 

Abderrahmane Boucherf, Visiting PhD Student. Pierce’s disease epidemiology

Abderrahmaneb@vt.edu

Niamh Devlin, Undergraduate Intern, Tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV) Ecology

nemodev1567@gmail.com

Sammy Winderman, Field research associate, Native Seed Ecology

swinderman@vt.edu

Lab Alumni

Atoosa Nikoukar, PhD, 2024

Atoosa is now a Research Associate with AgroSpheres

Eli Hoar, MS, 2024

Eli is now a Research Associate with Bayer

Hadi Farrokhzadeh

Now a Visiting Scholar at the University of Georgia