Auburn scientists discover process regulating insecticide resistance in mosquitoes

by Paul Hollis | Jul 18, 2016 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Entomology & Plant Pathology

A team of Auburn University research entomologists probing the molecular processes that lead to insecticide resistance in mosquitoes has determined that a family of signaling molecules known as G-protein-coupled receptors controls the genes associated with resistance...

First Auburn/AAES–Cuba grants support research collaborations

by Jamie Creamer | May 24, 2016 | AAES Administration, Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, COA Administration, Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences, Entomology & Plant Pathology, Poultry Science

AUBURN, Ala.— Six research projects that aim to encourage and advance academic collaborations between Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station researchers at Auburn University and scientists at Cuban agricultural universities and research centers are underway, funded...

Entomology master's student awarded NSF research fellowship

by Jamie Creamer | Apr 4, 2016 | Entomology & Plant Pathology

Mayrolin García, an Auburn University master’s student studying under the direction of entomology assistant professor Nathaniel Hardy in the Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, has been awarded a prestigious 2016 National Science Foundation Graduate Research...

Auburn scientists: Widespread outbreak of Zika virus not likely in United States

by Josh Woods | Jan 29, 2016 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Entomology & Plant Pathology

by MAGGIE LAWRENCE AUBURN, Ala.—Public health officials are working to contain an outbreak of Zika virus across Central and South America. But scientists at Auburn University do not believe that the United States will face the disease in the numbers appearing in...

With a passion

by Mary Catherine Gaston | Oct 4, 2015 | Entomology & Plant Pathology

Kenya native helping others reach their potential by JAMIE CREAMER Please excuse the use of an overworked adjective, but there’s just no other way to describe Esther Ngumbi: The woman is passionate. She’s passionate about life, about giving back, about inspiring...

Human pheromones topic of Oxford scientist's Sept. 30 lecture

by Jamie Creamer | Aug 26, 2015 | AAES Administration, COA Administration, Entomology & Plant Pathology

A University of Oxford zoologist and international pheromone authority will explore the myths versus reality of pheromones in humans in a lecture Wednesday, Sept. 30, at 3:30 p.m. in Auburn University’s Rouse Hall, room 112.Sponsored by the College of Agriculture’s...

Coleman awarded NIH grant to study disease-causing fungi

by Jamie Creamer | May 6, 2015 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Entomology & Plant Pathology

Jeff Coleman, a mycologist in Auburn University’s Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, has been awarded a $268,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health to identify and study the genes within two species of fungi that can cause potentially deadly...