Personnel Directory

ACADEMIC STAFF 

Rob Currie, Ph.D. (Manitoba)  - Department Head 
Pheromonal regulation of vitellogenesis in worker honey bees, management of varroa mites, the application of honey bee pheromones in crop pollination and physiological, ecological, and behavioural studies of insect pollinators.

Tel: (204) 474-6020
Email: rob_currie@umanitoba.ca
Website

Alejandro C. Costamagna,, Ph.D. (Michigan State University)
Insect ecology in agricultural landscapes; ecosystem services, biodiversity, and landscape structure; insect dispersal; predator-prey interactions; trophic and guild interactions in multi-species assemblages; bottom-up and top-down regulation; trophic cascades; biological control; sustainable management of agricultural pests.

Tel: (204) 474-9007
Email: Ale_Costamagna@umanitoba.ca
Website

Terry Galloway, Ph.D. (Manitoba) 
Biology and management of arthropod pests of wild and domestic animals, interactions of ectoparasites and their hosts, taxonomy of flea larvae, forensic entomology and life histories and production of aquatic insects.

Tel: (204) 474-6024
Email: terry_galloway@umanitoba.ca
Website

 

Barb Sharanowski, Ph.D. (University of Kentucky) 
Phylogenomic methods and theory to understand the evolution of Hymenoptera, taxonomy and systematics of Ichneumonoidea, particularly Braconidae, revision of the world genera of Helconinae (Braconidae), development of new technology for the molecular characterization of species.

Tel: (204) 474-7485
Email: barb_sharanowski@umanitoba.ca
Website
Personal Website



 

Kateryn Rochon, Ph.D. (North Carolina State University) 
Vector ecology, arthropod-livestock interactions, arthropod-microbe interactions, geographic distribution of disease vectors, livestock pest management, emerging and re-emerging arthropod-borne diseases.

Tel: (204) 474-8640
Email: kateryn_rochon@umanitoba.ca
Website
INSTRUCTOR
 

Jordan Bannerman, M.P.M. (Simon Fraser University)
Insect ecology in the context of climate change, host-parasitoid dynamics, host-parasitoid trophic interactions, behavioural ecology of aphid parasitoids, biological control of agricultural pests.

Tel: (204) 480-1021
Email: jordan.bannerman@ad.umanitoba.ca

SUPPORT STAFF

Margaret Ann Baker
Administrative Assistant

Tel: (204) 474-9470
Email: ma_baker@umanitoba.ca

   

Kathy Graham
Department Secretary & Graduate Student Coordinator

Tel: (204) 474-8077
Email: kathy_graham@umanitoba.ca

   

Carol Schlamb
Receptionist

Tel: (204) 474-9257
Email: schlamb@cc.umanitoba.ca

 

   

Lisa Babey
Technician

Tel: (204) 474-6951
Email: lisa_babey@umanitoba.ca

   
Dave Holder
Technician

Tel: (204) 474-6947
Email: dave_holder@umanitoba.ca

SENIOR SCHOLARS

Neil J. Holliday, Ph.D. (Bristol)
Ecology and management of crop pest insects, biological control, population biology and ecology of carabid beetles, feeding and evolutionary ecology of geometrid moths, biodiversity in managed forest ecosystems.

Tel: (204) 474-8365
Email: neil_holliday@umanitoba.ca
Website

Pat MacKay, Ph.D. (British Columbia)

Ecology, physiology and geographic variability of aphid polymorphism, dispersal, overwintering and density regulation. Economic aspects of aphid biology, including  economic thresholds and sequential sampling schemes for aphid pests of field crops. 

Tel: (204) 474-9204
Email: pa_mackay@umanitoba.ca

ADJUNCT PROFESSORS

Adjunct and Honourary Research Professors associated with the Department may supervise graduate students, but some are available only to be members of student's advisory committees. Current adjuncts, their affiliations and areas of expertise are given below. Enquiries about willingness to supervise graduate students should, in the first instance, be directed to the Department Head.

Franklin H. Arthur

 

 

United States Dept. of Agriculture, Grain Marketing and Production Center

 

Ecology and control of stored-product insects in bulk raw grains, processing facilities, and food storage centers.

 

Paul G. Fields Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada Stored products entomology: alternatives to fumigants
Andre Gassmann CABI Bioscience, Switzerland  
Hariet Hinz CABI Bioscience, Switzerland  
Mahmood Iranpour University of Manitoba Biological control and molecular taxonomy of biting flies
Ulrich Kuhlmann CABI Bioscience, Switzerland Biological control of agricultural insect pests
Robert J. Lamb Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada Management of crop pests, host plant resistance, aphid biology
L. Robbin Lindsay Health Canada Arthropod-borne zoonotic diseases
Peter G. Mason Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada Biological and integrated control of agricultural insects pests
Rory McIntosh Sask. Environment, Forest Service Branch Forest
entomology, behavioural ecology and integrated pest management.
Michael J. Paterson Fisheries & Oceans Canada Freshwater ecology, roles of aquatic insects in pollutant dynamics
Cheryl Podemski Fisheries & Oceans Canada Freshwater ecology, effects of contaminants on aquatic invertebrates
David M. Rosenberg Fisheries & Oceans Canada Freshwater ecology, aquatic invertebrates as indicators of ecological impact
Jade Savage Dept. of Biological Sciences, Bishop's University Biodiversity, taxonomy and
phylogeny of alpine and northern flies, more specifically those
belonging to the families Muscidae and Fanniidae.
Marjorie Smith Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Host plant resistance to insect pests
Juliana J. Soroka Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada Ecological crop protection, IPM in oilseeds, legumes and grasses
Désirée Vanderwel University of
Winnipeg		 Biochemistry, biosynthesis of insect pheromones
A. Richard Westwood University of
Winnipeg		 Forest entomology, biology of Lepidoptera

Noel D. G. White

 

Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada

 

Protection of stored train and grain products

 

HONOURARY PROFESSORS

S.R. Loschiavo
R.N. Sinha


EMERITUS PROFESSORS

R.A. Brust