Nick Seiter, Research Assistant Professor, Field Crop Entomology

Nick Seiter, Ph.D. Research Assistant Professor, Field Crop Entomology nseiter@illinois.edu | 217.300.7199 | Twitter: @nick_seiter

Brodie Dunn, M.S. student in Crop Sciences. Brodie studies the effects of cereal rye cover crops on beneficial and pest insects.

L. Brodie Dunn, M.S. student in Crop Sciences

Thesis topics:
Assessment of the arthropod community in Rye Cereal crops and their potential impact on soybeans.
Impact of Cereal Rye cover crops and associate arthropods on the use of agricultural fields by Avian fauna.

Other research interests:
Agriculture, conservation, and public space policy.
Extension and outreach techniques.

Personal interests:
I’m the president of the local Audubon Chapter, an avid reader, art lover, and a very amateur writer and artist.

Yony T. Callohuari Quispe, Ph.D. student in Crop Sciences. Yony studies management of the western corn rootworm.

Yony T. Callohuari Quispe, Ph.D. student in Crop Sciences

B.A. in Business Administration by Universidad Nacional Jorge Basadre Grohmann, Tacna, Peru                                                                                                                         B.S. in Agronomy by National Agrarian University La Molina, Lima, Peru                           M.S. in Entomology by National Agrarian University La Molina, Lima, Peru

Dissertation topics:
Improving the ability to predict economic damage by the western and northern corn rootworms (Diabrotica virgifera virgifera LeConte and Diabrotica barberi Smith & Lawrence; Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae).

Other research interests:
Insect diversity, extension, other insect pests in crops and its relationship with pathogens.

Personal interests:                                                                                                       Insect photography, general insect taxonomy, 3D technology for education, production of educational material for general public.