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Petra Hafker is a Ph.D. student of entomology in the lab of Christophe Duplais, associate professor of entomology at Cornell AgriTech. Hailing from Richmond, Virginia, as an undergraduate student, Petra studied the invasive spongy moth at the...
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A new publicly available tool uses data from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s eBird program to track and estimate the diversity of wild bees across the eastern and central U.S. - with implications for conservation and agriculture.
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Academic focus: Insect environmental physiology Research summary: I study how insects survive and thrive in harsh environments. Although we center our research on the insect, we follow mechanisms all the way to molecular biology and consequences...
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Academic focus: Trait evolution, genomics and phylogenetics Research summary: I study why and how phenotypic traits evolve in insects. I focus on traits that often differ between the sexes, such as color patterns, and try to understand how...
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Academic focus: Biodiversity big data and insect conservation Research summary: The goal of my research is to help improve insect conservation by developing statistical methods that better use all available data. While the distribution of some...