Judd Lab Members

Drop Downs are Awesome!

Graduate Students:

 

Dinesh Erram

Project: Seasonal changes in kin recognition in Polistes metricus

 

Micah Janzow

Project: The effect of food and soil on the nutrient acquisition of the termite Reticulitermes flavipes.

 

Jodie Rowland

Project: Nutritional ecology of the pest species Dectes

Undergraduate Students:

 

Nora Glick

Project: Quantifying fatty acid content in adults of two species of leaf cutting bees.

 

Deborah Hoekel

Project: The effect of calcium on the timing of asexual splitting in sea stars

 

David Jenkins

Project: Comparison of the micronutrient content of foragers and non-foragers of the ant Temnothorax curvispinosus.

 

Carrie Leadbetter

Project: Effects of vitamins on termite foraging behavior and survival

 

Bobby Sheppard

Project: The effect of potting soil on termite foraging behavior.

 

Stacie Stilinovic

Project: The nutritional ecology of termites

 

Joshua Trbovich

Project: Effect of learned cues on termite forging behavior

 

Bruce Wallace

Project: The effect of time of year of sugar preferences of different populations of the termite Reticulitermes flavipes

Coauthor: Wallace, BA & TM Judd. In prep.

Former students

 

Graduate

Brent Ashcraft

Project: Seasonal changes in micronutrient levels in the ant, Temnothorax curvispinosus

Current location: Teaching at Perryville High School, Perryville MO.

Coauthor: Ashcraft, BA & TM Judd. In prep.

 

Paul Botch

Project: The effects of micronutrients on the foraging behavior of the termite Reticulitermes flavipes

Current location: Ph.D. Student: Department of Entomology, University of Missouri Columbia.

Coauthor: Botch, PS, MC Beers, & TM Judd 2007. Bulletin of the Maryland Herpetological Society. 43:162-166.

               Botch, PS, C Brennan, & TM Judd in press. Sociobiology. 55:

 

Jason Carbaugh

Project: Dominance hierarchy, nutrients, and slaves’ foraging choices in the slave-making ant colony Protomognathus americanus

Current location: Ph.D. Student: Department of Entomology, Texas A&M.

Coauthor: Carbaugh, JR & TM Judd. In prep.

 

Emmanuel Opoku

Project: The distribution of micronutrients in crickets

Current location: Ontario, Canada

 

Bridget Jackson

Project: Succession of Necrophililous insects on Red-tail Hawk carcasses in Missouri.

Current location: Missouri Department of Conservation

  

Matt Lucas

Project: Molecular phylogenetic analysis of scleractinian coral

Current location: Ph.D. Student: University of Puerto Rico, San Juan

 

 

Undergraduate

Shannon Ballard

Project: The effects of calcium and phosphorus on the regeneration of Planaria

 

Katie Beers

Project: The effects of micronutrients on the foraging behavior in ants

Current location: Saint Louis University, Environmental studies program

Coauthor: Botch, PS, MC Beers, & TM Judd 2007. Bulletin of the Maryland Herpetological Society. 43:162-166.

 

Casey Brennan

Project: Seasonal effects of nitrogen and phosphates on the feeding preference in the termite Reticulitermes flavipes

Coauthor:  Botch, PS, C Brennan, & TM Judd in press. Sociobiology. 55:

 

Cammi Corbin

Project:  Effect of cellulose concentration on the feeding preferences of the termite Reticulitermes flavipes

Coauthor: Judd TM and CC Corbin. Sociobiology. 53: 775-784.

 

Rachel Ford

Project: The distribution of macronutrients in termite colonies

 

Valerie Duvall

Project: The distribution of phosphorus in lab fed colonies of the ant, Leptothorax curvispinosus

 

Josh Hager

Project: The nutritional ecology of the solitary wasp Monobia quadridens

 

Amanda Hondel

Project: The change in nutrient levels during metamorphosis of the solitary wasp Ancistrocerus.

 

Marcus House

Project:  Distribution of phosphorus in colonies of the termite Reticulitermes flavipes

 

Roxane Magnus

Project: Differences in micronutrient levels in castes of Polistes wasps

Current location:  University of Arkansas, Department of Entomology

Coauthor: Judd TM, RM Magnus and MP Fasnacht. In press. Journal of Insect Physiology.

 

Damien Myers

Project: Nutritional ecology of solitary bees

Current location:  Howard University

 

Greg Reece

Project: Affect of micronutrients on the N-fixing bacteria populations in termites

 

Ryan Shores

Project: The distribution of phosphorus in lab fed colonies of the ant, Leptothorax curvispinosus

 

Zachary Short

Project: Are termites attracted to potting soil?

 

Tony Sgroi

Project: The distribution of macronutrients in slave maker colonies and the free living hosts.