Welcome

The Department of Entomology at the University of Wisconsin – Madison is a world-class graduate training and research institution committed to advancing research in insect biology in both basic and applied contexts. 

We offer an MS and Ph.D. degree (ranked in the top 5 nationally) in Entomology and an undergraduate major. 

Our 14 faculty members along with our graduate students, postdoctoral associates, affiliated and emeritus professors offer a dynamic and interdisciplinary research and teaching environment to prepare students for a future in entomology.    

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New Papers

Peng R, Maklokova VI, Chandrashekhar JH, Lan Q. 2011. In vivo functional genomic studies of sterol carrier protein-2 gene in the yellow fever mosquito. PLoS ONE. 6(3):e18030

Meehan, T. D., B. P. Werling, D. A. Landis, and C. Gratton. 2011. Agricultural landscape simplification and insecticide use in the Midwestern United States. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108:11500 -11505. doi:10.1073/pnas.1100751108.

Kajla MK, Shi L, Li B, Luckhart S, Li J, Paskewitz SM. 2011. A New Role for an Old Antimicrobial: Lysozyme c-1 Can Function to Protect Malaria Parasites in Anopheles Mosquitoes. PLoS ONE 6(5): e19649. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0019649