LAB NEWS
11/2022 - Congrats to Christian who just moved to Kentucky!
07/2022 - We're growing! Our lab has expanded into the lab next door.
03/2022 - We've been awarded two USDA PPA 7721 grants to survey for spinosad resistance in fruit flies and develop a novel fruit fly management method.
01/2022 - Welcome to the lab Maya Montoya-Pimolwatana (MS Candidate)!
08/2021 - New lab members have joined! Welcome MS Candidates Kevin Armstrong and April Grummer.
08/24/2020 - Christian Streit has switched over from technician to MS candidate!
05/25/2020 - Welcome to Sarah Pennington and Christian Streit! Sarah is an undergraduate student research hired through a faculty mentoring grant. Christian was hired as a lab/field technician to work on melon fly IPM.
01/13/2020 - Welcome Morgan Pugh (MS candidate)! First graduate student in the Shikano Lab. Morgan took my General Entomology course (PEPS 363) last year.
10/28/2019 - Awarded an internal grant (CTAHR FY2020 Research/Extension Capacity Funds) as co-PI with Dr. Koon-Hui Wang (lead-PI), Dr. Brent Sipes (co-PI), and many CTAHR extension agents! We'll be developing sustainable methods for the control of diamondback moths. Now looking for my first graduate student!
08/01/2019 - The beginning of the Shikano Lab! Hopefully buzzing with students and filled with new equipment soon.