The Insect Division houses a world-class collection with over 4.5 million specimens from all over the globe. An emphasis on specific taxonomic groups has produced outstanding collections of the Acari, Orthoptera, and Odonata, and to a lesser extent, the Homoptera, Coleoptera and Lepidoptera. The aquatic groups and a significant portion of the mite collection are databased and there is an ongoing effort to make the rest of the collection digitally accessible.
Insect Division News
New Publication by Mark F. O'Brien: Odonatological history in Michigan - 1875-1996. The Great Lakes Entomologist 41(1&2):1-11.
Elen Oneal has accepted and started a postdoctoral fellowship at Duke University, where she will be working with John Willis on the evolutionary genetics of adaptation in natural populations.
L. Lacey Knowles talks with ScienceWatch.com and answers a few questions about this month's Fast Breaking Paper in the field of Environment & Ecology. (more)
Connallon awarded Tinkle Scholarship
Tim Connallon has been awarded the Donald W. Tinkle
Scholarship from the U-M Museum of Zoology. This $5,000 award is a special recognition of his research excellence. Connallon
is researching the genetics of the fruit fly Drosophila. The scholarship was endowed by the family and friends of Donald W.
Tinkle, former curator of herpetology and director of the Museum of Zoology.
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L. Lacey Knowles and Scott Edwards organized a symposium on "Species Trees and Gene Tree Heterogeneity: Concepts, Estimation and Empirical Applications", sponsored by the Society for Systematic Biology, at the 2008 Evolution Meetings, Minneapolis, MN.
L.Lacey Knowles invited to give plenary address at the 10th International Congress of Orthopterology, Akdeniz University, Antalya, Turkey.