Group leader:

Prof. Jeff Bale: Climate change, insect overwintering and pest outbreaks. Research outline

Post-doctoral researchers:

Steaphan Hazell Project outline

Technical support:

Bolette Palle Pedersen: Project outline

Third and Fourth year postgraduates:

Clare Couldridge: Promoter activity in Arabidopsis thaliana in response to sucking-insect pest feeding; implications for a biotech approach to pest control, funded by BBSRC and Syngenta. Project outline

Adam Petherwick: Rapid cold hardening in insecticide susceptible and resistant clones of the aphid Myzus persicae, funded by BBSRC.  Project outline

Second year postgraduates:

Claire Allen: Project outline

First year postgraduates:

Lucy Alford: project outline

Gwen Hughes: project outline

Recent group members:

Ian Hatherly: Availability of wild prey as a factor affecting the establishment of non-native biocontrol agents in the UK, funded by Defra. Project outline

Phil Mason: Cold tolerance in hoverflies, funded by NERC. Project outline

Mike Weeks: Insect infestations in water treatment processes. Project outline

Emma Hunt: Investigating plant-aphid interactions by manipulating aphid diet in planta, funded by BBSRC and Syngenta. Project outline

Sarah Powell: Rapid cold hardening in the aphid Sitobion avenae, funded by BBSRC. Project outline