Entomology at Clemson

Holly C. Tuten Holly

Ph.D. Student

CONTACT
114 Long Hall, Box 340315
Department of Entomology, Soils, and Plant Sciences
Clemson University
Clemson, South Carolina 29634-0315
Phone: (864) 656-5070
FAX: (864) 656-5069
E-mail: htuten@clemson.edu

ADVISOR
Peter H. Adler, Ph.D.

AREAS OF INTEREST
All things parasitic, zoonotic, or hematophagic.

Currently I am wrapping up a survey of mosquito breeding habitats in the Riverbanks Zoo, Columbia, S.C., and the Greenville Zoo, Greenville, S.C.

The rest of my doctoral research will consist of identifying mosquito hosts in the two zoos by analyzing blood-meals, conducting oviposition choice tests in the lab and then field validating them in the zoos, and conducting larval competition tests in the lab and field.

Mosquitoes are the basis of my doctoral research but I am interested in many aspects of ecology and entomology. Lately I have been reading about: Hopkin's host-selection principle, the evolution of aposematic coloration and mimicry, behavior and learning in insect vectors, insect intermediate hosts of the rat tapeworm (Hymenolepis diminuta), insect parasites and human culture, parasite importance to ecological food webs, and human evolutionary history.

EDUCATION

B.S. (2006) Biology (with Chemistry minor). University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.

NEWSPAPER ARTICLES

"Tigra Scientifica" for Clemson Campus Newspaper as pdf files

Science, intelligent design, and natural selection

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch

Plastics Permeate the Ecosphere

Cutting Plastic consumption

Science Debate 2008

Bioprospecting: when money grows on trees

The Science of Sleep

The Plight of the Parasite

Family Heirlooms

The Glass Marshmallow--Aerogel

Low-cost, high-impact Technology for the developing world

Eye Robot

PICTURES

Mosquito larva
Culex salinarius larva

Mosquito larvae
Culex salinarius larvae

Emerging male mosquito
Adult male emerging



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