Yolanda Fanslow Chen

Professor

Yolanda.Chen@uvm.edu
(802) 656-2627
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Yolanda.Chen@uvm.edu
+18026562627

63 Carrigan Drive
209 Jeffords Hall
Burlington, VT 05405
United States
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Alma mater(s)
  • Ph.D. Dept. of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley, 2001
  • B.S. Natural Resource Management, Rutgers University, NJ 1995
Affiliated Department(s)

Gund Faculty Fellow

Area(s) of expertise

Insect Ecology, Population Genetics, Agroecology, Evolutionary Biology, Insect-plant Interactions, Agroecology, Evolution, Epigenetics, Ecological Pest Management.

BIO

Humans have strongly influenced insect pest evolution and ecology through host shifts, crop domestication, change in cultivation practices, and human-mediated translocations. My research studies these themes to determine how we can use ecological and evolutionary information to improve sustainable pest management.

Courses

  • PSS 106 Entomology and Pest Management
  • PSS 232 Biological Control
  • PSS 296/396 Ecological Frontiers in Agroecology

Publications

Research Gate

Bio

Humans have strongly influenced insect pest evolution and ecology through host shifts, crop domestication, change in cultivation practices, and human-mediated translocations. My research studies these themes to determine how we can use ecological and evolutionary information to improve sustainable pest management.

Courses

  • PSS 106 Entomology and Pest Management
  • PSS 232 Biological Control
  • PSS 296/396 Ecological Frontiers in Agroecology

Publications

Research Gate

Associations and Affiliations

  • Colorado Potato Beetle Genome Project co-coordinator
  • Entomological Society of America
  • Society for the Study of Evolution
  • Consortium for Crop Genetic Heritage