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A lab is only as good as its people.

  • Greg Sword – Principal Investigator
  • Janaina Câmara – Postdoc/Lab Manager
  • Mason Clark – Postdoc

 

Graduate Students

  • Andie Miller – PhD student, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Program
  • Audélia Mechti – PhD student, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Program
  • Serena Farrell – PhD Student, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Program
  • Yong-Sin Lo – PhD Student, Department of Entomology
  • Eliyashaib James – PhD Student, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Program

Current undergrads / Research assistants

  • Jonathan Riggan
  • Miriam Torres
  • Jaime Garcia

Visiting Scholars

More coming soon

Collaborations

  • Todd Gilligan
  • Tom Walsh
  • Mike Kolomiets
  • Charles Suh
  • Steve Hague
  • David Kerns
  • Spencer Behmer
  • Keyan Zhu-Salzman
  • Steve Simpson
  • Jerome Buhl
  • Kang Le
  • Nathan Lo
  • Iain Couzin
  • David Branson
  • Hojun Song
  • Texas Boll Weevil Eradication Foundation

Former lab folks

Postdocs

  • Ashley Tessnow
  • Tyler Raszick
  • Loren Rivera-Vega
  • Carrie Deans
  • Zhen ‘Daisy’ Fu
  • Jason Wulff
  • Vijay Verma
  • Maria Julissa Ek-Ramos
  • Marie Pierre Chapuis
  • Karine Berthier
  • Donya Tohidi-Esfahani

Graduate students

  • Mason Clark (PhD)
  • Richard Feiss (PhD)
  • Leah Buchman (PhD)
  • Janaina Camara S. da Cunha (PhD)
  • Joe Black (PhD)
  • Ashley Tessnow (PhD)
  • Cody Gale (PhD)
  • Tyler Raszick (PhD)
  • Wenqing Zhou (PhD student & postdoc)
  • James Glover (PhD student)
  • Kate Crumley (MS student)
  • Lauren Kalns (MS student)
  • Carrie Deans (PhD student)
  • Diana Castillo Lopez (PhD student)
  • Josephine Antwi (PhD student)
  • Justin Fiene (PhD student)
  • Darron Cullen (PhD student)
  • Julie-Anne Popple (PhD student)
  • Katie Robinson (PhD student)
  • Pampapathy Gurulingappa (PhD student)
  • Tamara Pulpitel (PhD student)
  • Lindsey Gray (PhD & Honours student)
  • Matt Hansen (USYD Honour’s student)
  • Alicia Burns (USYD Honour’s student)
  • Monica Brygula (USYD Honour’s student)
  • Alanna Smith (USYD Honour’s student)
  • Megan Lee (USYD Honour’s student)

Visiting Scholars

  • Qiulin Wu – Nanjing Agricultural University
  • Xiang-ping Wang – Yangtze University
  • Xing-Yuan Men – Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences
  • Weidong Pan – Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • Elizabeth Jockusch – University of Connecticut (@ Sydney)
  • Alexandre Latchininsky – University of Wyoming (@ Sydney)

 

Legal Representation

  • Wayne E. Beaudoin

Why should you join the lab?

Recent Posts

  • New paper in Science changes the way we think about locust swarming
  • Sword Lab students win big at 2025 Beltwide Cotton Conference
  • Sword lab students win again at 2024 Entomological Society of America meeting!
  • Sword lab students win big at 2023 Entomological Society of America meeting!
  • Cotton gene-editing project paves a new path for plant protection
  • New PNAS paper about density-dependent warning coloration in adult locusts

Lab contact information

Gregory Sword

Professor & Charles R. Parencia Chair in Cotton Entomology

Department of Entomology,
Interdisciplinary Ecology & Evolutionary Biology (EEB) Degree Program, and
Molecular & Environmental Plant Sciences Program
Texas A&M University
TAMU 2475
College Station, TX, 77843, USA

Directions to lab: (Google map)
Entomology Research Lab Rm. 112-120

Email: gasword[at]tamu.edu
Phone: (979) 862-1702
Fax: (979) 845-6305

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