Adam R Zeilinger

Adam R Zeilinger, B.S.

(Ph.D. in progress)
  • Position:
    Graduate Student - Ph.D.

    Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology

    Entomology

    University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (Minneapolis, MN)

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  • Advisor:

    David Andow

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  • Degrees:
     
    Ph.D. (in progress), Conservation Biology, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (Minneapolis, MN)
     
    B.S., Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz (Santa Cruz, CA)
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  • Past Advisors:
     
    Deborah Letourneau (as Undergraduate Student)
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  • Research:
    Ecological risks from genetically modified crops.

    Outbreaks of non-target pests in genetically modified Bt cotton have required continued high insecticide use and reduced the expected environmental benefits of Bt cotton. In my research I am investigating the ecological causes of non-target stink bug outbreaks in Georgia, US and Brazil. My results indicate that reduced populations of caterpillar pests, resulting in reduced competition for stink bug populations, may be responsible for outbreaks in Georgia. In Brazil, my results indicate that stink bug outbreaks are unlikely. My research will contribute to predictions of the environmental risks and benefits of Bt cotton and other GM crops in the future.

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  • Other Experience:

    2005 Crew member, Uhane Kai sailing yacht

    2003 Intern, Community Agroecology Network, Agua Buena, Costa Rica

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  • Honors:

    2007 Honorable Mention National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship

    2005 Dean's Undergraduate Research Award, University of California, Santa Cruz

    2005 Chancellor's Undergraduate Research Award, University of California, Santa Cruz

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Adam Zeilinger's Posters and Presentations (9)

  • Competition between herbivore feeding guilds on cotton plants is species specific and likely plant-mediated (presentation)

    Adam R Zeilinger, Dawn M. Olson, David A. Andow

    Entomological Society of America, Indianapolis, IN; 12/2009
  • Competitive release of an agricultural insect pest: The case of stink bug outbreaks in transgenic Bt cotton in the southeast US (presentation)

    Adam R Zeilinger, Dawn M. Olson, David A. Andow

    Ecological Society of America, Albuquerque, NM; 08/2009
  • Causes of non-target pest outbreaks in transgenic Bt cotton: Stink bugs in southeast United States (presentation)

    Adam R Zeilinger, Dawn M. Olson, David A. Andow

    Florida A&M University seminar, Tallahassee, FL; 07/2009
  • Mecanismos dos surtos das pragas não-alvo no algodão trangenico Bt: Percevejos no sudeste de EUA e centroeste do Brasil (presentation)

    Adam R Zeilinger, Dawn M. Olson, David A. Andow

    Embrapa Cenargen seminar, Brasilia, Brazil; 03/2009
  • Competitive release as an ecological cause of stink bug outbreaks in transgenic Bt cotton in the southeast US (presentation)

    Adam R Zeilinger, Dawn M. Olson, David A. Andow

    Entomological Society of America, Reno, NV; 11/2008
  • Overseeing Oak Wilt: A Study of Risk Management Through In-Depth Interviews (presentation)

    Adam E. Kokotovitch, Adam R Zeilinger

    Minnesota Invasive Species Conference, Duluth, MN; 10/2008
  • Integrating biological and social science to assess management success of an exotic invasive tree pathogen (poster)

    Adam R Zeilinger, D. Smith, L. Sharpe, G. Quiram, A Kokotovitch, K. Koch, G. Dana, R. Venette, F. Homans, R. Haight

    NSF IGERT Primary Investigators Meeting, Washington, DC; 05/2008
  • Evaluating ecological causes of secondary pest outbreaks in transgenic Bt cotton: Implications for ecological risk analysis (presentation)

    Adam R Zeilinger, Dawn M. Olson, David A. Andow

    Entomological Society of America, San Diego, CA; 12/2007
  • . A field-scale survey of earthworm populations in Cry1Ab and Cry3Bb1 Bt-corn (poster)

    Adam R Zeilinger, David A. Andow

    9th International Symposium on the Biosafety of Genetically Modified Organisms, Jeju City, South Korea; 09/2006

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Nezara viridula (southern green stink bug) feeding on a developing cotton boll


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