User:Jonathan Lundgren

Education 2004 Ph.D. Entomology University of Illinois 2000 M.S. Entomology University of Minnesota 1998 B.S. Biology University of Minnesota

Employment: 2011-Present Research Entomologist GS-14 (Lead Scientist), North Central Agricultural Research Laboratory, USDA-ARS 2008-2011 Research Entomologist GS-13 (Lead Scientist), North Central Agricultural Research Laboratory, USDA-ARS 2004-2008 Research Entomologist GS-12, North Central Agricultural Research Laboratory, USDA-ARS 2003-2004 Associate research scientist, Center for Ecological Entomology, Illinois Natural History Survey

Honors and Awards (past 4 yr): •Early Career Innovation Award, Entomological Society of America, 2011. •Presidential Early Career Award for Science and Engineering; US Government’s highest national award, 2010. •Herbert L. Rothbart Outstanding Early Career Research Scientist Award, USDA-ARS’s highest national award, 2010.

Research Areas:

I am a predator ecologist, and my main areas of research include predator feeding ecology and nutritional physiology, integrating generalist predators within modern farming systems and ecological risk assessment, the importance of biodiversity in managing pests, and carabid taxonomy and natural history. Specific research systems include:

1) Physiological underpinnings of omnivory and feeding ecology of predatory ladybeetles (especially, Coleomegilla maculata). 2) Conserving generalist predator communities in cropland using vegetational diversity, especially in corn and soybeans. 3) Unravelling complex trophic interactions within soil-based food webs, and encouraging predation on weed seeds and insect pests. 4) The importance of endosymbionts to expanding the dietary breadth of insects. 5) The reproductive ecology of predatory Heteroptera (especially Orius insidiosus), and understanding how food quality and plant characteristics influence bug behavior. 6) The economics of conservation biological control of insect pests and weed seedbanks.