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Professor Helmut van Emden

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Specialism

Applied Entomology, Pest Management

Areas of interest

Insect-plant relationships from the community level in agroecosystems (ecosystem services of biodiversity) to the genetic and mechanistic level in terms of host plant resistance and to the individual insect level exemplified by the nutritional physiology of aphids and the olfactory responses of parasitoids of aphids to host plant cues.

Teaching

Available if required:

  • Insect and mite pests of crops
  • Insect Pest Management
  • Pesticides and their supplication
  • Design and analysis of experiments
 

Research centres and groups

Sustainable Land Management, Centre for Agri-Environmental Research

Research projects

  • Fully-defined artificial diet for aphids
  • Effect of UV-blocking polytunnel claddings on the residual life of insecticides
  • Factors affecting the inter-individual spacing of aphids

Background

Born 30.12.1933 in Dresden Germany, before the family moved to London in 1936. Educated at Tiffin Boys’ School, Kingston-on-Thames and Imperial College (Department of Zoology and Pure and Applied Entomology.

Career:

  • 1999 – Emeritus Professor of Horticulture.
  • 1992-1999 Translated to Chair of Horticulture
  • 1991-1996 Head of the School of Plant Sciences
  • 1986-1999 Head of Department of Horticulture,
  • 1982 Visiting Scholar at Queensland Agricultural College, Australia
  • 1980 Visiting Professor in the Department of Entomology at the University of Queensland, Australia.
  • 1976-1992 Promoted to a Personal Professorship
  • 1973 (Feb-June) Visiting Associate Professor in the Division of Biological Control, Department of Entomology and Parasitology, University of California, Berkeley
  • 1972 -1976 Promoted to Reader
  • October 1961-1972 Appointed Lecturer in the Department of Horticulture, The 澳门六合彩开奖记录
  • January-October 1961 Temporary Lecturer in the Department of Pure and Applied Zoology, Imperial College of Science and Technology, London
  • 1958-1960 Agricultural Research Council Research Assistantto Dr T.R.E. Southwood, Department of Pure and Applied Zoology, Imperial College of Science and Technology, London
  • 1955-1958 PhD studies inDepartment of Pure and Applied Zoology, Imperial College of Science and Technology, London
  • 1952-1958 BSc in Zoology and Applied Entomology,Imperial College of Science and Technology, London

Academic qualifications

BSc (1st) (London), PhD (London), ARCS, DIC (Imperial College, London), Hon. FRES.

Awards and honours

Awarded the Forbes (1953) and Huxley (1973) medals and prizes of Imperial College, London and in 1993 the Karl Escherisch medal of the German Society of General and Applied Entomology. BCPC Medal in 2005 for services to Crop Production. . Appointed a Rothamsted Fellow (1998-2016).

Professional bodies/affiliations

President (1981-1983) and Honorary Treasurer (1989-1999) of the Royal Entomological Society; elected an Honorary Fellow in 1999. President (2000 and 2001) of the Association of Applied Biologists, elected an Honorary member in 2002. Elected to the Entomological Club in 1972,Verrall member (1972–2012), Honorary Treasurer (2004-2018), elected an Honorary Member in 2019. Fellow of the Linnean Society.

Websites/blogs

Selected publications

van Emden. H.F. 2022. Conservation biological control of insect pests. CABI Reviews, 17, no. 24, 1-10.
van Emden, H. F. and Wild, E.A. 2020.  A fully defined artificial diet for Myzus persicae - the detailed technical manual. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, 68, 582-586.
van Emden, H. F.   2019. Statistics for Terrified Biologists. 2nd edition, Blackwell, Oxford, 402 pp.
van Emden, H. F. and Harrington R. (eds), 2017.   Aphids as Crop Pests, 2nd edn. CABI, Wallingford, 686 pp.
van Emden, H. F. 2014. Pros and cons of GM crops as a source of resistance to insect pests. World Agriculture, 4(2), 53-59.
van   Emden, H. F.   2013. Handbook of Agricultural Entomology. Wiley-Blackwell, Chichester, 312 pp
van Emden, H.F. (ed.) 1972.   Aphid Technology.   Academic Press, London, 318 pp. 
van Emden, H. F., 1965.   The role of uncultivated land in the biology of crop pests and beneficial insects. Scientific Horticulture, 17, 121-136.

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