The Leafhopper Lab is led by Illinois State Entomologist Chris Dietrich.
PostDoctoral Fellows
- Yanghui Cao, systematics of leafhoppers, bioinformatics
- Valleria Trivellone, ecology and genetics of leafhopper vectors of plant pathogens
Graduate Students
- Brendan Morris, PhD student, systematics of Centrotinae
- Rachel Skinner, PhD student, phylogenomics of Hemiptera
Visiting Scholars
- Adilson Pinedo-Escatel, Universidad de Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
- Jin Hyung Kwon, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea
Former Lab Members
Daniela Takiya, Laboratorio de Entomologia, Universidad do Rio de Janeiro
Roman Rakitov, Paleontological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
Adam Wallner, USDA APHIS-PPQ, Miami
Sindhu Krishnankutty, Xavier University, Ohio
Therese Catanach, Drexel University, Philadelphia
Dmitry Dmitriev, Biodiversity Informatician, INHS
James Zahniser, USDA APHIS-PPQ, U. S. National Museum, Washington
- Maria Inés Catalano, Centro de Bioinvestigaciones (UNNOBA-CICBA), Pergamino, Argentina
- Wu Dai, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China
- Yani Duan, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, Anhui, China
- Ana Gonçalves, Universidad do Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
- Yuehua Song, Guizhou Normal University, Guiyang, Guizhou, China
- Liyuan Yang, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China
- Yang Wang, Shangluo University, Shangluo, Shaanxi, China