- GRANT GENTRY
- Tulane University
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
- 310 Dinwiddie Hall
- New Orleans, LA 70118
- Lab (504) 862-8289
- Office (504) 247-1549
- ggentry@tulane.edu
- bungalotis@hotmail.com
Education:
- Ph.D. University of California at Los Angeles, September 1998
- B.A. Austin College, May 1989
Professional Experience:
Research
- Senior Research Associate: Tulane University, I am studying whether introduced parasitoid
- biological control agents of sugarcane borer are attacking non-target Crambidae in grasses
- in Louisiana's natural areas.
- Research Associate: University of Maryland with Dr. Pedro Barbosa. I studied morphological
- characteristics of crop plants that increased the effectiveness of parasitoid wasps as biological
- control agents. 2000-2003
- Postdoctoral Fellow: Mesa State College with Dr. Lee Dyer. At the La Selva Biological Station,
- Costa Rica: I studied the efficacies of lepidopteran larval defenses against parasitoids, with an
- emphasis on chemical defenses derived from host plants.1998- 2000
- Dissertation Research: University of California, Los Angeles. At the La Selva Biological
- Station, Costa Rica: I investigated the possibility of insect/plant mutualisms between
- parasitoid insects and an extrafloral nectary plant in the Solanaceae. 1994-1996
- Teaching
- Tulane University Fall 2004: General Ecology
- Tulane University Spring 2004: Global Environmental Change
- University of Maryland 2003: Insect-Plant Interactions; Collaborated in the development
and execution of the laboratory.- Organization for Tropical Studies 1999: Field problems for Tropical Ecology
- Mesa State College Fall1999: Co-instructor for Insect Biology, and Tropical Ecosystems
- Organization for Tropical Studies 1997: Field problems for Tropical Biodiversity
- University of California:Los Angeles 1993-1996: Laboratory portions for several classes.
Other Skills:
- Parasitic Hymenoptera Training Session XII 2002: Intensive course teaching
- identification skills for all common parasitic hymenoptera to family and subfamily.
- Ten years of experience rearing, identifying, and curating larvae and adults of Lepidoptera,
Hymenoptera, and Diptera.- Intermediate Spanish speaker
- Grants/Awards Received:
- NSF: Biotic Surveys and Inventories $180,000, with Dr. Lee Dyer and collaborators, 2004
- J. Bennett Johnston Science Foundation $5000, 2003
- Earthwatch Institute $145,000+, with Dr. Lee Dyer 1996-2001
- National Geographic Society $20,000, with Dr. Lee Dyer 1996
- OTS Tropical Fieldwork Fellowship $5000, 1995
- UCLA Departmental and Interdepartmental Fellowships $12,000, 1994-1996
- Associations/Affiliations:
- Entomological Society of America
- Ecological Society of America
- Review Service:
- Ecological Entomology, Environmental Entomology, Functional Ecology,
- Journal of Insect Science
- Publications:
- Gentry, G. L. 2003. Parasitoid visitors to the extrafloral nectaries of Solanum adherens: is
- Solanum adherens an insectary plant?. Basic and Applied Ecology 4:405-411
- Gentry, G. L. and L. Dyer 2002. On the conditional nature of neotropical caterpillar
defenses against their natural enemies. Ecology 83:3108-3119
- Gentry, G. L. and Dyer, L. Caterpillars of La Selva, Costa Rica. www.caterpillars.org
- Dyer, L. and G. Gentry 1999. Predicting natural enemy responses to herbivores in
natural and managed systems. Ecological Applications 9:402-408.
- Dyer, L. A., Gentry, G. L., and Tobler, M.A. Fitness consequences of herbivory:
impacts on asexual reproduction of tropical rainforest understory plants. Biotropica 36: 68-73