Biography:
Carmen Isabel Castillo Carrillo, Ph.D. and M.Sc. in Entomology (WSU, USA and WUR, Netherlands, respectively). Her research runs about developing integrated pest management of agricultural pests, including vector-pathogen relationships and biological control. She develop research projects to help low-income farmers in the Ecuadorian Highlands. She have been working in the National Institute of Agricultural Research of Ecuador for two decades. She had internships and work-lab practices in Japan, Spain and New Zealand. Nowadays, She focused on molecular characterization and identification of pathogens and insect vectors of emerging plant diseases.
Title : A population genomics approach to inferring local movement of plant pathogen vectors (Bactericera cockerelli, Hemiptera: Triozidae) among solanaceous hosts