Lauren E. Culler
M.S. Student

E-mail: leculler(at)gmail.com
Phone: 301-405-3952
Fax: 301-314-9290
Mail: Department of Entomology * 4112 Plant Sciences Building * University of Maryland * College Park, MD 20742-4454
 
 
Research Interests
I am broadly interested in the ecology of predaceous diving beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) in natural and restored freshwater wetlands. My research is focused on:

1. determining seasonal and spatial patterns of invertebrate predators in the Jackson Lane wetlands, Caroline County, MD

2. determining selection of prey by larvae of the predaceous diving beetle, Agabus punctatus, and assessing the ability of this predator to contribute to natural supression of mosquito larvae in wetlands



RECENT PRESENTATIONS
Culler, L.E., and W.O. Lamp. 2007. Beetle assemblages in natural and constructed wetlands on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. Entomological Society of America Annual Meeting, San Diego, California

Culler, L.E., W.O. Lamp, M.R. Haube and D. Samson. 2007. Response of macroinvertebrate communities to restoration of a degraded Delmarva Bay. North American Benthological Society Annual Meeting, Columbia, South Carolina

Culler, L.E., W.O. Lamp, M.R. Haube. 2006. Patterns of macroinvertebrate community development in constructed seasonal wetlands and a restored Delmarva Bay on a Maryland farm. Entomological Society of America Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, Indiana

Smith, R.F., M.A. Palmer, W.O. Lamp, and L.E. Culler. 2006. Relationships of aquatic insect communities between headwater and main-stem streams in urban and rural watersheds. North American Benthological Society Annual Meeting, Anchorage, Alaska


 
 
Education
B.S. Biological Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, MD. 2005
 
 
Representative Publications
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Culler, L.E. and M. Raupp. 2007. Roses beware. Groundwork (A publication of the Landscape Contractors Association MD-DC-VA).
 

Abdoulaye, D., R.K. Dabire, K. Heidenberger, J. Crawford, W. Lamp, L. Culler, and T. Lehmann. 2008. Evidence for divergent selection between the molecular forms of Anopheles gambiae: role of predation. BMC Evolutionary Biology 8:5.
 

 

Awards and Recognition

Jacob K. Goldhaber Travel Grant Award, College of Life Sciences, University of Maryland, 2007

College of Agriculture and Natural Resources Outstanding Teaching Assistant Nominee

 

Teaching

Teaching Assistant, BSCI103 The World of Biology, Fall 2007

Teaching Assistant, BSCI337 Biology of Insects, Spring 2008

 

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