Veronica Manrique

Veronica Manrique achieved her B.S. in Biology at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Throughout the last year of her undergraduate course, she worked as a research assistant at the USDA-ARS South America Biological Control laboratory in Buenos Aires. During this time, she was able to travel all through the North provinces of Argentina, and parts of Paraguay involved in several insect collection trips. She got experience in rearing colonies of Lepidopteran species, mirids pest, and Tapajosa species. She was also responsible for the maintenance of nymphal and egg parasitoids. This is where her interest began to build in insects and in the area of biological control. From May to November 2000 Veronica worked as a Foreign Research Associate at the USDA-ARS SIMRU in Stoneville, Mississippi. During this period she was involved in different projects concerning the use of Anaphes iole as a biological control agent against Lygus spp. In the fall of 2001 she started her M.S. at Texas A&M University under Dr. Julio Bernal. Her thesis focus on the study of tritrophic interactions between Anaphes iole and Lygus hesperus, an important pest of cotton, reared in different host plants. Veronica is especially interested on conservation and augmentation biological control, as well as population ecology, host-plant interactions, parasitoid behavior and tritrophic interactions. During her free time she likes to read, listen to music, and dance to Latin music.

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E-mail:
veronicman@neo.tamu.edu

Veronica is Treasurer of the Entomology Student Graduate Organization