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Dr Richard Markham

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Adjunct Associate Professor (Sustainable Development), ACPIR
Dr Richard Markham trained as an entomologist (PhD Imperial College, UK, 1981)
1980s biological control of crop pests and weeds in East Africa
1989-95 IPM of grain storage pests, West Africa and Central America
1995-01 CGIAR System-wide Program on IPM – Africa, Asia, Americas
2003-08 INIBAP Conservation and use of GR – banana, cocoa, coconut
2008-18 ACIAR Research Program Manager – Pacific Crops and Hort.
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Research Topics of Interest:
Ecology and management of crop pests
2008-2013 Based in Suva, Fiji, Research Program Manager for ACIAR Pacific Crops (including the ACIAR PG Scholarship Program at USP)
and covering seven South Pacific island countries.
2013-2018 ACIAR Research Program Manager for Horticulture, covering same 7 PICs, plus additional Asian and African countries

Prof Michael Furlong

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Professor
Prof Michael Furlong’s research focuses on the biological control and integrated management of insect pests. Understanding the ecological and biological relationships between insects and their natural enemies (pathogens, parasitoids and predators) and the interactions between these natural enemies is fundamental to effective biological control and is central to my research. Strategies which manipulate natural enemies to enhance their impact on pest populations are under development, examples include:
• Integration of biological stressors and fungal entomopathogens for improved control of insect pests
• Reduced insecticide inputs combined with the provision of adult food sources to enhance endemic parasitoid performance
• Utilising inducible plant defences to manipulate pests and improve the effectiveness of natural enemies.
Externally funded research projects concentrate on the development of sustainable pest management strategies for insect pests in developing countries. In Indonesia the structure and function of the natural enemy complexes attacking the diamondback moth (Plutella xylostella) and the cabbage cluster caterpillar (Crocidolomia pavonana) are being determined. In Samoa the biology and ecology of the egg parasitoid Trichogramma chilonis is being investigated and the possibility of its release as a biological control agent of C. pavonana in Fiji, Tonga and Solomon Islands explored. Research in Fiji is focused on quantifying field resistance of the diamondback moth to commonly used insecticides. An insecticide resistance management strategy has been developed and will be implemented in collaboration with UN-FAO.
I cannot take on any new students in 2023.

Principal Supervisor to 10 PhD students.
Co-Supervisor to 5 PhD students.

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