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Associate Professor Geoff Allen

Associate Professor - Entomology

"BSc Hons (Uni NSW), PhD (Adelaide)"

Geoff Allen 2012

Contact Details

Contact Campus Sandy Bay Campus
Building Life Sciences Building
Telephone +61 3 6226 2732
Fax +61 3 6226 7444
Email Geoff.Allen@utas.edu.au

Teaching Responsibilities

  • KLA 255 Lower Life Forms: Insects and Plant Diseases (Unit Co-ordinator)
  • KLA 311 Crop Protection (Unit Co-ordinator)
  • KLA 314 Insect Ecology & Behaviour (Unit Co-ordinator)
  • KLA 115 Land Food and Water for a Sustainable Future (Lecturer)

Publications

A full list of publications is available from Assoc. Professor Allen's WARP research report

Career summary
1998-present Lecturer in Entomology, University of Tasmania
1992-97
 ARC Research Fellow, Dept. Zoology, Uni. of Western Australia
1990-91 Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. Entomology, Uni. of California, Riverside, USA
Research Interests

My main interests centre on insect behaviour from its evolution to its application in pest management. My evolutionary research focuses on developmental and reproductive strategies in relation to fitness, whereas my pest management research focuses on reducing insecticide usage by enhancing the efficacy of other control methods, especially biological control and the use of pheromones and kairomones.

Particular areas of research include:

  1. The behaviour and chemical ecology of host/mate location/choice and oviposition.
  2. Behavioural interactions between insect natural enemies (esp. parasitoids) and their hosts.
  3. The reproductive, foraging and feeding ecology of insects.