Jeremy C. Andersen

Research Assistant Professor

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Office: Room 307 Ag. Engineering

Website: www.jeremycandersen.com

I am a Research Assistant Professor interested in using molecular methods to inform the study invasive insects and weeds, more successfully implement biological control programs, and inform insect conservation efforts.

Primary Interests

Population Genomics, Biological Control, Insect Conservation

Current Projects

Genetics of hybridizing invasive winter moth and native Bruce spanworm populations; Biological control of Japanese Knotweed; Identification of fungal pathogens of Hemlock Woolly Adelgid; Conservation genetics of endangered fireflies and bumble bees; Machine Learning to rapidly identify invasive species

Courses Taught

  • NRC126 – Insects and Human Society
  • NRC397C – Insect Conservation
  • OEB617 – OEB Ecology Core Course

Education

2015 – PhD – University of California Berkeley – Environmental Science Policy and Management

2009 – MS – University of Massachusetts Amherst – Organismic and Evolutionary Biology

2006 – BS – University of Massachusetts Amherst – Biology

Publications

2020

Andersen JC, Davis MJ, Schick KS, Elkinton JS. In Press. Molecular placement of an outbreaking gall wasp, Zapatella davisae (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae), with comments on the phylogenetic arrangement of the Cynipidae. Journal of Entomological Science.

Andersen JC, Van Driesche RG, Crandall RS, Griffin BP, Elkinton JS, Soper AS. In Press. Successful biological control of the ambermarked birch leafminer, Profenusa thomsoni (Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae), in Anchorage, Alaska: status 15 years after release of Lathrolestes thomsoni (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae). Biological Control. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocontrol.2020.104449

Blackburn LM, Elkinton JS, Havill NP, Broadley HJ, Andersen JC, Liebhold A. 2020. Environmental niche models for a highly polyphagous and widespread forest herbivore in its native and invaded range. NeoBiota. 59: 1–20

de Kerdrel G, Andersen JC, Kennedy SR, Gillespie R, Krehenwinkel H. 2020. Rapid and cost-effective generation of single specimen multilocus barcoding data from whole arthropod communities by multiple levels of multiplexing. Scientific Reports. 10:78. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-54927-z

Griffin BP, Chandler JL, Andersen JC, Havill NP, Elkinton JS. In Press. The reliability of genitalia morphology to monitor the spread of the invasive winter moth, Operopthera brumata (Lepidoptera: Geometridae), in eastern North America. Environmental Entomology.

Havill NP, Griffin, BP, Andersen JC, Foottit RG, Justesen MJ, Caccone A, D’Amico V, Elkinton JS. In Press. Species delimitation and invasion history of the balsam woolly adelgid, Adelges (Dreyfusia) piceae (Hemiptera: Aphidoidea: Adelgidae), species complex. Systematic Entomology.

2019

Andersen JC, Camp CP, Davis MJ, Havill NP, Elkinton JS. 2019. Development of microsatellite markers for an outbreaking species of oak gall wasp, Zapatella davisae (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae), in the northeastern United States. Bulletin of Entomological Research. 109:510-517. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007485318000858

Andersen JC, Havill NP, Broadley HJ, Boettner GH, Caccone A, Elkinton JS. 2019. Widespread hybridization among native and invasive species of Operophtera moths (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) in Europe and North America. Biological Invasions. 21:3383–3394. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-019-02054-1

Andersen JC, Havill NP, Mannai Y, Ezzine O, Dhahri S, Lahbib Ben Jamâa M, Caccone A, Elkinton JS. 2019. Identification of winter moth, Operophtera brumata, last glacial maximum refugia in North Africa: implications for outbreaks in Tunisian oak forests. Ecology and Evolution. 9:13931-13941. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.5830

Andersen JC, Obyoski P, Davies N, Charlat S, Ewing C, Meyer C, Ying Lim J, Noriyuki S, Ramage T, Gillespie RG, Roderick GK. 2019. Categorization of species as likely native or likely non-native using DNA barcodes without a complete reference library. Ecological Applications. 29:e01914. https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.1914

Broadley H, Kula RR, Boettner GH, Andersen JC, Griffin BP, Elkinton JS. 2019. Recruitment of native parasitic wasps to populations of the invasive winter moth in the Northeastern United States. Biological Invasions. 9:2871–2890. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-019-02019-4

Davis MJ, Andersen JC, Elkinton JS. 2019. Identification of the parasitoid community associated with an outbreaking gall wasp, Zapatella davisae, and their relative abundances in New England and Long Island, New York. Ecology and Evolution 9:19-25. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.4543

Donahue KL, Broadley HJ, Elkinton JS, Burand JP, Huang W-F, Andersen JC. 2019. Using the SSU and ribosomal DNA operon arrangement to identify two Microsporidia infecting Bruce spanworm, Operophtera bruceata (Lepidoptera: Geometridae). Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology. 66:424-434. https://doi.org/10.1111/jeu.12685

Smith-Freedman CJ, Andersen JC, Grifin BP, Schick K, Elkinton JS. 2019. Rise and fall of an oak gall wasp (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae) outbreak on Cape Cod, Martha’s Vineyard, and Nantucket. Environmental Entomology. 2:1277-1285. https://doi.org/10.1093/ee/nvz115

2018

Andersen JC, Mills NJ. 2018. Comparative genetics of invasive populations of walnut aphid, Chromaphis juglandicola, and its introduced natural enemy Trioxys pallidus in California. Ecology and Evolution 8:801-811. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.3667

2017

Andersen JC, Havill NP, Caccone A, Elkinton JS. 2017. Post-glacial recolonization shaped the genetic diversity of the winter moth (Operophtera brumata) in Europe. Ecology and Evolution 7:3312-3323. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.2860

Havill NP, Elkinton J, Andersen JC, Hagen SB, Broadley HJ, Boettner GJ, Caccone A. 2017. Asymmetric hybridization between non-native winter moth, Operophtera brumata (Lepidoptera: Geometridae), and native Bruce spanworm, O. bruceata, in the northeastern United States, assessed with novel microsatellites and SNPs. Bulletin of Entomological Research 107:241-250. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0007485316000857

2016

Andersen JC, Mills NJ. 2016. Geographic origins and post-introduction hybridization between strains of Trioxys pallidus introduced to western North America for the biological control of walnut and filbert aphids. Biological Control 103:218-229. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocontrol.2016.09.011

Andersen JC, Bourchier RS, Grevstad FS, Van Driesche R, Mills NJ. 2016. Development and verification of SNP arrays to monitor hybridization between two host-associated strains of knotweed psyllid, Aphalara itadori. Biological Control 93:9-55. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocontrol.2015.11.007

2015

Andersen JC, Gwiazdowski RA, Gdanetz K, Gruwell ME. 2015.  Armored scale insect endosymbiont diversity at the species level: genealogical patterns of Uzinura diaspidicola in the Chionaspis pinifoliae – Chionaspis heterophyllae species complex (Hemiptera: Coccoidea: Diaspididae). Bulletin of Entomological Research 105:110-120. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007485314000820

2014

Andersen JC, Mills NJ. 2014. iMSAT: a novel approach to the development of microsatellite loci using barcoded Illumina libraries. BMC Genomics 15:858. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2164-15-858

Andersen JC, Gwiazdowski RA, Gruwell ME. 2014. Molecular evolution of sexual and parthenogenetic lineages of the armored scale insect Aspidiotus nerii (Hemiptera: Diaspididae) and its primary bacterial endosymbiont, Uzinura diaspidicola. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 107:954-960. https://doi.org/10.1603/AN14058

2012

Andersen JC, Mills NJ. 2012. DNA extraction from museum specimens of parasitic hymenoptera.  PLoS One 7:e45549. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0045549

2011

Gwiazdowski RA, Vea IM, Andersen JC, Normark BB. 2011. Discovery of cryptic species among North American pine-feeding Chionaspis scale insects (Hemiptera: Diaspididae).  Biological Journal of the Linnaean Society 104:47-62. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1095-8312.2011.01716.x

2010

Andersen JC, Wu J, Gruwell ME, Gwiazdowski R, Santana S, Feliciano NM, Morse GE, Normark BB.  2010.  A phylogenetic analysis of armored scale insects, based upon nuclear, mitochondrial, and endosymbiont gene sequences.  Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 57:992-1003. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2010.05.002

Andersen JC, Gruwell ME, Morse GE, Normark BB.  2010.  Cryptic diversity in the Aspidiotus nerii complex in Australia.  Annals of the Entomological Society of America 103:844-854. https://doi.org/10.1603/AN10060

Rugman-Jones PF, Andersen JC, Morse JG, Normark BB, Stouthamer R. 2010.  Molecular phylogenetic placement of the recently described scale insect Abgrallaspis aguacatae and several congeners (Hemiptera: Diaspididae).  Annals of the Entomological Society of America 103:30-38. https://doi.org/10.1093/aesa/103.1.30