Edwin Lewis

• Biological control of crop pests
• Behavior and ecology of nematodes and insects
• Impact of agricultural practices on pest and beneficial organisms
• Behavioral ecology of parasites

• Shapiro-Ilan, D. and E.E. Lewis. 2024. Entomopathogenic Nematodes as Biological Control Agents. CABI Publishing, New York, NY and Oxon, UK.
• Lewis, E.E. Stevens, G., Hiltpold, I, Shapiro-Ilan, D. 2024. Behavioral ecology of entomopathogenic nematodes. In: Entomopathogenic Nematodes as Biological Control Agents. (Shapiro-Ilan, I and E.E. Lewis, eds). pp. 112-124. CABI.
• Stevens, G.N., M. Usman, S. Gulzar, C. Stevens, E. Pimentel, H. Erdogan, P. Schliekelman, F. Kaplan, H. Alborn, W. Wakil, D. Shapiro-Ilan, E.E Lewis. 2024. Group movement in entomopathogenic nematodes: Aggregation levels vary based on context. Journal of Nematology. DOI: 10.2478/jofnem-2024-0002
• Slusher, E.K., Lewis, E.E., Stevens, G., Shapiro-Ilan, D.I. 2024. Movers and shakers: Do nematodes that move more invade more? Journal of Invertebrate Pathology. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jip.2024.108060
• Coles, T., A. Briggs, M.G. Hambly, N. Cespedes, A. Fellows, H. Kaylor, A. Adams, Van Susteren, G., Bentil, R. Robert, M., Riffell, J. Lewis, E.E., Luckhart, S. 2023. Ingested histamine and serotonin interact to alter Anopheles stephensi feeding and flight behavior and infection with Plasmodium parasites. Frontiers in Physiology. DOI 10.3389/fphys.2023.1247316
• Ripa, L., G.N. Stevens, E.E. Lewis. 2023. Two-way plant-mediated interactions between a plant parasitic nematode and a foliar herbivore arthropod. Rhizosphere. 26: 100699.
• Stevens, G.N., H. Erdogan, E. Pimentel, J. Dotson, A. Stevens, D.I. Shapiro-Ilan, F. Kaplan, P. Schliekelman, E.E. Lewis. 2023. Group joining behaviours in the entomopathogenic nematode Steinernema glaseri. Biological Control.
• Erdogan, H., Stevens, G., Stevens, A., Shapiro-Ilan, D., Kaplan, F., Alborn, H., Lewis, E.E. 2021. Infected host responses across entomopathogenic nematode phylogeny. Journal of Nematology. DOI: 10.21307/jofnem-2021-105
• Erdogan, H., Cruzado-Gutierrez, K., Stevens, G., Shapiro-Ilan, D., Kaplan, F., Alborn, H., Lewis, E.E. 2021. Nematodes follow a leader. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 9. Article number 740351. DOI:10.3389/fevo.2021.740351

My research seeks to understand why and how organisms find, recognize, assess and exploit resources. We ask questions about how insects and nematodes make decisions about resource utilization and what the fitness outcomes of the decisions are. To answer these kinds of questions, we engage in studies of behavior, population ecology, community ecology and evolutionary biology with several groups of insects, nematodes and bacteria. There are also intentional links to more practical pursuits including biological control of crop pests, predicting the impact of crop management on pest and beneficial organisms and restoration ecology. I see no difference between what is traditionally called "basic" and "applied" research, thus the links of nearly all of the work in the laboratory to agricultural or environmental concerns is explicit.

• Editor-in-chief, Biological Control (published by Elsevier)
• PBESA Award for Excellence in Integrated Pest Management, 2016