Advances in the Biorational Control of Medical and Veterinary Pests

Edmund J. Norris, PhD, is Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Pesticide Toxicology Laboratory at Iowa State University. He received his PhD in both Entomology and Toxicology at Iowa State University under the supervision of Joel Coats, PhD, and Lyric Bartholomay, PhD. His research focuses on the development of new biorational pesticidal chemistries and technologies, with emphasis on the development of targeted strategies for the control of publichealth and veterinary pest arthropods.Joel R. Coats is Distinguished Professor of Entomology and Toxicology at Iowa State University. His insect toxicology research focuses on natural products as insecticides, insect repellents, and synergists. He has graduated 44 graduate students from his lab and currently has six PhD students. This is his 11th book published through ACS Books.Aaron D. Gross is Assistant Professor of Toxicology and Physiology at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He earned his doctoral degree fromIowa State University of Science and Technology under the supervision of Dr. Joel Coats and Dr. Michael Kimber. His postdoctoral research training was at the Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida, under the supervision of Dr. Jeffrey Bloomquist. His research interest includes the discovery mechanisms of action of naturally occurring and synthetic pesticides with the goal of controlling arthropods that are important vectors of human and animal health.John M. Clark is Professor of Environmental Toxicology & Chemistry in the Department of Veterinary & Animal Science at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and directs the Massachusetts Pesticide Analysis Laboratory for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Dr. Clark's research interests include pesticide modes of action (specializing on the pyrethroids), insecticide resistance mechanisms and management, and environmental fate and exposure assessment of pesticides. Heis currently the Editor-in-Chief of the scientific journalPesticide Biochemistry and Physiology.