Biopesticides: State of the Art and Future Opportunities

Aaron D. Gross (Ph.D., Iowa State University) is currently a Postdoctoral Associate at the Emerging Pathogens Institute at the University of Florida. He graduated from Iowa State University of Science and Technology, Ames, IA, in 2014 with a Ph.D. in Toxicology, and minors in Entomology and Neuroscience. His main research interests are in agrochemical discovery, and in understanding the biochemical and neurophysiological mechanism of action of both naturallyoccurring and synthetic pesticides.Joel R. Coats (Ph.D., University of Illinois) is the Charles F. Curtiss Distinguished Professor of Entomology and Toxicology in the Department of Entomology at Iowa State University of Science and Technology, Ames, IA. His research focuses on natural products as insecticides and repellents, as well as the environmental fate and effect of agrochemicals. He has mentored a total of 44 graduate students who received advanced degrees in his laboratory. He has published 144 refereed journal articles,42 book chapters, 7 review articles, and 11 books; he also holds 9 patents. He is a fellow of the AAAS, the ESA, and the AGRO Division of ACS.Stephen O. Duke (Ph.D., Duke University) is Research Leader of the Natural Products Utilization Research Unit of the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Oxford, Mississippi. Most of his research is on discovery and development of natural product-based pest management products. He is Chair of the Agrochemicals Division (AGRO) of ACS and has authored or co-authored more than 400 journal articles and book chapters, edited or co-edited 7 previous books, and co-authored one book. His honors includeFellow of AAAS, AGRO, and the Weed Science Society of America and an Honorary Doctorate from the University of the Basque Country (Bilbao, Spain). He is Editor-in-Chief of Pest Management Science.James N. Seiber (Ph.D., Chemistry, Utah State University) is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, and Professor Emeritus of Environmental Toxicology at the University of California, Davis. He is past Director of the Western Regional Research Center, USDA Agricultural Research Service in Albany, CA, and past Director of the Center for Environmental Sciences and Engineering at the University of Nevada, Reno. He and his students have published over 300 researchmanuscripts, books, and book chapters, primarily in the areas of pesticide and environmental contaminant transport and fate, analytical method development, and chemical ecology and food safety. He is past Chair of the ACS Division of Agrochemicals, and is a Fellow of ACS andAAAS.