| Leellen (Lee) Solter | ||||
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Email: lsolter@illinois.edu Title: Associate Professional Scientist, Insect Pathology
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| Activities | General insect pathology, biology and taxonomy of insect pathogenic microsporidia, host-parasite-pathogen relationships, particularly entomopathogenic microsporidia; developmental cycles and host specificity of entomopathogenic microsporidia, epizootiology of insect diseases, and biological control utilizing entomopathogens. |
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| Research |
Current research projects include studies of competition between microsporidian species for host tissues, taxonomy of microsporidia, molecular relationships between closely related microsporidia, physiological effects of microsporidia on insect hosts, host specificity of microsporidia, disease in beneficial insects (bumble bees, honey bees, predators of hemlock woolly adelgid) and microbial control of the gypsy moth and black vine weevil. Outreach activities include participation in the NCERA-125 Midwest Biological Control Institute and IOBC as a short course organizer and instructor in insect pathology. Educational responsibilities include teaching the Insect Pathology course in the Department of Entomology, University of Illinois. |
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| Message to Students |
Please email me for information regarding my research group. |
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| Professional affiliations |
Affiliate Associate Professor, Department of Entomology, School of Life Sciences Adjunct Professor, Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, College of Agriculture, Consumer and Environmental Sciences Illinois State Representative to S-1024, Development, Evaluation and Safety of Entomopathogens for Control of Arthropod Pests Illinois State Representative to NCERA-125 Biological Control of Arthropod Pests and Weeds |
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| Selected publications |
Cameron, S.A., Lozier,J.D., Strange,J.P., Koch, J.B., Cordes, N., Solter, L.F., Griswold, T.L. 2011. Recent widespread decline of some North American bumble bees: Current status and causal factors. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 108, 662-667. Solter, L.F., Pilarska, D.K., McManus, M.L., Zubrik, M., Patocka, J., Huang, W.-H., Novotny, J. 2010. Host specificity of microsporidia pathogenic to the gypsy moth, Lymantria dispar (L.): Field studies in Slovakia. J. Invertebr. Pathol. 105, 1-10. Lange, C. E., Johny S., Baker, M.D., Whitman, D.W., Solter, L.F. 2009. A new Encephalitozoon species (Microsporidia) isolated from the lubber grasshopper, Romalea microptera (Beauvois) (Orthoptera: Romaleidae). Journal of Parasitology 95(4): 976-86. Hoch, G., Solter, L., Schopf, A. 2009. Treatment of Lymantria dispar (Lepidoptera, Lymantriidae) host larvae with polydnavirus/venom of a braconid parasitoid increases spore production of entomopathogenic microsporidia. Biocontrol Science and Technology 19 (S1), 35-42. Solter, L.F. and Hajek, A.E. 2008. Control of gypsy moth, Lymantria dispar, in North America since 1878. In Use of Microbes for Control and Eradication of Invasive Arthropods [Hajek, A.E., OCallaghan, M. and Glare, T., Eds] Springer Publ. Co. pp. 181-212. |
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| Program Affiliates |
Wei-Fone Huang, Postdoctoral Research Scientist Gwyn Puckett, Graduate Student Andrew Nelson, Student Assistant |
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| Professional society involvement and activities |
President (2010-2012), Society for Invertebrate Pathology Memberships in the Society for Invertebrate Pathology, Society of Protozoology, Sigma Xi Associate Subject Editor, Environmental Entomology Editorial Board, Journal of Invertebrate Pathology |
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| Education | PhD, Entomology, University of Illinois, 1996 MA, Biology, Montclair State University, 1987 BS, Zoology, California State Polytechnic University, 1976 | |||
Illinois Natural History Survey - University of Illinois
INRS State Scientific Surveys
