D. Catalina Fernández

I joined the lab in the fall of 2016 to work on the ecology of pepper weevil co-supervised by Dr. Roselyne Labbé from Agri-Food Canada. My dissertation combines greenhouse experiments and molecular techniques to improve pepper weevil understanding & management. I spend my time playing with plants, insects & once in a while I wear a white coat, so I look like an actual scientist!

My interests include insect ecology, plant-insect interactions, parasitoids, trophic webs & recently I've been itchy about insect-microbial interactions!