News
2025
- January 2025: Welcome new lab member Bandana Shrestha!
2024
- December 2024: Lab holiday party
- November 2024: Our US HUD proposal was funded!
- November 2024: ESA Annual Meeting. Congratulations to Simona Principato and Ben Grady on both winning 2nd place in the ESA Student Competition for the President's Prize!
- November 2024: UK Pest Control Short Course
- October 2024: Congratulations to Zach DeVries on being awarded the 2024 PCT Crown Leadership Award [PCT]
- September 2024: UK Technical Directors' Retreat
- August 2024: Johnalyn Gordon's paper on do-it-yourself pest control has been published in the Journal of Economic Entomology: [Popular Science] [Gizmodo] [Yahoo.com] [Salon] [Earth] [PCT] [Entomology Today] [Lexington Herald-Leader] [Phys] [SciTechDaily] [The Mirage] [EurekAlert] [ScienMag] [Biogenineer.org] [ZME Science] [inkl]
- August 2024: Congratulations Simona Principato and Hannah Blevins on being selected to receive ESA-MUVE awards! Simona was selected as the recipient of this year’s Shripat Kamble Urban Entomology Graduate Student Award for Innovative Research, and Hannah was selected to receive a MUVE Student Recognition Award.
- August 2024: UK Department of Entomology Annual Retreat
- July 2024: Congratulations Daniela Jackson on completing the University of Kentucky Summer Undergraduate Research Experience in Environmental Health Sciences (SURES) Program.
- June 2024: Congratulations Ben Grady on your proposal to the Pest Management Foundation being funded!
- May 2024: National Conference on Urban Entomology (NCUE). Congratulations to several lab members on winning awards at the 2024 NCUE! Daniela Jackson won the BS Student Scholarship, Johnalyn Gordon won first place in the student competition, and Johnalyn Gordon, Ben Grady, and Simona Principato won student travel awards.
- May 2024: Congratulations Simona Principato, Olivia Katz, and Hannah Blevins on receiving scholarships from Pi Chi Omega.
- April 2024: Congratulations Johnalyn Gordon on successfully defending your dissertation! We're very proud of you and wish you the best of luck in Florida!
- April 2024: Lab party
- January 2024: Congratulations Simona Principato, Ben Grady, Olivia Katz, and Isabelle Lucero on receiving scholarships from the Pest Management Foundation.
- December 2023: Lab holiday party
- December 2023: Congratulations Johnalyn Gordon on receiving the Friends of IPM Doctoral Graduate Student Award, Southern IPM Center
- December 2023: Congratulations Isabelle Lucero on successfully defending your thesis! We're very proud of you and wish you the best of luck in your new position at JT Eaton!
- November 2023: ESA Annual Meeting. Zach ran a symposium on indoor pests and human health. And congratulations to Isabelle Lucero and Ben Grady on winning 1st and 2nd place (respectively) in the ESA Student Competition for the President's Prize!
- November 2023: UK Pest Control Short Course
- October 2023: Multiple interviews on the bed bug problems going on in Paris, France. [NY Times] [TIME] [CNN] [National Geographic] [Newsweek] [ABC Australia] [Multifamily Dive]
- October 2023: Congratulations to Daniela Jackson on being awarded a UK CAFE Undergraduate Research Award!
- September 2023: Simona's birthday
- August 2023: Excited to have wrapped up our 3rd annual Technical Directors' Retreat! If interested in joining us in 2024, please let me know!
- August 2023: Congratulations Johnalyn Gordon and Simona Principato on being selected to receive ESA-MUVE awards! Johnalyn was selected as the recipient of this year’s Shripat Kamble Urban Entomology Graduate Student Award for Innovative Research, and Simona was selected to receive a MUVE Student Travel Award for the 2023 Meeting.
- August 2023: Lab party
- July 2023: Bed bug treatment
- June 2023: Congratulations Simona Principato on being selected for a 2021 Pest Management Foundation Scholarship! [PCT]
- May 2023: Birthdays (Daniela, Olivia, Johnalyn)
- April 2023: Congratulations Simona Principato, Isabelle Lucero, and Ben Grady on being selected for 2023 Pi Chi Omega Scholarships! [Pi Chi Omega]
- February 2023: UK FCS Extension agent updates.
- December 2022: Lab holiday party
- November 2022: ESA Annual Meeting. Congratulations to Johnalyn Gordon and Isabelle Lucero on winning 1st and 2nd place (respectively) in the ESA Student Competition for the President's Prize!
- November 2022: UK Pest Control Short Course
- October 2022: UK Curiosity Fair
- October 2022: Sudip Gaire's bed bug histamine excretion paper has been published in the Journal of Medical Entomology! [UK CAFE News] [Entomology Today] [PCT] [Medical Daily]
- September 2022: Collecting brown recluse spiders
- August 2022: 2nd Annual UK Technical Directors' Retreat
- August 2022: Congratulations Sudip Gaire on accepting a position with Central Life Sciences! This is very well deserved, and we know you'll do great, but you will be surely missed.
- August 2022: Congratulations Henry Morgan (undergraduate in the DeVries Lab) on winning first place at the UK Dept. of Entomology Poster Session!
- April 2022: Sudip's Baby Shower
- December 2021: Sudip Gaire's bed bug anti-arrestment paper has been published in Scientific Reports! [UKNow] [PCT] [PMP] [Phys] [ABC-WTVQ] [ZME Science] [Heromag] [Kentucky Today] [Sci News] [Exterminator News] [Pest Control Daily News] [Exclusive Global News] [SciTech Daily] [Ohio Ag Connection] [Kentucky Ag Connection] [Elizabethtown News Enterprise] [Verve Times] [News Break] [Mirage News Australia] [24hTech] [FocusTechnica]
- November 2021: UK Pest Control Short Course [PCT]
- October 2021: UK Curiosity Fair
- August 2021: First annual University of Kentucky Technical Directors' Retreat
- August 2021: Congratulations Sudip Gaire on being selected for the 2021 ESA Medical, Urban and Veterinary Entomology Early Career Award! [MUVE-ECA]
- August 2021: Congratulations Johnalyn Gordon on being selected as the recipient of the 2021 ESA Larry Larson Graduate Student Award for Leadership in Applied Entomology [ESA-Larson] and for an ESA MUVE travel award!
- August 2021: Lab Party
- July 2021: Visit with Janis Reed (CSI)
- July 2021: Angela Sierras' birthday.
- June 2021: Pest control equipment training with Chris Jamison (Pelsis/B&G)
- June 2021: Lab/Department Volleyball game.
- March 2021: Congratulations Johnalyn Gordon on being selected for a 2021 Pi Chi Omega Scholarship! [Pi Chi Omega]
- March 2021: Congratulations Isabelle Lucero on being selected for a 2021-2022 College of Agriculture, Food and Environment (CAFE) Diversity Research & Teaching Fellowship!
- March 2021: Zach DeVries was selected for the 2020 Bobby Pass Grantsmanship Award, which is presented to the University of Kentucky College of Agriculture, Food and Environment (CAFE) faculty member receiving the most significant external award, or combination of awards, during the 2015-2020 academic years
- February 2021: B&G (Pelsis) donated a suite of pest control equipment to our program for training and educating technicians on how to safely and effectively apply pesticides.
- January 2021: Congratulations Johnalyn Gordon on being selected for a 2021 Pest Management Foundation Scholarship! [PCT]
- January 2021: Welcome new lab members: Simona Principato and Isabelle Lucero!
- December 2020: Our HUD proposal on sustainable cockroach management was selected for funding! This is an exciting project that will involve collaborations with Drs. Art Appel (Auburn University) and Jerrod Penn (LSU).
- November 2020: Our grant proposal to the Pest Management Foundation on bait efficacy was selected for funding! Congratulations Sudip who serves as a co-PI on this project!
- September 2020: Sudip's paper on the role of bed bug antenna in heat detection was accepted into the Journal of Economic Entomology!
- Summer 2020: Welcome new lab members: Angela Sierras, Sudip Gaire, and Johnalyn Gordon!
- December 2019. The DeVries Lab is officially open!
- October 2019. Exciting news from NIH! Zach DeVries' Early Independence Award Proposal on the distribution and health risks associated with bed bug produced histamine was selected for funding. [NCSU] [NIH]
- September 2019. Zach DeVries was interviewed by weather.com about the dangers and ineffectiveness of 'bug bombs'. [Pattrn]
- August 2019. Zach DeVries was featured on the NPMA podcast "BugBytes", where he discussed exciting new bed bug and cockroach research. [NPMA BugBytes]
- May 2019. Zach DeVries was interviewed by Gizmodo about "the life of an urban pest scientist". [Gizmodo]
- February 2019. Zach DeVries accepted a tenure-track assistant professor position in Urban Entomology at the University of Kentucky.
- January 2019. Our total release fogger (TRF, ‘Bug Bomb’) paper has been published! [NC State News] [Science] [New York Post] [Natural History Magazine] [WRAL] [ABC North Carolina (WTVD)] [North Carolina Public Radio] [C&E News] [FairWarning] [Yahoo News] [Fox News] [Gizmodo] [PCT Online] [Eurekalert] [Phys.org] [Science Daily] [Tech Explorist] [UPI] [The Siasat Daily] [Tech Times] [ZME Science] [Foreign Affairs] [Long Room] [Business Standard] [Beyond Pesticides] [Earth.com] [Brinkwire] [The Week] [e Science News] [News-Medical] [Eurasia Review] [Science Codex] [Devdiscourse] [Zee News] [ANI News] [Mental Floss] [the Doctor will see you now] [boingboing] [North Carolina Health News] [Tuscon Sentinel]
- October 2018. Zach DeVries was featured in the NC State Alumni Magazine.
- February 2018. Our bed bug histamine paper has been published! [NC State News] [Newsweek] [CBS North Carolina-WNCN] [Kentucky Public Radio WFPL 89.3] [EurekAlert] [PCT Online] [Gizmodo] [Quartz] [Science News] [Science Daily] [Phys.org] [Atlanta Journal Constitution] [ARS Technica] [Tech Times] [Medpage Today] [DoctorsLounge] [News-Medical] [WeekFacts] [Mental Floss] [Newsmax] [UPI] [Stuff] [The Sun] [Philly.com] [Outbreak News Radio] [WXPI Pittsburgh]
- September 2017. Zach DeVries was interviewed about his ongoing work to develop a bed bug bait (“Baits: An ‘Outside-the-Box’ Bed Bug Solution”). [PCT Online]
- March 2016. Zach DeVries was interviewed about his ongoing work to develop an artificial bait for bed bugs. [North Carolina Health News]
- March 2015. Zach DeVries was featured in the Technician (NCSU Newspaper). [The Technician]
- June 2013. Zach DeVries was interviewed about bed bug biology, management, and his current research. [AL.com] [Auburn University] [OA News]
