Speaker: Tongxian Liu

Time: 4pm, November 4, 2016

Venue: S3119

Introduction of Speaker:

Professor Dr. Tong-Xian Liu, known as "T.-X.” is the national distinguished professor of entomology at Northwest A&F University (Yangling, Shaanxi, China). He was elected as Fellow in 2014. Director, Key Laboratory of Applied Entomology, Dean of College of Plant Protection.

He is internationally recognized for his research in biological control and tritrophic interactions of host plants, whiteflies, and aphids, and their natural enemies. His main research focuses on biological control, biorational control, insect ecology, chemical ecology, tritrophic interactions of insect-plant-natural enemies, and low input and environmental friendly pest management. He also develops biorational and Integrated Pest Management approaches for managing insect pests of important crops, including field crops and vegetables.

He obtained his BS degree in plant protection from Shandong Agricultural University in China. He completed his MS degree in entomology from Virginia Tech at Blacksburg, Virginia in one and half years (1986-1987). Then, he obtained his PhD in entomology from the University of Georgia (Athens) in 1982. He spent four years as a post-doc at the University of Florida. He had joined Texas A&M in 1997 as an Assistant Professor working on vegetable IPM, and was then promoted to Associate Professor in 2001 and Full Professor in 2005, respectively.

He has been an ESA member and served in several capacities including the President of the International Branch in 2013. He has received numerous awards in various institutions and societies. Dr. Liu has been very active in teaching, supervising more than 50 doctoral students, 15 post-doctoral research associates, 30 MS students and 25 visiting scientists. He has acquired over $6.5 m and ￥13 m in grants and contracts from various funding agencies. Dr. Liu has published 275 refereed journal articles in various journals, including Annual Review of Entomology, a wide range of the ESA journals, Scientific Reports, Frontiers in Physiology, PLoS ONE, Planta, BioControl, Biological Control, Journal of Experimental Botany, and many others. He also edited 4 books, published more than 200 educational and extension papers, and has been invited to give over 100 speeches and seminars at many national and international institutions and conferences. His publications have been cited extensively, and his H-index is 35, i10-index is 123, and total citations are more than 4000 by October 2016.

College of Life Science
October 27, 2016