BILLY A. KRIMMEL Academic Training Sc.B. Brown University, 2008 (Human Biology); Honors in Biology Current Position Ph.D. Candidate in Ecology at UC Davis (Jay Rosenheim’s laboratory), 2009-; dissertation title: Plant traits and plant-herbivore-omnivore interactions Work History Teacher’s Assistant, Animal Behavior, Brown University, 2006, 2007 Teacher’s Assistant, Behavioral Ecology, Brown University, 2008 Instructor, All Kids Are Scientists (AKA Science), Portland OR, 2008-2009 Teacher’s Assistant, Introduction to Ecology and Evolution, UC Davis, 2010, 2011 Guest Instructor, Freshman Entomology Seminar, UC Davis, 2011 Guest Lecturer, California Wildflowers, American River College, 2014 Honors and Awards Royce Society Fellow, Brown University, 2006-2008 Senior Prize in Biology, Brown University, 2008 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (GRF), 2011- 2014 Jastro Shields Fellowship, UC Davis, 2011 Robert van den Bosch Scholarship, University of California, 2012, 2013, 2014 UC Directors' Scholarship, UC Davis, 2013, 2014 Mildred Mathias Scholarship, University of California, 2013 Finalist, Lots of Opportunity Competition, Louisville, KY, 2014 UC Davis Business Development Fellow, 2014-2015 Publications Krimmel BA & Wheeler AG (in review) Hostplant stickiness disrupts novel ant-mealybug association. Arthropod-Plant Interactions Wheeler AG & Krimmel BA (in press) Mirid (Heteroptera) specialists of sticky plants: Adaptations, Interactions, and Ecological Implications. Annual Review of Entomology. Publication date: January 2015 Krimmel BA & Pearse IS (2014) Generalist and sticky plant specialist predators effectively suppress herbivores on a sticky plant. Arthropod-Plant Interactions 8: 403-410 Krimmel BA (2014) Why plant trichomes might be better than we think for predatory insects. Pest Management Science 70(11): 1666-1667 Wheeler AG & Krimmel BA (2014) Kleidocerys obovatus Van Duzee (Hemiptera: Lygaeidae: Ischnorhynchinae): New Distribution Records and Habits of an Apparent Seed Specialist on Cypress, Hesperocyparis spp. (Cupressaceae) Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 116 (2), 203-207 Krimmel BA, Pearse IS (2013) Sticky plant traps insects to enhance indirect defense. Ecology Letters (2) 219- 224. Highlighted in Nature 492:314-315; summarized in Kew Magazine, Pacific Horticulture, Big Science Little Summaries, F1000 Recommended Reading Wheeler AG Jr., Krimmel BA (2012). Banasa sordida (Uhler) (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae): Monterey cypress and Gowen cypress (Cupressus macrocarpa, C. goveniana; Cupressaceae) as host plants in coastal California. Proc. Entomol. Soc. Wash. 114: 263–68. Krimmel BA (2011). Omnivorous insects: evolution and ecology in natural and agricultural systems. Nature Education Knowledge 4(9):4. Rosenheim JA, Parsa S, Forbes AA, Krimmel WA, Law YH, Segoli M, Segoli M, Sivakoff FS, Zaviezo T, Gross K. 2011. Ecoinformatics for integrated pest management: expanding the applied insect ecologist’s tool-kit. J. Econ. Entomol. 104: 331–42. Forbes AA, Krimmel BA, 2010. Evolution is change in the inherited traits of a population through successive generations. Nature Education Knowledge 1(10): 6. 2 .