Research interests:
Insect Microbial Ecology, Insect Transcriptomics, Medical Entomology
E-mail: mshelomi@ntu.edu.tw
Lab: Insect Microbiology Laboratory (MK Innovation HallRoom 611)
Telephone: +886 2 33665588
Current Projects:
-Digestive Enzymes and Microbial Symbionts in Insect Herbivores
Side Projects:
-Prospects of Black Soldier Fly for Bioconversion
-Agricultural economics of edible insects
-Bergmann's Rule and the drivers of Phasmatodea body size
Prospective students or visiting scientists with external funding sources are welcome! Prospective graduate students should ideally speak English and Chinese: English to speak with me, Chinese to deal with the University (since I can't help you there!).
Education:
2009 - 2014 Ph.D. University of California, Davis
2005 - 2009 B.A. Harvard University
Experience:
2017 - present Professor at National Taiwan University
2014 - 2016 Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Germany
2012 Visiting Scientist, Academia Sinica
2011 Visiting Scientist, National Institute for Agrobiological Sciences, Japan
Research Direction:
Insect-microbe interactions; insect physiology; cultural entomology
Publications:
- https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=TSIGUnYAAAAJ