CURRICULUM VITAE

Alexander H. Purcell
Division of Insect Biology, 201 Wellman
Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management
University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-3112
(510) 642-7285             e-mail: purcell@nature.berkeley.edu

Position: Professor of Entomology, Division of Insect Biology, Dept. of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-3112


Education:
 Ph.D., June, 1974      University of California, Davis
Honors: Sigma Chi      Department of Entomology
B.S., June, 1964       Distinguished graduate U. S. Air Force Academy, Colorado

Employment:
1994 to 1995      Head, Division of Environmental Biology, ESPM

Department of Entomological Sciences, U. C. Berkeley
1993 to 1994           Chair
1990 to 1994           Vice-Chair
1988 to present       Professor
1981 to 1988           Associate Prof.
1974 to 1981           Assistant Prof.

1971 to 1974      Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Entomology, University of California, Davis, CA

1970 to 1971      Student, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA

1964 to 1970      Officer (Captain, pilot), United States Air Force

Research Interests: Insect vectors of bacteria and phytoplasmas that cause plant diseases. The roles of insects and insect vectors in bacterial ecology. Symbiosis of bacteria with plant sap-feeding insects. Epidemiology of insect-bacteria-plant interactions.

Current Research Projects : Epidemiology of diseases caused by xylem-inhabiting bacteria (Pierce's disease of grapes, almond leaf scorch, alfalfa dwarf, oleander leaf scorch) and phytoplasmas (X-disease, aster yellows), transmission mechanisms and epidemiology of prokaryotic parasites of leafhoppers and plants; insect-xylem endophyte interactions

Teaching: General Entomology, Insects and Human Society, Seminar in Applied Entomology, Field Entomology


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