Dr. Doris Lagos-Kutz

Assistant Research Scientist

Illinois Natural History Survey, Prairie Research Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

1816 South Oak Street
Champaign, IL 61820

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About

Doris Lagos-Kutz joined INHS on November 16, 2024, as a Visiting Research Scientist. She did her undergraduate work at Universidad Agraria La Molina in Perú in agronomy, then spent three years (2001-2004) working as an intern with John Shaw and David Voegtlin at the Illinois Natural History Survey assisting in field work and receiving training in aphids’ taxonomy. She received her Master's and Ph.D. at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in entomology in 2007 and 2013 respectively. She studied the taxonomy and systematics of the genus Aphis (Hemiptera: Aphididae) in the USA Midwest. She did her postdoc at USDA-ARS in Urbana, Illinois studying host plant resistance in soybeans against soybean aphids, brown marmorated stink bugs and soybean thrips, vector of soybean vein necrosis virus, and managing the USA Midwest suction trap network for insect monitoring, before joining INHS.