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| Research Assistant Professor Director, Industrial Affiliates Program 901 W State St West Lafayette , IN 47907 | |
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Office Phone: 494-6314 Office Number: SMTH 105E Email Address: gbuczkow@purdue.edu |
| BS | North Carolina State University 1995 |
| MS | North Carolina State University 2000 |
| PhD | North Carolina State University 2003 |
| Current research includes: | (1)Use of immunomarking techniques to study nutrient distribution and foraging behavior in ants and termites, (2) Spatial colony structure and foraging ecology in the black carpenter ant, Camponotus pennsylvanicus, (3) Genomic investigation of caste differentiation in termites, (4) Interspecific competition and nutritional ecology in the odorous house ant, Tapinoma sessile, (5) Sponsored (applied) research in the lab and field on termites and ants. |
Buczkowski, G., Wang, C., and Bennett, G. W. Immunomarking reveals food flow and feeding relationships in the eastern subterranean termite, Reticulitermes flavipes (Kollar). Environmental Entomology, in press. Sun W., Margam V., Sun L., Buczkowski G., Bennett G. W., Schemerhorn B., Muir W. M., and Pittendrigh B. R. 2006. Genome-wide analysis of phenobarbital-inducible genes in Drosophila melanogaster. Insect Molecular Biology, 15: 455–464. Buczkowski, G. and Bennett, G. W. 2006. Dispersed central-place foraging in the polydomous odorous house ant, Tapinoma sessile as revealed by a protein maker. Insectes Sociaux, 53: 282–290. Buczkowski, G. and Silverman, J. 2006. Geographic variation in Argentine ant aggression behaviour mediated by environmentally-derived nestmate recognition cues. Animal Behaviour, 69: 741–749. Buczkowski, G., Scharf M. E., Ratliff C. R., and Bennett, G. W. 2005. Efficacy of simulated barrier treatments against laboratory colonies of the Pharaoh ant, Monomorium pharaonis. Journal of Economic Entomology, 98: 485–492. Buczkowski, G., Suib S., Kumar R., and Silverman, J. 2005. Shared exogenous cues diminish intercolony aggression in the Argentine ant (Linepithema humile). Journal of Chemical Ecology, 31: 829–843. Buczkowski, G. and Silverman, J. 2005. Context-dependent nestmate discrimination and the effect of action thresholds on exogenous cue recognition in the Argentine ant. Animal Behaviour, 71: 327–335. Buczkowski, G., Vargo E. L., and Silverman, J. 2004. The diminutive supercolony: the Argentine ants of the southeastern Unites States. Molecular Ecology, 13: 2235–2242. Roulston, T. H., Buczkowski, G. and Silverman, J. 2003. Nestmate discrimination in ants: effect of bioassay on aggressive behavior. Insectes Sociaux, 50: 151–159. Buczkowski, G. and Schal, C. 2001. Method of insecticide delivery affects horizontal transfer of fipronil in the German cockroach, Blattella germanica (L.) (Dictyoptera: Blattellidae). Journal of Economic Entomology, 94: 680–685. Buczkowski, G. and Schal, C. 2001. Transfer of ingested insecticides among cockroaches: effects of active ingredient, bait formulation, and assay procedures. Journal of Economic Entomology, 94: 1229–1236. Buczkowski, G. and Schal, C. 2001. Emetophagy: fipronil-induced regurgitation of bait and its dissemination from German cockroach adults to nymphs. Pesticide Biochemistry and Physiology, 71: 147–155. |
