Speaker

Jeff Davis

Jeffrey A. Davis is an Associate Professor (research/teaching) in the Department of Entomology and is the Soybean Entomologist for the Louisiana State University Agricultural Research Center. His research focuses on integrated pest management of soybean, virus-vector interactions in soybean, sweetpotato and potato, and hemipteran feeding behavior. Dr. Davis grew up on a 100 head dairy farm in Berlin, Wisconsin. As an undergraduate, he attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he received a BS in Agronomy in 1996. He joined the Peace Corps in 1997 and served as a sustainable agriculture extension agent in Senegal, Africa from 1997 to 1999. In 2002, he became a graduate student at the University of Minnesota and received his MS in Entomology in 2004 and his PhD in Entomology in 2006. He joined the Department of Entomology at LSU in November 2007 and was promoted to Associate Professor in July 2013.