Education

• B.S. in agriculture, Korea University, Seoul, Korea 2002

• M.S. University of California, Riverside 2005

Research Focus

Urban entomology, exploring and developing novel urban pest management strategy by exploiting innate / learned behaviors of pestiferous insects, Argentine ant (Linepithema humile) behavior, insect behavior, Inter-specific Interaction, chemical ecology

Major Professor:

Michael Rust

Selected Publications

• Rust, M. K., Choe, D. H. (2006) Behavioral interactions between ants, pest, and parasitoids - Implications for biological control. Hoddle, M and Johnson, M. (eds.) Proceedings of the 5th California Conference on Biological Control, Riverside, CA., 107-111.

• Choe, D. H., Rust, M. K. (2006) Homopteran chemical signatures reduce aggression of tending ants. Chemoecology 16: 175-178.

• Choe, D. H., Rust, M. K. (2006) Agonistic behavior of Argentine ants to scales and scale parasitoids and their cuticular extracts. Sociobiology 48: 799-818.

• Choe, D. H., Rust, M. K. (2007) Use of plant resin by a bee assassin bug, Apiomerus flaviventris (Hemiptera: Reduviidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 100: 320-326.

• Choe, D. H., Rust, M. K. (2008) Horizontal transfer of insecticides in the laboratory colonies of the Argentine ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of Economic Entomology (in press).