Research Collaboration

• Matt Buffington (Systematic Entomology Laboratory, USDA/ARS). Cynipoidea.
• Jaco Greeff (University of Pretoria). Evolution of fig wasps.
• Norm Johnson (Ohio State University). Platygastroidea NSF PBI project.
• Emmanuelle Jousselin (INRA, France). NICE fig project – ecology and evolution of the fig and fig wasp mutualism.
• Jose-Luis Nieves Aldrey (Spain). Cynipoidea, Ormyridae.
• Massimo Olmi (University of Tuscia, Italy). Inventory of parasitic wasps in South Africa with a view to using species in biocontrol programs.
• Jean-Yves Rasplus (INRA, France). NICE fig project – ecology and evolution of the fig and fig wasp mutualism.
• Graham Stone (University of Edinburgh). Cynipidae.
• Krystal Tolley (SANBI, Kirstenbosch Research Center). Evolution of the fig and fig wasp mutualism.

Current Students

• Jenny Underhill (MSc). Molecular phylogenetics and co-evolution of figs and fig wasps.
• Michael McLeish (Postdoctoral associate). Population genetics and evolution of figs and fig wasps.