Frederic Beaulieu, Ph.D. Research Scientist

Contact details
Telephone: 613-759-1789
Fax: 613-759-1927
E-mail: frederic.beaulieu@agr.gc.ca

• Overview
• Current Research Projects
• Expertise
• Affiliations
• Recent Presentations
• Publications
• Education
• Professional Experience

Overview

• I am carrying research on the systematics and ecology of plant-associated mites, particularly spider mites (Tetranychidae). I also have studied the taxonomy and ecology of predatory mites (Mesostigmata), especially from canopy and soil habitats.

Projects

• Revision of canadian Tetranychus (Prostigmata: Tetranychidae)
• Review of Gaeolaelaps (Mesostigmata: Laelapidae)

Expertise

• Taxonomy of spider mites (Tetranychidae)
• Taxonomy of mesostigmatic mites

Affiliations

Visiting Instructor, Acarology Summer Program, Ohio State University

Member, Acarological Society of America

Member, Entomological Society of Canada

Member, Entomological Society of Quebec

2006: Co-organizer, Symposium on Canopy Acari: Diversity, Biogeography, Ecological Processes, International Congress of Acarology, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

2004: Co-organizer, Symposium on Mite Diversity in Ecological Landscapes, International Congress of Entomology, Brisbane, Australia.

Recent Presentations

• Beaulieu F, Walter DE, Proctor HC, Kitching RL. November 2008. Soil mites above ground: Would the real canopy specialists please stand up? Entomological Society of America meeting, Acarological Society of America Meeting Section, Reno, Nevada, USA.

Publications

• Twelve peer-reviewed publications on the taxonomy, diversity and ecology of predatory mites (Mesostigmata), plant mites, and flies (Diptera). To see a list of these along with pdf files of some, click here.

Education

• Ph.D. (Entomology) 2005 - University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
• M.Sc. (Entomology) 2001 - McGill University, Montreal, Canada
• B.Sc. (Biology) l998 - Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada (third year at the Université Claude-Bernard, Lyon, France)

Professional Experience

• 2008- Visiting Instructor, Acarology Summer Program, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio.
• 2008- Assistant Editor, Bulletin of the Entomological Society of Canada.
• 2006- Research Scientist, Research Branch, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa.

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