Aram Mikaelyan
Bio
As part of the urban entomology program at NCSU, Aram Mikaelyan focuses on basic and applied research on wood-destroying pests. His lab is interested in the evolution of symbiotic digestion in wood-feeding insects, and works on developing technologies for the biological control of wood-destroying pests.
We specialize in insect gut microbiomes, and would like to know how microbial communities influence health and development in insects, particularly in wood-destroying pests. On the basic side, we are broadly interested in the mechanisms that contribute to ecological and evolutionary patterns in insect gut microbiomes. On the applied side, we leverage our understanding of insect-microbe interactions to control wood-destroying and other structural pests; we do this through the isolation and optimization of entomopathogens, and through the disruption of insect-microbe mutualisms.
Publications
- Chewing through challenges: Exploring the evolutionary pathways to wood-feeding in insects , BIOESSAYS (2024)
- Fight, retreat, repeat: The male-male agonistic behavior in the wood-feeding cockroach, Panesthia angustipennis spadica (Dictyoptera: Blattodea: Blaberidae) , ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION (2024)
- Lethal Disruption of the Symbiotic Gut Community in Eastern Subterranean Termite Caused by Boric Acid , (2024)
- Lethal disruption of the bacterial gut community in Eastern subterranean termite caused by boric acid , JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY (2024)
- Scaling the wall: overcoming barriers to STEM knowledge mobilization , FRONTIERS IN COMMUNICATION (2024)
- The Genome of Arsenophonus sp. and Its Potential Contribution in the Corn Planthopper, Peregrinus maidis , INSECTS (2024)
- Viability and virulence of freeze-dried Beauveria bassiana, Metarhizium acridum, and Hirsutella thompsonii isolates under non-refrigerated conditions in Ghana , BIOCONTROL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (2024)
- A call to termitologists: it is time to abandon the use of "lower" and "higher" termites , INSECTES SOCIAUX (2023)
- Chewing Through Challenges: Exploring the Evolutionary Pathways to Wood-Feeding in Insects , (2023)
- Reevaluating Symbiotic Digestion in Cockroaches: Unveiling the Hindgut's Contribution to Digestion in Wood-Feeding Panesthiinae (Blaberidae) , INSECTS (2023)