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Plant Pest Diagnostics Center

Dr. Peter H. Kerr Senior Insect Biosystematist & Co-Curator of CSCA Plant Pest Diagnostics Branch, California Department of Food & Agriculture 3294 Meadowview Road, Sacramento, CA 95832-1448, U.S.A. 916-262-1148 office, 916-262-1190 fax, pkerr@cdfa.ca.gov Quick Links Sciaroidea Research Revision of the genus Novakia Rhagionid Research

 

Curriculum vitae

A. Professional preparation:

• Postdoctoral Fellow University of California, Davis Joint UCD/CDFA (2004)

• Doctor of Philosophy (Entomology) - University of Maryland, (2004)
• Bachelor of Science with Honors (Zoology/Botany) - University of California, Santa Cruz, (1993)
• UC Education Abroad (full year; Biology) Universidad de Costa Rica, San Jose (1992)

• 2007-present, Co-Curator of the CSCA: California Department of Food & Agriculture, Sacramento
• 2004-present, Associate Insect Biosystematist: California Department of Food & Agriculture, Sacramento
  
• 2003-2004, Postdoctoral Research Fellow: Department of Entomology, University of California, Davis & Plant Pest Diagnostics Branch, California Department of Food & Agriculture, Sacramento

Recent Publications:

1. Kerr, P.H. (2004) Revision of the Genera of the Rhagionidae of the World (Diptera: Brachycera). Ph.D. Thesis. University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)
2. Kerr, P. H. (2004) A new species of Schizella Bezzi, with notes on Rhagionidae sensu Stuckenberg (Diptera, Brachycera). Studia dipterologica 10(2)2003: 453-457.
3. Winterton, S.L. and Kerr, P.H. (2006) A new species of Alloxytropus Bezzi (Diptera: Scenopinidae: Proratinae) from Israel. Zootaxa 1155: 41-50. [PDF available]
4. Kerr, P.H. (2007) Revision of the Holarctic genus Novakia Strobl (Diptera: Mycetophilidae). Zootaxa 2554: 27-40. [abstract]
5. Kerr, P.H. (2008) Fungus gnats (Diptera: Mycetophilidae and others). Pp 1551-1554, in Capinera, J.L. (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Entomology, 2nd Edition. Springer.
   
6. Kerr, P.H. and Winterton, S.L. (2008) Do parasitic flies attack mites? Evidence in Baltic amber. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 93:9-13.
   
7. Kerr, P.H. (in press) Rhagionidae. in Manual of the Diptera of Central America. B.V. Brown and M. Zumbado, eds.

Additional activities:

• 2007-present. Subject editor, minor orders. Zootaxa.
• 2005-present. Subject editor, molecular systematics. Pan-Pacific Entomologist.