Bio

Ecologist David Andow began his role leading the Department of Applied Ecology in August 2023. He served as a Distinguished McKnight University Professor in the Department of Entomology at the University of Minnesota for 38 years. His research has focused on insect population and community ecology, ecological risk assessment of invasive species and genetically engineered organisms, insect resistance management, and science policy. He has had long-standing cooperative research with Embrapa in Brazil, where he was for three years before coming to NC State. He has given over 250 invited presentations, and published 214 peer-reviewed articles, 96 book chapters, seven consensus reports, and edited 13 books.

Education

Postdoctoral Associate, Cornell University; Postdoctoral Associate, National Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Tsukuba, Japan; PhD, Ecology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York; BSc, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, Biology, magna cum laude; NSF HS Program, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York.

Featured In

• David Andow – Ecological and evolutionary perspectives on genetic engineering, GES Colloquium, Feb. 6, 2024 (video, podcast)
• David Andow to Lead Applied Ecology, NC State CALS News, May 31, 2023

Awards

• Japanese American Citizens League Scholarship
• King/Chavez/Parks Visiting Professor, University of Michigan
• OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development) Fellow
• Best Publication in Landscape Ecology (International Association for Landscape Ecology)
• McMaster Fellow (Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organization, Australia)
• JSPS Fellow (Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science), twice
• Distinguished McKnight University Professor, University of Minnesota
• International delegate to the Brazilian Entomological Society
• Visiting Professor, Aarhus University, Flakkebjerg, Denmark
• Fellow, Bellagio Center of the Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio, Italy
• You Tube Your Entomology Winner, Instruction Category, “Invasive Species.” Entomological Society of America
• Fellow, Entomological Society of America, Washington, DC

Highlighted Publications

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• Krimsky, S., Andow, D.A., Doyle, J., Mellon, M., and C. Nader. 1987. Beyond the technical problems of intentional release. In J.W. Gillett (ed.), Prospects for Physical and Biological Containment of Genetically Engineered Organisms. Ecosystems Research Center, Cornell University, ERC-114, pp. 67-74.
• Andow, D.A., S.A. Levin, and M.A. Harwell. 1987. Evaluating environmental risks from biotechnology: Contributions of ecology. In J.R. Fowle III, (ed.), Application of Biotechnology: Environmental and Policy Issues (Westview: Boulder, CO), pp. 125-144.
• Alstad, D.N. and D.A. Andow. 1995. Managing the evolution of insect resistance to transgenic plants. Science 268: 1894-1896.
• Andow, D.A. and D.N. Alstad. 1998. The F2 screen for rare resistance alleles. Journal of Economic Entomology, 91: 572-578.
• Andow, D.A. and A.R. Ives. 2002. Monitoring and adaptive resistance management. Ecological Applications 12: 1378–1390.
  Ives, A.R. and D.A. Andow. 2002. Evolution of resistance to Bt crops: Directional selection in structured environments. Ecology Letters 5:792-801.
• Haygood, R., A.R. Ives, and D.A. Andow. 2003. Consequences of recurrent gene flow from crops to wild relatives. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B, 270: 1879-1886.
• Haygood, R., A. R. Ives and D. A. Andow. 2004. Population genetics of transgene containment. Ecology Letters 7: 213-220.
• Hilbeck, A. and D.A. Andow (eds). 2004. Environmental Risk Assessment of Transgenic Organisms: A Case Study of Bt Maize in Kenya. CABI: Wallingford, UK. xvii + 281 pp.
• Andow, D. A. (ed.) 2004. A growing concern: Protecting the food supply in an era of pharmaceutical and industrial crops. Union of Concerned Scientists, Boston, Massachusetts. vi + 125 pp.
• Hilbeck, A., D.A. Andow and E.M.G. Fontes (eds.). 2006. Environmental Risk Assessment of Genetically Modified Organisms: Methodologies for Assessing Bt Cotton in Brazil. CAB International, Wallingford, UK, xx + 373 pp.
• Andow, D.A and C. Zwahlen. 2006. Assessing environmental risks of transgenic plants. Ecology Letters 9: 196-214.
• Andow, D.A., A. Hilbeck and Nguyễn Văn Tuất (eds). 2008. Environmental Risk Assessment of Genetically Modified Organisms: Challenges and Opportunities with Bt Cotton in Viet Nam. CABI Publishing, Wallingford, UK, xx + 360 pp.
• Lövei, G. L., D. A. Andow and S. Arpaia. 2009. Transgenic insecticidal crops and natural enemies: a detailed review of laboratory studies. Environmental Entomology 38(2): 293-306.
• Andow, D. A., G. L. Lövei, and S. Arpaia. 2009. Cry toxins and proteinase inhibitors in transgenic plants do have non-zero effects on natural enemies in the laboratory: Rebuttal to Shelton et al., 2009. Environmental Entomology 38: 1528-1532.
• Andow, D. A. and G. L. Lövei. 2012. Cry toxins in transgenic plants have direct effects on natural enemies in the laboratory. Environmental Entomology 41(5): 1045-47. DOI: doi.org/10.1603/EN11238