Christopher K. Email & Phone Number

Morrisville, NC, US

• Designs, develops and executes laboratory and field experiments with a wide variety of urban and garden pests, and C. elegans nematodes.
• Manages insectary including insect availability, health monitoring, and dietary needs.
• Manages C. elegans nematode cultures including nematode availability, health monitoring, and dietary needs.
• Creation and management of Product Development databases utilizing Microsoft SharePoint. Includes maintaining the data integrity of all databases, creating and updating databases, and improvement of database features.
• Assists in the preparation of Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) exempt insecticidal products and registration packages.
• Develops, edits, and maintains all product development testing and insect rearing protocols.

• Creation and management of Product Development databases utilizing Microsoft SharePoint. Includes maintaining the data integrity of all databases, creating and updating databases as necessary, and improvement of.
• Responsible for all data analysis for the Director of Product Development. Includes extensive use of Analyse-it! statistical software package for Microsoft Excel and LdP Line software.
• Responsible for extensive review of all Product Development data.
• Creation, maintenance and presentation project plans from product inception to delivery. Requires interaction with all business units within the TyraTech multi-disciplinary team.
• Assists in the preparation of Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) exempt insecticidal products and registration packages.
• Assisted in the development of TyraTech Guerrilla Dust-4D including discovery, development, full characterization, label creation, collateral material creation, and registration document preparation.

• Developed and executed laboratory and field experiments.
• Utilized entomology skills in the location, identification, husbandry and testing of a variety of urban pest insects.
• Utilized nematology skills in the identification, culturing and testing, utilizing aseptic handling procedures, of pest nematode species.
• Skilled in the use of Biosafety Level II (BSLII) hoods, centrifuges, autoclaves and standard laboratory equipment.
• Collected, set up and maintained several ant colonies.

• Executed laboratory tests to quantify behavioral traits of Diaphorina citri (Asian citrus psyllid) and Diaprepes sp. (citrus root weevil) utilizing olfactometer and wind tunnel equipment.
• Executed field tests to quantify ecological and behavioral traits of D. citri to include population counting of nymphs and adults, associated eulophid wasp ectoparasitoid (Tamarixia radiata), associated.
• Responsible for setting up and monitoring incubation chambers used to facilitate breeding of D. citri in specialized egg deposition experiments.
• Assisted in colony maintenance of D. citri including cohorting and feeding.
• Assisted in colony maintenance of Diaprepes sp. colonies including egg and frass collection, feeding and diet preparation.

• Prepared deep lake sediment samples for charcoal fragment quantification to determine the surrounding ecosystem’s historic pyric activity.
• Assisted in field collection of deep lake sediment samples from high Andean lakes to quantify pollens, diatoms, and charcoal fragments to determine the surrounding ecosystem’s historic vegetation, microbiology and.

• Supervised and operated theatrical sound and lighting equipment.
• Coordinated management of assets and personnel during theater events.

• Managed arrangements for visiting conference groups to include room preparations, theater setup and on-call availability.
• Assessed, maintained and prepared existing campus facilities for all conference groups and for fall student enrollment.