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Jeremy Blaschke

Associate Professor of Biology

Education

  • Ph.D, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

  • M.S., University of Tennessee, Knoxville

  • B.S., Bryan College

Scholarship

Articles

Presentations

  • Community, autonomy, and the emergence of parasitism (2020)

    Origins 2020

  • Evidence for a recent transition into parasitism within four Phyla of marine animals (2020)

    Origins 2020

  • The diversity of parasitoid flies of Great Smoky Mountains National Park, USA (2019)

    Symposium: The All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory of Great Smoky Mountains Nat. Park, Annual meeting

  • Insect diversity and behavior (2019)

    Augustine School

  • Conservation and the beauty of animals in a post-Fall world (2019)

    Reclaiming Wisdom Beginning with Creation

  • Bugs, bacteria, and beauty (2019)

    Union University Research Seminar

  • Examining the antibiotic effects of hemolymph from immune challenged squash bugs (Anasa tristis) (2019)

    Association of the Southeastern Biologists

  • Life history notes of the rare ectoparasitoid wasp Rhopalosoma nearcticum (2019)

    Association of the Southeastern Biologists

  • Should all species be conserved? Thoughts on Trinitarian ecology and the problem of parasites. (2018)

    Baylor Symposium on Faith and Culture: Stewardship of Creation

  • Towards a Young-Earth model of parasite evolution (2018)

    Origins 2018

  • Piercer evolution in the bug-killing flies (2017)

    Union University Research Seminar

  • Phylogeny and diversification of world Tachinidae (Diptera) (2016)

    International Congress of Entomology

  • The evolution of reproductive strategies in tachinid parasitoids (Diptera: Tachinidae) (2016)

    International Congress of Entomology

  • Research update: pine bark beetle associated tree destruction in North America (2014)

    Origins 2014

  • Ancestral state reconstruction as a new method for identifying baramins of parasites and pathogens (2014)

    Origins 2014

  • Bug eaters: the natural history of phasiine parasitoids (2014)

    University of Guyana

  • Evolution and phylogeny of the parasitoid subfamily Phasiinae (Diptera: Tachinidae) (2014)

    Entomological Society of America, Southeastern Branch Meeting

  • Molecular systematics of the Phasiinae (Diptera: Tachinidae) (2014)

    Entomological Society of America, Southeastern Branch Meeting

  • Aquatic insect diversity and identification (2012)

    Grace Christian Academy HS

  • The Hebrew taxonomy of living things (2011)

    Origins 2011

Dissertations

Awards

  • Carla D. Sanderson Faculty of the Year Award (2021)

  • Newell Innovative Teaching Award (2021)

    From Proposal to Publication: Implementing a Graduate Level Resarch Experience in an Undergraduate Course

  • Biology Faculty Researcher of the Year (2019)

  • Biology Faculty Researcher of the Year (2017)

  • Newell Innovative Teaching Award (2017)

    Bugs, Books, and Beauty: Using Invertebrate Zoology to Train Future Community Scientists

  • Chancellor’s Distinguished Graduate Fellows Program Award (2013)

    University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN

  • National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, Honorable Mention (2013)

    National Science Foundation, Alexandria, VA