James L. Nation

jln@mail.ifas.ufl.edu

(25% teaching, 75% research)

Education

• 1953 Entered Sunflower Junior College, Moorhead, MS
• 1955 A.A. degree from Sunflower Junior College
• 1957 B.S. degree from Mississippi State College (now Miss. State Univ.), Starkville, MS. Entomology major
• 1960 Ph. D. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. Entomology major with specialization in insect physiology/biochemistry.

Professional Experience

• 1972 ­ date…..Professor, Department of Entomology & Nematology, University of Florida, Gainesville.
• 1970 ­ 1972….Associate Professor, Department of Entomology & Nematology, University of Florida, Gainesville.
• 1965 ­ 1970….Associate Professor, Department of Biological Science and Zoology, University of Florida, Gainesville
• 1960 ­ 1965….Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Science and Zoology, University of Florida, Gainesville.
• 1969 ­ 1970….Sabbatical ­ Department of Apiculture, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
• Jan­Aug 1983…Sabbatical ­ Swiss Federal Research Station for Fruit­Growing, Viticulture and Horticulture, Wadenswil, Switzerland.
  
• Editor (1995 -date, with D.A. Jones and J.T. Romeo), Journal of Chemical Ecology.

Honors, Awards

• Cornell Junior Graduate Fellowship 1957­1958.
• Danforth Foundation Graduate Fellowship, 1957­1960.
• Recognized for Excellence in Teaching by Florida Entomological Society, 1985.
• Teacher of Year in Entomology & Nematology Department, 1989, 1994, 1996.

Grants

Principal Investigator on 19 different grants (during career) from NSF, US Forest Service, USDA, EPA, Florida Dept. of Citrus, International Atomic Energy Agency and Univ. of Florida.

Publications

Refereed Publications: > 65

Book Chapters: 4

Teaching Responsibilities

Graduate level course (ENY 6401) in Physiology of Insects each fall; AGG 2931 Global Envrionmental Issues in the undergraduate HONORS program each spring.

Selected and Recent Publications

• Nation, J.L. 1990. Biology of pheromone release by male Caribbean fruit fies, Anastrepha suspensa (Diptera: Tephritidae) J. Chem. Ecol. 16: 553-572.
  
• Phillips, T.W., J.L. Nation, R.C. Wilkinson, J.L. Foltz, H.D. Pierce, and A.C. Oehlschlager. 1990. Response specificity of Dendroctonus terebrans (Coleoptera: Scolytidae) to enantiomers of its sex pheromones. Ann. Entomol. Soc. Amer. 83: 251-257.
  
• Rocca, J.R., J. L. Nation, L. Strekowski, and M.A. Battiste. 1992. Comparison of volatiles emitted by male Caribbean and Mexican fruit flies. J. Chem. Ecol. 18: 223-244.
  
• Nation, J.L., M.T. Sanford, and K. Milne. 1992. Cuticular hydrocarbons from Varroa jacobsoni. Exp. & Appl. Acarol. 16: 331-344.
  
• Ponce, W.P., J.L. Nation, T.C. Emmel, B.J. Smittle, and P.E.A. Teal. 1993. Quantitative analysis of pheromone production in irradiated Caribbean fruit fly males, Anastrepha suspensa (Loew). J. Chem. Ecol. 19: 3045-3056.
  
• Nation, J.L., and A.K. Burditt, Jr. 1994. Irradiation, pp. 85- 102, in R.E. Paull and J.W. Armstrong (eds.). Insect Pests and Fresh Horticultural Products: Treatments and Responses. CAB International , Wallingford, UK.
  
• Nation, J.L., B.J. Smittle, and K. Milne. 1995. Radiation-induced changes in melanization and phenoloxidase in Caribbean fruit fly larvae (Diptera: Tephritidae) as the basis for a simple test of irradiation. Ann. Entomol. Soc. Amer. 88: 201-205.
  
• Nation, J.L., B.J. Smittle, K. Milne, and T.M. Dykstra. 1995. Influence of irradiation on development of Caribbean fruit fly (Diptera: Tephritidae) larvae. Ann. Entomol. Soc. Amer. 88: 348-352.
  
• De Moraes, R.R., J.L. Nation, and J.E. Maruniak. 1995. Organ culture of salivary glands of male Anastrepha suspensa (Diptera: Tephritidae). Florida Entomol. 78:467-473.
  
• Nation, J.L., J.L. Foltz, and T.W. Phillips. 1996. Chemical ecology of bark beetles in the Florida slash pine ecosystem, pp. 209-222, in D.Rosen, F.D. Bennett, and J.L. Capinera (eds.). Pest Management in the Subtropics -Integrated Pest Management - A Florida Perspective, Intercept Ltd., Andover, Hants, UK.
  

Revised January 2002