![]() He is heavily involved in clinical and laboratory research and regularly is asked to present his expertise at hand surgery meetings.ĭr Schick has two public hospital VMO appointments including the prestigious Sydney Hospital Hand Surgery unit as well as Prince of Wales Hospital as an Orthopaedic Surgeon specialising in hand and wrist surgery. ![]() He is a passionate educator and his many teaching commitments include Anatomy teaching for surgical trainees at the University of New England and he is the course coordinator for the Microsurgery component of the Sydney University Masters of Surgery. rathmanae Menke and Evenhuis, with a Key to the Two Species in North America Proceedings, Entomological Society of Washington 96(3):580-581.Dr Schick also has a Post Graduate Sports Medicine degree and is enthusiastic about returning patients to their sporting and work activities as soon as possible after injury or surgery. Dilyta subclavata Forster (Hymenoptera: Charipidae) Found in North America and New Records for D. Environmental Issues Associated with Enhancing the Impact of Biological Control Agents: A Student Debate. Obituary: Robert Judson Lyon, 1918-2000 Proceedings, Entomological Society of Washington 104(1):245-246. Cynipid-induced Galls and California Oaks. Resh & Ring Cardé, eds., Encyclopedia of Insects, Academic Press, 1266 pp. Phylogeny, Historical biogeography, and macroevolution of host use among Diastrophus gallwasps (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae) Proceedings, Entomological Society of Washington, 105(3): 715-732. Fauna Iberica, Vol 16: Hymenoptera, Cynipidae by Jose Luis Nieves- Aldrey (book review) Proceedings, Entomological Society of Washington, 105(4): 1087. Miocene Oak Galls from Western North America, Jourbal of Paleontology, 81(3): 568-580. KQED Deep Look series – What Gall! The crazy cribs of parasitic wasps Selected PublicationsĮrwin DM & KN Schick. This photo shows me sweeping tropical grasses, searching for emarginines. However my current research projects have involved emarginine figitids, which we suspect are tropical and myrmecophilous, although no one has ever seen one alive. My initial work has been on charipine Figitidae (hyperparasitoiods of aphids), eucoiline Figitidae (fly parasitoids) and Liopteridae (beetle parasitoids). The Figitidae are all koinobiont endoparasitoids, keeping their hosts alive through many instars. A few years before that I was a scientific advisor for jumping galls (Neuroterus saltatorius) in Sir David Attenborough’s Life in the Undergrowth film series. I recently had the pleasure of working with Ron Russo editing his 2007 Field Guide to Plant Galls of California and Other Western States. I spend weekends hiking through oak woodlands collecting galls and my kitchen is filled with gall rearing containers. I am currently working on describing a group of Cynipini and I hope to learn more about their biology (and alternating generations) as well as their phylogenetic relationships. Moreover, most of the oak galling cynipids (Cynipini) have alternating generations which form two very different kinds of galls, yet in California we have matched up only a few of our Cynipini generations. Yet, anyone familiar with plant galls in California will recognize galls of many undescribed cynipid species. Half the species are gall-inducers (family Cynipidae) and the other half are parasitoids on maggots and other larvae (Families Ibaliidae, Liopteridae and Figitidae).Ĭynipidae gall-inducers are fascinating in that they are very specialized to their organ of the host plant. Research InterestsĬynipoidea are all parasitic Hymenoptera so these tiny wasps cannot sting. In my spare time I volunteer at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco. Each semester I am assigned a different biology course, new text and new prep, so I never have time to be bored and I am constantly learning. ![]() I have also been fortunate in being able to work as an adjunct instructor of biology at San Joaquin Delta Community College and some semesters as a visiting professor of biology at the University of the Pacific, both in Stockton, where I reside. I love working in a world-class research collection and having all the campus resources (especially the library). I was very lucky to be hired part-time at the Essig Museum of Entomology within a few months of completing my doctorate. My specialties are insect systematics and Cynipoidea (Hymenoptera). I have a bachelors degree from the University of California at Berkeley, and I received both masters and PhD degrees in Entomology from the University of California at Davis. ![]()
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