The focus of our research program is to develop sound insect management strategies for vegetables, with spin-offs for others crops.  This broad focus allows us the opportunity to work simultaneously in basic and applied areas.  Our program works with presently available strategies and helps incorporate them into pest management programs, and develops new strategies for the future.  Examples of presently available strategies range from: developing sampling and treatment guidelines for specific crops; understanding and modifying ecological factors that influence the risk of infestation; incorporating biological control into insect management strategies; studying mechanisms of host plant resistance and working with companies to develop resistant germplasm; evaluating presently registered insecticides and those under development for their effects on pests and non-target organisms; developing insecticide resistance management strategies; studying the movement of insects within and between crops in the agroecosystem.  Examples of developing new strategies include: working in a team to develop and deploy transgenic Bt vegetable crops; working with natural and engineered insect pathogens for control of vegetable pests; developing trap crop strategies for IPM.  At present, most of my teaching responsibilities involve guest lectures on biotechnology and integrated pest management and team teaching International Agriculture 402 and 602.  International activities are focused primarily in India, China, and Latin America.

1. A. M. Shelton and L. McCandless. Informing the Dialogue about Agricultural Biotechnology
2. Caldwell, B., E. Brown Rosen, E. Sideman, A. Shelton and C. Smart. Resource Guide for Organic Insect and Disease Management.  
3. Weeden, C. R., A. M. Shelton, and M. P. Hoffmann. Natural Enemies: A Guide to Biological Control Agents in North America.
4. Shelton, A. M. International Working Group for Diamondback Moth.
5. A. M. Shelton, W. T. Wilsey and C. R. Weeden. Pests of the Northeast.
6. A. M. Shelton and S. Fleisher. Biotech Vegetables for Insect and Insect-Vectored Disease Management

International Programs, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Cornell http://ip.cals.cornell.edu/

	Shelton lab group, 2004		Shelton lab group, 2005
	Shelton lab group, 2006		Shelton lab group, 2007

Research Assistant, University of California, Riverside, Department of Entomology - 1976-79. 

Assistant (1979-85), Associate (1985-93) and Full Professor (1993-present), Department of Entomology, Cornell University's New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva, NY.

Associate Director of Research and Associate Director of the Cornell Agricultural Experiment Station, Ithaca NY - 1993-2001.

Professor of International Agriculture and Associate Director of International Agriculture, 2002- present

Sabbatical Leave:
Institute for Plant Protection, Wageningen, The Netherlands - 3/86 - 9/86
Waite Institute, University of Adelaide, Australia- 1/02-5/02
University of California, Davis- 9/06- 12/06
Lincoln University, New Zealand- 1/07-4/07

Professional Societies:
Entomological Society of America
Society for Invertebrate Pathology
National Agricultural Biotechnology Committee (Chair in 2006-7)

Honors, Awards, Fellowships:
Cornell International Traveling Fellowship - 1983
Netherlands Ministry of Agriculture Fellowship - 1986
Cornell International Traveling Fellowship - 1989
Eastern Branch Ent. Soc. Am. Award for Excellence in Pest Management- 1995
Ent. Soc. Am. National Award for Excellence in Pest Management- 1995
China-US Scholar Exchange- 1996
New York State Award for Excellence in IPM- 1997
Cornell International Traveling Fellowship – 2002
CALS Professor of International Agriculture- 2002 to present
NYS Assoc. of County Ag Agents Award for Publication- 2003
National Award for Extension Publication Am. Soc. for Hort. Sci. -2004
Eastern Branch Ent. Soc. Am. Recognition Award for Research- 2005
Ent. Soc. of America, National Recognition Award for Research, 2005
Nat’l Assoc. Co. Ext. Agents, State Award and NE finalist for Publication, 2005
NYS - Excellence in Crop Production Publication Award, 2006
National Ag Ext Award for Publication, 2006

1. Heckel, D. G., L. J. Gahan, S. W. Baxter, J.-Z. Zhao, A. M. Shelton, F. Gould, B. E. Tabashnik.  2007.  The diversity of Bt resistance genes in Lepidoptera.  J. Invert. Path. 95:192-197.
2. Shelton, A. M., S. L. Hatch, J.-Z. Zhao, M. Chen, E. D. Earle and J. Cao.  2007.  Suppression of diamondback moth using Bt transgenic plants as a trap crop.  Crop Protection (in press).
3. Chen, M. and A. M. Shelton.  2007.  Impact of soil type, moisture and depth on swede midge pupation and emergence.  Environ. Ent. (in press)
4. Shelton, A. M. and F. R. Badenes-Perez.  2006.  Concept and applications of trap cropping in pest management.  Annu. Rev. Entomol. 51: 285-308.
5. Musser, F. R., J. P. Nyrop and A. M. Shelton.  2006.  Integrating biological and chemical controls in decision making:  European corn borer control in sweet corn as an example.  J. Econ. Entomol. 99:1538-1549.
6. Shelton, A. M., J.-Z Zhao, B. A. Nault, J. Plate, F. R. Musser and E. Larentzaki.  2006.  Patterns of insecticide resistance in onion thrips, Thrips tabaci, in onion fields in New York.  J. Econ. Entomol. 99:1798-1804.
7. Bates, S. L., J-Z. Zhao, R. T. Roush, and A. M. Shelton.  2005.  Insect resistance management in GM crops: past present and future.  Nature Biotech 23: 57-62
8. Zhao, J., J. Cao, H. C. Collins, S. L. Bates, R. T. Roush, E. D. Earle and A. M. Shelton.  2005.  Concurrent use of transgenic plants expressing a single and two Bt genes speeds insect adaptation to pyramided plants.  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 102: 8426-8430.
9. Shelton, A. M. 2004.  Risks and benefits of agricultural biotechnology.  pp 1-53  InTesting of genetically modified organisms in foods (F. Ahmed, ed).  Haworth Press.  Binghamton, NY.
10. Shelton, A. M., J.Z. Zhao and R.T. Roush.  2002.  Economic, ecological, food safety and social consequences of the deployment of Bt transgenic plants. Annu. Rev. Entomol 47:845-81.