Prof. Tom Miller
Thomas is Professor of Entomology at University of California, Riverside, where he teaches insect physiology, insect toxicology and first year biology. He gained his PhD in entomology at UC Riverside in 1967. This was followed by a year as Research Associate at the University of Illinois and a year as a NATO Postdoctoral Fellow at Glasgow University. He then returned to UC Riverside in 1969 and has taught and researched there since. His research interests have included: the structure and function of the insect circulatory system; the mode of action of insecticides; insect neuromuscular physiology; physiology, toxicology and behaviour of pink bollworm in cotton fields; transgenic insects; applied symbiosis for crop protection; and biopesticides for crop protection. In 2003 he was awarded the Gregor J Mendel Medal for Research in Biological Sciences by the Czech Academy of Sciences, and in 2005 he was invited to give the Verrall Lecture at the Royal Entomological Society. In the summer of 2010 he will take up a one-year appointment as Jefferson Science Fellow at the US State Department.