Special interests: biology and behavior of insect pests of stored grain, especially cowpeas and bruchid beetles; vulnerable physiological and biochemical systems in insects, insect digestive physiology, genetic engineering of plants for insect resistance, and African agriculture;
           
Position:  Professor of Entomology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA;
Currently Principal Investigator of a Bean/Cowpea Collaborative Research Support Program (CRSP) Project, Principal Investigator of a USAID/Washington/IITA project dealing with biodiversity and biosafety as related to Bt cowpea; Co-Principal Investigator of a USDA National Research Initiative Grant studying the genomics and proteomics of the digestive system of Callosobruchus maculatus (cowpea bruchid); and Co-Chair of NGICA;

Cowpea is a crop with great potential to help feed Africa; no one person can make this happen, it takes a community of dreamers and doers.