University of Georgia
Multi-modal signaling between plants and insects, evolution and mechanism of inter-species interactions. Techniques include insect behavior, chemical ecology, and phylogenetics.
Vector mosquito biology, malaria transmission, and vector/pathogen interactions. Novel interventions for malaria elimination.
Meiotic chromosome biology using Drosophila as a model system.
Dr Peach’s research interests are in the field of vector ecology, with a focus on behavioral and sensory ecology. He is primarily focused on how arthropod vectors, such as mosquitoes, find and interact with resources such as the hosts they bite, the flowers they nectar-feed from (and pollinate) or the breeding sites they use, and the implications of this information for mosquito management and pathogen transmission as well as understanding species and disease distributions..
Integrating physiology, genomics, evolution, and microbial symbiosis to understand the biology of insect vectors of disease.
Behavioral and evolutionary genetics and epigenetics of social insects.
Functional and evolutionary genomics of microbial associations with insects; virology, symbiosis, immunity
Molecular and evolutionary biology of insect parasites; virology, immunology, symbiont evolution, reproduction.
Phylogenetics and Evolution of Fireflies (Coleoptera, Lampyridae), Signal evolution, Science communication.
