Ph.D. 2015 (2010 B.S. in Biology & Environmental Science, King’s College, PA)

Currently: Assistant Professor, Muskingum University, New Concord OH

URI-related publications

• Rafter, J.L., Vendettuoli, J., Gonda-King, L., Niesen, D., Seeram, N.P., Rigsby, C.M., and E.L. Preisser. 2017. Pretty picky for a generalist: impacts of toxicity and nutritional quality on mantid prey processing. Environmental Entomology 46(3): 626-632. [PDF]
• Rafter, J.L., Gonda-King, L., Niesen, D., Seeram, N.P., Rigsby, C.M., and E.L. Preisser. 2017. Impact of consuming ‘toxic’ monarch caterpillars on adult Chinese mantid mass gain and fecundity. Insects 8: 23. [PDF]
• Rafter, J.L., Agrawal, A.A., and E.L. Preisser. 2013. Chinese mantids gut toxic monarch caterpillars: avoidance of prey defense? Ecological Entomology 38(1): 76-82 [PDF] (Winner of Royal Entomological Society Award: Ecological Entomology Best Paper, 2012/2013)