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People

The EPIC Lab is based at the Enns Entomology Museum, University of Missouri. The lab was established in 2026 and is currently recruiting its first members.

Davide Dal PosPrincipal investigator

Davide Dal Pos, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor · Director, Enns Entomology Museum

Davide is an entomologist who works on parasitoid wasps, especially the Ichneumonidae. His research joins systematics, evolutionary morphology and comparative anatomy, anatomy ontologies and biodiversity informatics, with museum collections at the centre of it all.

Before Missouri he spent nearly eight years at the University of Central Florida as a Ph.D. student and postdoc. He runs the World Ichneumonidae Database and Syrphidae of Italy, and serves as an editor for ZooKeys, Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift and Biodiversity Data Journal.

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Lab members

The lab is recruiting graduate students and undergraduate researchers, and welcomes postdoctoral fellowship applicants. See the positions page for details.

Ph.D. studentsIndependent projects in one or more research areas.Details →M.S. studentsFocused projects based on specimens and data.Details →Undergraduate researchersImaging, digitization and research for credit.Details →Postdoctoral researchersFellowship proposals developed with the lab.Details →

Collaborators

81 collaborators worldwide

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