Jeff Cumming, Ph.D.

Contact details

Dr. Jeffrey M. Cumming
Invertebrate Biodiversity
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
960 Carling Avenue
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1A 0C6
Telephone: 613-759-1834
Fax: 613-759-1927
E-mail: cummingjm@agr.gc.ca

Education

• Ph.D. (Entomology) 1986 - University of Alberta, Edmonton.
  
• B.Sc. (Honours Biology) 1977 - University of Guelph, Guelph.

Current Research Projects

• Various systematic studies on predaceous empidoid flies.

Expertise

• World fauna of predaceous empidoid flies.
  
• Phylogeny and higher classification of brachyceran Diptera.

Professional Activities

• present - 2005: Chair of the Curatorial Committee, Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids & Nematodes, Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa.
  
• present - 1986: Unit Curator of Diptera, Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids & Nematodes, Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa.
  
• present - 1999: Adjunct Professor, Department of Natural Resource Sciences, Macdonald Campus, McGill University, Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue.
  
• present - 1999: Research Associate, American Museum of Natural History, New York.
  
• present - 1999: Research Associate, Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad, Santo Domingo, Costa Rica.
  
• present - 2005: Associate Editor, Canadian Journal of Arthropod Identification.
  
• present - 2005: Associate Editor, Manual of Central American Diptera.
  
• present - 1988: Co-editor, The Fly Times newsletter.
  
• present - 1987: Chair, Grants Committee, CanaColl Foundation.
  
• present - 1995: Member, Grants Committee, Dipterology Fund.
  
• present – 1999: Member Lyman Entomological Museum Committee.
  
• present - 1988: Operator, North American Dipterists' Society.
  
• present - 2006: Organizer, Empidoidea Workshop, 6th International Congress of Dipterology, Fukuoka, Japan.
  
• 2006 – 2002: Director, Biological Survey Foundation.
  
• 2005 – 2002: Member, Scientific Committee of the Biological Survey of Canada (Terrestrial Arthropods).
  
• 2000: Co-organizer, Entomological Collections Network. Annual meeting, Montreal, Canada.
  
• 2000: Organizer, Symposium on Systematics and Phylogeny of Diptera, 21st International Congress of Entomology, Iguassu Falls, Brazil.
  
• 1999 - 1996: Graduate Student Advisor, Department of Natural Resource Sciences, Macdonald Campus, McGill University, Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue.
  
• 1998 - 1996: Associate Instructor, Department of Zoology, University of Toronto, Toronto.
  
• 1996: Coordinator, Diptera Taxonomic Working Group for the All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory, Guanacaste, Costa Rica.
  
• 1995: Member of Selection Committee for Federal Biosystematics Group Fellowship.
  
• 1994: Chair, Ethology Section, 3rd International Congress of Dipterology, University of Guelph, Guelph.
  
• 1994 - 1990: Member of Organizing Committee, Third International Congress of Dipterology, Guelph.
  
• 1993 - 1988: Graduate Student Advisor, Department of Biology, Carleton University, Ottawa.
  
• 1992: NSF Visiting Curator, Gressitt Center for Research in Entomology, Bishop Museum, Honolulu.
  
• 1989-86: Director, Entomological Society of Ontario.
  
• 1988: Chair and Section Organizer, Taxonomy , Zoogeography and Paleontology of Hymenoptera, 18th International Congress of Entomology, Vancouver.
  
  

Publications

• Over 90 research, miscellaneous, and electronic publications, mostly on the systematics, morphology, ecology and behaviour of predaceous empidoid flies. To see a list of these along with pdf files of some, click here.

Presentations

• To see a list of presentations, click here.

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