Dini Miller
Department of Entomology
Virginia Tech University
United States of America
Biography
Dini M. Miller is an Associate Professor at the Virginia Tech University, and the Urban Pest Management Specialist for the state of Virginia. Dr. Miller is an internationally recognized expert in the area of urban pest management, particularly bed bug biology, behavior and control. She has produced a number of bed bug action plans for the management of infestations in different environments, and published one of the first scientific papers evaluating modern bed bug response to insecticide treatments in the field. Dr. Miller’s extension program is designed to train pest management professionals, public health officials, apartment and hotel managers, and homeowners to control indoor pests while reducing their pesticide exposure risk. Likewise, her research program focuses on the evaluation and enhancement of reduced toxicity methods for structural pest control.
Research Interest
Urban Pest Management
Publications
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Adelman, Z. N., Kilcullen, K. A., Koganemaru, R., Anderson, M., Anderson, T. D., Miller, D. M. 2010. Deep sequencing of pyrethroid-resistant bed bugs reveals multiple mechanisms of resistance within a single population. PloS One. 6: e26228. doi. 10.1371/journal/prone0023228.
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Polanco, A., Miller, D. M., Brewster, C. C. 2011. Survivorship during starvation for Cimex lectularius L. Insects 2: 232-242
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Polanco, A., Brewster, C. C., Miller, D. M. 2011. Population growth potential of the bed bug Cimex lectularius L.: A life table analysis. Insects 2: 173-185
