Dr. Elroy Charles

  • Senior Lecturer


  • Department of Agriculture
  • Turkeyen Campus

About Dr. Elroy Charles


Qualifications:

  • Diploma in Agriculture.
  • Bachelor of Science Degree in Agriculture.
  • Master of Science in Forest Biology.
  • Doctor of Philosophy in Insect Systematics, Imperial College London.

 

Research interests:

  • Ecology
  • Insect-plant interactions
  • Biodiversity and host-specificity
  • Bioinformatics
  • Systematics
  • Tropical forest canopies
  • Statistics
  • Arthropod conservation
  • Biogeography

Expert Areas

Entomology, Pest Management, Insect Diversity and Taxonomy

Herbivorous insects assemblages especially leaf beetles and whiteflies

Bio-statistics, Cladistic/Informatics and Research Methodology

Agro- and Forest Ecology

Qualifications

Qualification Specialization Institution Country Year
Diploma Agriculture Guyana School of Agriculture Guyana 1991
B.Sc. Agriculture University of Guyana Guyana 1995
M.Sc. Forest Biology University of Guyana Guyana 2000
Ph.D. Insect Systematics The Imperial College United Kingdom 2010

Courses Taught

Course Code Course Name
MPH6214 Advance Biostatistics
AGR3101 Agricultural Engineering
AGR3102 Agricultural Entomology
ABT5005 Bio-Inoculant Technology
FOR4204 Biodiversity and Conservation
ABT5001 Biosafety and Bioethics- GMO
AGR3204 Experimental Design and Research Methods in Biological Sciences.
FOR3103 Forest Protection
MPH6107 Foundation Biostatistics
ABT5006 Genomics for Diagnostics & Biodiversity Studies
CMS8001 Independent Study 1
CMS8002 Independent Study 2
CSC4101 Integrated Pest Management
FOR4100 Project
AGR4100 Project
BDS6002 Research Methods
FOR4101 Research Methods in Forestry
AGR2204 Statistical Methods & Experimental Designs
AGR5101A Statistics for Biological Research
AGR6001 Thesis

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