Directory of Acarologists of the World 2002
Compiled by Valerie Behan-Pelletier 

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Vacante, V.
Istituto Entomologia Agraria, Universitŕ degli Studi di Catania, Via Valdisavoia, 5
Catania I-95-123
ITALY
Phone: 350 721
Fax: 356 752
E-mail:
URL:
Taxonomic group:
Specialization: Plant mites, esp. Tetranychidae

Vacyukova, T. T.
Instiute of Biology, Academy of Sciences
Yakutsk SFSR
RUSSIA
Phone:
Fax:
E-mail:
URL:
Taxonomic group:
Specialization: Feather mites

Valandiker, S. C.
Animal Disease Surveillance, Institute of Animal Health & Veterinary Biologicals
Karnataka, Bangalore 560 024
INDIA
Phone: 330 821 or 364 678
Fax:
E-mail:
URL:
Taxonomic group:
Specialization: Medical-veterinary acarology; house dust mites

Valdecasas, Antonio G.
Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, c/Jose Gutierrez Abascal, 2, 28006-Madrid, Spain
Madrid
Spain
Phone: 91 4 11 13 28
Fax: 91 5 64 50 78
E-mail: valdeca@mncn.csic.es
URL: http://www.mncn.csic.es/investigacion/bbe/valdecas.htm
Taxonomic group: Hydrachnellae (water mites)
Specialization: Systematics

Valentin, Gilles
Comité Interprofessionnel des Vin de Champagne, 5, Rue Henri Martin
Epernay F-51200
FRANCE
Phone: 544 720
Fax: 551 929
E-mail:
URL:
Taxonomic group:
Specialization: Vineyard mites

Van Asselt, Laurent
Dpt Entomology, Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences, 29 Vautier Street, 1000 Brussels, Belgium
Bruxelles
Belgium
Phone: 2.242.02.92
Fax:
E-mail: laurent.vanasselt@freebel.net
URL:
Taxonomic group: Astigmata: domestic mites
Specialization: Chemical communication

van de Vrie, Marinus
Perenlaan 2, 4484 Te Kortgene, The Netherlands
Te Kortgene
The Netherlands
Phone: 113-30 20 54
Fax: 113-30 12 24
E-mail: info@nmcp.nl
URL:
Taxonomic group: Tetranychidae, Phytoseiidae
Specialization: Host plant - spider mite - phytoseiid relations on fruit trees and ornamentals

van der Geest, Leo P.S.
Runmoolen 28, 1181 NZ Amstelveen, The Netherlands
Amstelveen
The Netherlands
Phone: 20 4823642
Fax:
E-mail: geest@science.uva.nl
URL: http://www.bio.uva.nl/onderzoek/PopBio/personnel/geest/pathogens.html
Taxonomic group: Tetranychidae and Phytoseiidae
Specialization: Pathology

VAN DER SCHYFF, Joylene
Noordbrug Road 24 - 26, Potchefstroom, 2520 South Africa
Potchefstroom
South Africa
Phone: 18-299 2373
Fax: 18-229 2370
E-mail: drkjvds@puknet.puk.ac.za
URL:
Taxonomic group: Bdellidae
Specialization: Systematics

VAN HEERDEN, Eurika
Department of Biology, P.O. Box 139, Medunsa, 0204 South Africa
Medunsa
South Africa
Phone: 12-521 5894
Fax: 12-521 4246
E-mail:
URL:
Taxonomic group:
Specialization:

van Huyssteen, Recht
Wittedrift, South Africa
Wittedrift
South Africa
Phone: 83 628 5699
Fax: 44 535 9453
E-mail: hdrvh@global.co.za
URL:
Taxonomic group:
Specialization:

van Nieukerken, Erik J.
Nationaal Natuurhistorisch Museum Naturalis, P.O. Box 9517, NL-2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands
Leiden
The Netherlands
Phone: 71-5687682
Fax: 71-5687666
E-mail: nieukerken@nnm.nl
URL:
Taxonomic group:
Specialization: Specialization curator of Acari coll. (mainly Oudemans, van der Hammen and Lukoschus)

Vanek, Jan
Institute of Landscape Ecology, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Na sádkách 702
Ceské Budejovice CS-370-05
Czech Republic
Phone: 40240
Fax: 40198
E-mail:
URL:
Taxonomic group:
Specialization: Oribatida: ecology & systematics

Vanninen, Irene
Agrifood Research Finland, Plant Production Research, Plant Protection, 31600 Jokioinen, Finland
Jokioinen
Finland
Phone: 3-41881
Fax: 3-4188
E-mail: Irene.Vanninen@mtt.fi
URL:
Taxonomic group: predatory mites
Specialization: Soil-living predatory mites as natural enemies of thrips

Vargas, Margarita
Lab. Acarología, IPN Prol. Carpio y Plan de Ayala, Col. Santo Tomás, 11340 México, D. F.
Santo Tómas
Mexico
Phone: 57-29-63-00 Ext. 62425
Fax:
E-mail:
URL:
Taxonomic group:
Specialization: mites associated wild mammals

Vargas, Mario
Department of Parasitology, CIET, School of Microbiology, University of Costa Rica, San Jose, Costa Rica
San Jose
Costa Rica
Phone: 207-4276
Fax: 225-2374
E-mail: abetovr@sol.racsa.co.cr
URL:
Taxonomic group: Ticks and Mites of Medical and Veterinary Importance
Specialization: Systematics

Vargas de Oliveira, José
Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, DEPA - FITOSSANIDADE, Rua Dom Manoel de Medeiros s/n, Dois Irmăos, Recife, PE, Brazil, 52171-900
Recife
Brazil
Phone: 081-3302-1214
Fax: 081-3302-1205
E-mail: vargasoliveira@uol.com.br
URL:
Taxonomic group: Acari
Specialization: Pest Management, chemical control

Varma, M. G.R.
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street
London England WC1E 7HT
UK
Phone: 636 8636
Fax: 636 8739
E-mail:
URL:
Taxonomic group:
Specialization: Ixodida: taxonomy, biology & disease relationships

Vasilieva, Inga
Department of Medical Entomology, Martsinovsky Institute of Medical Parasitology and Tropical Medicine, M.Pirogovskaya, 20. Moscow 119435, Russia.
Moscow
Russia
Phone: 246-80-49, 246-06-44
Fax: 246-90-47
E-mail: ivasilieva@mail.ru
URL:
Taxonomic group: Ixodidae, Argasidae
Specialization: Biology, ecology, epizootology, epidemiology

VASILIU, NICULAI
Biological Research Institute, Bd. Carol I, 20 A, 6600 / Iasi - ROMANIA
Iasi
Romania
Phone: (32)218121
Fax: (32)218121
E-mail:
URL:
Taxonomic group: Oribatida
Specialization: systematics, biology, ecology, faunistics

Vásquez, Rebeca
Calle Sexta 1801-11 Entre Rayón e Iturbide Col. Obrera Ensenada, B.C. México
Ensenada
Mexico
Phone: (6) 1-762372
Fax:
E-mail: rebeca65@yahoo.com
URL:
Taxonomic group: Halacarus sp.
Specialization: Identification Halacarus sp.

Vassiliev, Rafail
All Union Institute of Phytophatology, Golizino Moskowskoi Oblasti
Bolçhie Vjazemy 143050
RUSSIA
Phone:
Fax:
E-mail:
URL:
Taxonomic group:
Specialization: Tetranychidae & Phytoseiidae

Vasuvat, Cherdlarp
Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University , Rajvithi Road
Bangkok 10400
THAILAND
Phone: 246 00568 ext. 552
Fax: 246 8340
E-mail:
URL:
Taxonomic group:
Specialization: Medical-veterinary acarology

Vatansever, Zati
University of Ankara Faculty of Veterinary Medicine Deptartment of Protozoology and Entomology, Ankara, Turkey
Ankara
Turkey
Phone: 312 317 03 15 /348
Fax:
E-mail: vatansev@veterinary.ankara.edu.tr
URL:
Taxonomic group: Ixodida
Specialization: ticks and epidemiology of tickborne diseases

Vavreková, M.
Institute of Virology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dúbravská cesta 9
Bratislava CS-842-46
Slovakia
Phone: 371 046
Fax:
E-mail:
URL:
Taxonomic group:
Specialization: Rickettsia & bacteria transmitted by Acari

Vazquez, Ignacio
Laboratorio de Acarología, Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
México DF 04510
MEXICO
Phone: 550 5912
Fax: 548 8186
E-mail:
URL:
Taxonomic group:
Specialization: Oribatida

Vazquez-Guevara, Maria Elena
Centro de Entomología y Acarología, Colegio de Postgraduados
Chapingo 56230
MEXICO
Phone: 954 2200
Fax: 954 2873
E-mail:
URL:
Taxonomic group:
Specialization: Agricultural & honey bee mites

Vecherkin, S. S.
Institute of Biology, Kyrgyzstan Academy of Sciences, 265 Leninskyi Prospect
Bishkek 720071
Kyrgyz Republic
Phone: 224 5370
Fax: ?????
E-mail:
URL:
Taxonomic group:
Specialization: Ixodidae: medical importance

Veenendaal, René L.
Department of Pure & Applied Ecology, University of Amsterdam, Kruislaan 302
Amsterdam NL-1098 SM
THE NETHERLANDS
Phone: 525 7736
Fax: 525 7754
E-mail:
URL:
Taxonomic group:
Specialization: Phytoseiidae: biology

Veerman, Alfred
Department of Population Biology, Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, Kruislaan 320, 1098 SM Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Phone: 20.5257736
Fax: 20.5257754
E-mail: veerman@science.uva.nl
URL:
Taxonomic group: Tetranychidae, Phytoseiidae
Specialization: diapause, physiology

Vella, Antoine
Institute of Agriculture, University of Malta, Msida, Malta
Msida
Malta
Phone:
Fax:
E-mail: avel2@um.edu.mt
URL:
Taxonomic group:
Specialization: Mites of stored products: systematics and ecology

VENTER, Jan Hendrik
Plant and Quality Control, Private Bag X258, Pretoria, 0001 South Africa
Pretoria
South Africa
Phone: 12-319 6384
Fax: 12-319 6055
E-mail: pph8@nda.agric.za
URL:
Taxonomic group:
Specialization: Plant Quarantine including mites

Ventosa, Luisa
Centro Nacional de Biopreparados, Calle 212, entre 19 y 214, Playa
C. Habana
CUBA
Phone:
Fax:
E-mail:
URL:
Taxonomic group:
Specialization: House dust mites: breeding, allergy & vaccines

Vera, Horacio
Calle T.Narvaja 1674 11200 Montevideo, Uruguay
Montevideo
Uruguay
Phone: (2) 48 74 19
Fax: (2) 48 73 88
E-mail: hvera@fcien.edu.uy
URL:
Taxonomic group: Oribatida
Specialization: ecology

Vermeil, Claude F.
Laboratoire de Parasitologie, U.E.R. de Médecine, 1, Rue G. Veil
Nantes F-44035
FRANCE
Phone:
Fax:
E-mail:
URL:
Taxonomic group:
Specialization: Medical acarology

Verner, Petr H.
Department of Entomology, Research Institute of Food Industry, Radiová 7
Prague 10 CS-102-31
Czech Republic
Phone: 73 44 51
Fax:
E-mail:
URL:
Taxonomic group:
Specialization: Stored products mites: biological control

Vidrine, Malcolm
Division of Sciences, Louisiana State University at Eunice, P. O. Box 1129, Eunice, LA 70535, USA
Eunice Louisiana 70535
USA
Phone: 337-550-1245
Fax: 337-546-6620
E-mail: mvidrine@lsue.edu
URL:
Taxonomic group: Najadicolinae and Unionicolinae (and their hosts)
Specialization: evaluation and conservation of aquatic habitats; systematics, evolution, and ecology of Najadicola and
Unionicola and their hosts, with special interests in coevolutionary
mechanisms and the host-p

Vieira, Marineide Rosa
Departamento de Fitossanidade, Engenharia Rural e Solos, Faculdade de Engenharia, Universidade Estadual Paulista - UNESP. CP. 31, 15385-000, Ilha Solteira-SP
?Ilha Solteira - SP
Brazil
Phone: 18 3743-1143
Fax: 18 3743-1143
E-mail: marineid@bio.feis.unesp.br
URL: www.feis.unesp.br
Taxonomic group: Mites of agricultural importance: phytophagous and predaceous
Specialization: Biology, Ecology, Control

Vierbergen, Bert G.
Plant Protection Service, Department of Diagnostics, Section of Entomology, P.O.B. 9102, 6700 HC WAGENINGEN, The Netherlands
Wageningen
The Netherlands
Phone: 317 496824
Fax: 317 421701
E-mail: g.vierbergen@pd.agro.nl
URL:
Taxonomic group: plant mites and Phytoseiidae
Specialization: plant mites, phytoseiidae, quarantine

VILJOEN, Audrey
Germiston City Council, Health Department, P.O. Box 26 Germiston, 1459 South Africa
Germiston
South Africa
Phone: 11-874 6185
Fax: 11-896 2306
E-mail:
URL:
Taxonomic group: Pyroglyphidae (House dust mites)
Specialization: Distribution and influence on people's health

Villanueva, Raul T.
700 Experiment Station Road, Lake Alfred, FL 33850, USA
Lake Alfred FL
USA
Phone: (863) 956-4311
Fax: (863) 956-4631
E-mail: rtv@lal.ufl.edu
URL:
Taxonomic group:
Specialization:

Villarino, Mario
Department of Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas. 77845 USA
College Station TX
USA
Phone: 409-8451559
Fax:
E-mail:
URL:
Taxonomic group:
Specialization: Population genetics, IPM

Villaromga, Puiggracios
Servei de Protecció dels Vegetals, Ctra. de Vilasar de Mar, s, n
Cabrils E-08348
SPAIN
Phone: 750 7439
Fax: 750 7439
E-mail:
URL:
Taxonomic group:
Specialization: Injurious & predacious mites of filbert trees

Vinuela Sandoval, Elisa
Cátedra de Entomología Agrícola, Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros Agronomos, Ciudad Universitaria S, N
Madrid E-28040
SPAIN
Phone: 544 4807 ext. 295
Fax: 543 4879
E-mail:
URL:
Taxonomic group:
Specialization: Agricultural plant mites

Virgona, Christopher T.F.
CSIRO Division of Chemicals & Polymers, c, o CERIT, School of Biological Science, University of New South Wales, P.O. Box 1
Kensington NSW 2033
AUSTRALIA
Phone: 399 0345
Fax: 399 0346
E-mail:
URL:
Taxonomic group:
Specialization: Pesticide bioassay

Vishnupriya, R.
Department of Entomology, Agricultural College & Research Institute, Tamilnadu Agricultural University
Madurai 625 104
INDIA
Phone:
Fax:
E-mail:
URL:
Taxonomic group:
Specialization: Insect & plant mites

Vjatcheslav, Mitrofanov
Head Plant Protection Department, Nikitsky Botanical Garden - National Research Centre, Plant Protection Department, Nikita, Yalta, Crimea , 98648
Yalta Crimea
Ukraine
Phone: (0654)33-58-40
Fax: (0654)33-53-86
E-mail: flora@gnbs.crimea.ua
URL:
Taxonomic group: Tetranychoidea, Eriophyoidea, Tarsonemoidea,
Siteropthidae and other groups of phytophagous mites
Specialization: Systematic, biology, ecology, control (biodiversity, life-tables, pheromonical communication)

Vladimir, Melamud
State Museum of Natural History Academy of Sciences, Teatralnaya Str., 18, 79008 Lviv, UKRAINE
Lviv
Ukraine
Phone: 72-89-17
Fax: (03-22) 74-23-07
E-mail: museum@ipm.lviv.ua
URL:
Taxonomic group: ORIBATIDA
Specialization: Faunistic research, ecology, systematics, morphology

Vobrázková, Eliska
Institute of Botany, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Zdmek No.1
Pruhonice CS-252-43
Czech Republic
Phone: 75 03 93
Fax:
E-mail:
URL:
Taxonomic group:
Specialization: Medical acarology: ecology & culturing

Vogt, Heidrun
BBA, Institut für Pflanzenschutz im Obstbau, Schwabenheimer Strasse 101
Dossenheim D-69221
GERMANY
Phone: 85238
Fax: 861 222
E-mail:
URL:
Taxonomic group:
Specialization: Plant mites; IPM

Voigt, W. P.
Institut für Veterinärmedizin des Bundesgesundheitsamtes, Diedersdorfer Weg 1
Berlin D-12277
GERMANY
Phone: 7076 2202?
Fax:
E-mail:
URL:
Taxonomic group:
Specialization: Ixodida: tropical livestock & tick-borne diseases

Volk, Steffan
Institut für Pflanzenpathologie und Pflanzenschutz, Georg August Universität, Nikolausbergerweg 5A
Göttingen D-37073
GERMANY
Phone:
Fax:
E-mail:
URL:
Taxonomic group:
Specialization:

Volleth, M.
Institut für Zoologie, Friedrich-Alexander Universität, Staudtstrasse 5
Erlangen D-91058
GERMANY
Phone:
Fax:
E-mail:
URL:
Taxonomic group:
Specialization: Spinturnicidae: taxonomy

Voltzit, Olga
Zoological Museum of the Moscow State University, Bol. Nikitskaya 6, Moscow 103009, Russia
Moscow
Russia
Phone: (095) 203 69 98
Fax:
E-mail: Voltzit@5.zoomus.bio.msu.ru
URL:
Taxonomic group: Ixodidae
Specialization: systematics, morphology

Vomero, Vincenzo
Museo Civico di Zoologia Via Aldrovandi, 18 00197 Roma, Italia
Roma
Italy
Phone: -6-3225122
Fax: -6-3225122
E-mail: v.vomero@iternet.it
URL:
Taxonomic group: Canestriniidae, Mjobiidae
Specialization:

Voss, William J.
Curator, Ft. Worth Museum of Natural Sciences and History, 1501 Montgomery Street, Ft. Worth, TX 76107
Ft. Worth TX
USA
Phone:
Fax:
E-mail:
URL:
Taxonomic group:
Specialization:

Vrie, M. van de
Research Station for Floriculture, Linnaeusstaan 2A
Aalsmeer NL-1431 JU
THE NETHERLANDS
Phone: 20581
Fax: 26151
E-mail:
URL:
Taxonomic group:
Specialization: Mites of greenhouses: biology, ecology & population dynamics; retired

Vsevolod, Sevastyanov
Biological Faculty Odessa State University Shampansky per., 2 Odessa, 65058 Ukraine
Odessa
Ukraine
Phone: 482-687722
Fax:
E-mail:
URL:
Taxonomic group: Acaridae and Tarsonemidae
Specialization: Systematics

Vuorisalo, Timo
Department of Biology, University of Turku
Turku SF-20500
FINLAND
Phone: 633 51
Fax: 633 6590
E-mail:
URL:
Taxonomic group:
Specialization: Eriophyoidea: ecology & plant-host relationships

Vyrosteková, V.
Department of Epidemiology, Medical Faculty, Comenius University, Cs. Armady 24
Bratislava CS-811-08
Slovakia
Phone: 685 41
Fax:
E-mail:
URL:
Taxonomic group:
Specialization: Ixodida: Rickettsia & bacteria transmission

Vyslouzil, Ladislav
Macharova 1380
Horice V Podkrkonosí CS-508-01
Czech Republic
Phone: 2232
Fax:
E-mail:
URL:
Taxonomic group:
Specialization: Medical acarology, esp. Oribatida

VZKAN, Muhlis
Atatürk Üniversitesi, Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi, Biyoloji, 25240 Erzurum, Turkey
Erzurum
Turkey
Phone: 442 - 231 15 43
Fax: 442- 233 10 62
E-mail: mozkan@atauni.edu.tr
URL:
Taxonomic group: Water mites, Hydrachnellae
Specialization: Systematics and ecology

Posted by Zhi-Qiang Zhang on 14 August 2002
on behalf of the Executive Secretary, International Congress of Acarology