Dr. Throne is Research Leader of the Biological Research Unit at the USDA-ARS Grain Marketing and Production Research Center in Manhattan, Kansas, and Adjunct Professor of Entomology at Kansas State University. He is internationally recognized for his research program on ecology and management of insect pests, the application of simulation modeling to agricultural research, and the development of statistical methods for life sciences research.

1997 – present, Research Leader, Biological Res. Unit, USDA-ARS GMPRC, Manhattan, KS

1995 – present, Adjunct Professor, Dept. of Entomology, Kansas State University

1994 – 1997, Research Entomologist, USDA-ARS GMPRC, Manhattan, KS

1985 – 1994, Research Entomologist, USDA-ARS Stored-Product Insects Research & Development Laboratory, Savannah, GA

1983 – 1985, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Entomology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC

    Throne, J.E., J.E. Baker, F.J. Messina, K.J. Kramer, and J.A. Howard. Varietal resistance. In Bh. Subramanyam and D.W. Hagstrum [eds.], Alternatives to pesticides in stored-product IPM. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Norwell, MA (in press).

    Kramer, K.J., T.D. Morgan, J.E. Throne, F.E. Dowell, M. Bailey, and J.A. Howard. 2000. Transgenic avidin maize is resistant to storage insect pests. Nature Biotechnology 18: 670-674.

    Throne, J.E., D.W. Hagstrum, and J. Nawrot. 1998. A computer model for simulating almond moth (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) population dynamics. Environmental Entomology 27: 344-354.

    Dowell, F.E., J.E. Throne, and J.E. Baker. 1998. Automated nondestructive detection of internal insect infestation of wheat kernels using near-infrared reflectance spectroscopy. Journal of Economic Entomology 91: 899-904.