Associate Curator, Invertebrate Zoology
Biography
Ainsley Seago is the associate curator for the Section of Invertebrate Zoology at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. She earned her BS in entomology from Cornell University in 2003 and her PhD in entomology from U.C. Berkeley in 2008. After six years of postdoctoral research in beetle systematics at the Australian National Insect Collection, she served as the insect collection manager for the New South Wales Department of Primary Industries Biosecurity Collection from 2015-2020. This work involved both collection management and insect diagnostics for biosecurity purposes. Since 2003, Dr. Seago has continued to research the taxonomy and systematics of truffle beetles (family Leiodidae), as well as phylogenetics of other beetle groups and the evolutionary origins of insect iridescence.
Dr. Seago returned to the United States in 2020 to join the staff of the Section of Invertebrate Zoology. As a curator, her goals are to continue her research on Coleoptera while overseeing the ongoing effort to catalogue the insect collection and to curate CMNH’s historical Lepidoptera specimens. She is a member of the Coleopterists’ Society and the Entomological Society of America.
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