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Assistant Professor
Purdue University
West Lafayette, Indiana, United States
Dr. Enders is an applied evolutionary biologist that studies plant-insect-microbe interactions in agroecosystems. She received her PhD from the University of California - Riverside, where she studied stress biology and population genetics in Drosophila. She then went on to work as a postdoctoral researcher at the University Nebraska -Lincoln and Kansas State University where she focused on uncovering the molecular mechanisms responsible for virulence of aphid pests in soybean and wheat. In 2017 she joined Purdue University's Entomology Department where she has expanded her research interests to include both plant and insect microbiomes. In addition to research, she currently teaches undergraduate level Insect Physiology & Biochemistry and a graduate level Science Writing course at Purdue.