John La Salle

Dr John La Salle is project leader for the CRCNPB's remote microscopes project. Dr La Salle's main area of research has been on the systematics of the Hymenoptera family Eulophidae (Chalcidoidea) and he has 20 years research experience in the systematics and biology of parasitic Hymenoptera. This is a large family, with just over 4, 000 described species. Dr La Salle co-authored a paper (Gauthier et al., 2000) which presented a new classification for this family that differed considerably from previous thinking.