The Oladipupo Lab

We are broadly interested in developing sustainable urban pest management solutions through interdisciplinary research. Our lab uses diverse approaches – molecualr diagnostics,population genomics, biochemistry, and bioinformatics – to investigate how detection, behavior, and reproduction shape urban insect pest resilience. We also integrate socioeconomic research on pest prevalence to create comprehensive, eco-friendly management strategies

Some areas of focus are:

  • Detecting bed bug infestations before they are visible using environmental DNA (eDNA) diagnostics
  • Mapping how bed bugs spread across Ohio cities and how they discriminate between hosts
  • Investigating how the bacterial symbiont Wolbachia shapes bed bug reproduction

The Oladipupo Lab News

  • May 2026: Graduate students Abdulafees Hamzat and Grace Amponsah co-authored the Bed Bug Look-Alikes Ohioline fact sheet with Seun
  • April 7, 2026: Nina Brown presents her Honors thesis at the College of Publich Health Undergraduate Research Symposium
  • October 2025: Seun named to Auburn University’s 2025 class of 20 Under 40 Alumni
  • September 12, 2025: Our paper, Deubiquitylases and nucleases in bacterial symbiont-induced cytoplasmic incompatibility, got accepted in Biochemical Society Transactions
  • July 24, 2025: Manuscript from meta-analysis class by Prabath Mudiyanselage, Does growing latitude influence soybean seed critical amino acid content? A meta-analysis was accepted in Agricultural and Environmental Letters
  • Our featured story, Don’t let bed bugs crash your vacation, was the number one headline for Thursday, July 24, 2025. Read more on the CFAES page
  • June 02, 2025: Undergraduates, Nina Brown and Ashely Hamby, join the lab to work on Mapping Inequities Seed Grant
  • May 30, 2025: Visiting Scholar, Damilola Gbore, joins Cambridge University. Best wishes, Damilola!
  • May 2, 2025: Mapping Inequities Seed Grant awarded. Funded by Kirwan Institute!
  • April 17, 2025: Incoming graduate student, Abdulafeez Hamzat, awarded a University Fellowship to support his Master’s research
  • March 12, 2025: Seun gave a Wooster Science Café calk titled The Science of the Unseen
  • March 10, 2025: Our collaborative work on Origins of Cin is available on BioRxiv
  • March 06, 2025: Seun presented on cockroach control at Structural and Vertebrate Pest Webinar
  • January 06, 2025: Visiting scholar, Damilola Gbore, joins our lab
  • August 15, 2024: The Oladipupo Lab door opened at The Ohio State University

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