Marjorie Ann Hoy (19 May 1941 – 19 June 2020) was an American

entomologist Entomology () is the scientific study of insects, a branch of zoology. In the past the term "insect" was less specific, and historically the definition of entomology would also include the study of animals in other arthropod groups, such as arach ...

and geneticist known for her work using

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(IPM) and biological control in agriculture. She was Professor and Eminent Scholar at the

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of the Royal Entomological Society of London, the

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, and

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. In 2004, she was awarded the

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by the

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(CAST). Hoy was known as a pioneer in using

genetic engineering Genetic engineering, also called genetic modification or genetic manipulation, is the modification and manipulation of an organism's genes using technology. It is a set of technologies used to change the genetic makeup of cells, including t ...

to reduce the impact of agricultural pests, including developing pesticide resistant predators to control populations of destructive pests in areas where pesticides are applied. Her books include the textbook ''Insect Molecular Genetics'', the third edition of which was published in 2013.

Education and career

Hoy was born in

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, in 1941. She earned her BA at the

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in 1963, and completed her M.S. (1966) and PhD (1972) at the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

. She was Research Entomologist at the

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(1973–1974) and U.S. Forest Service Northeast Forest Experiment Station (1974–1976) before joining the faculty at University of California, Berkeley, where she worked from 1976 to 1992. She joined the University of Florida in 1992. She died in Colorado on June 19, 2020, aged 79.

Books

* 179 pp. * 185 pp. * 589 pp. * 540 pp. (2nd edition, 2003; 3rd edition, 2013) * 430 pp.

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Faculty profile
Entomology and Nematology Department, University of Florida 1941 births 2020 deaths People from Kansas City, Kansas University of Kansas alumni University of California, Berkeley alumni University of California, Berkeley College of Natural Resources faculty University of Florida faculty Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellows of the Entomological Society of America 20th-century American women scientists American geneticists Fellows of the Royal Entomological Society American arachnologists 20th-century American scientists American women entomologists American women academics 21st-century American women {{US-entomologist-stub