The Ashbrook lab at Louisiana State University's Department of Entomology is recruiting a Master’s student that will focus on management of bed bugs and German cockroaches using fungal entomopathogens in the spring of 2026. The successful candidate will investigate entomopathogen infectivity, changes in host behaviors once infected, and subsequent transmission of the pathogen to conspecifics. The LSU Department of Entomology is located in Baton Rouge on the banks of the Mississippi River. The Department is co-located with the Life Sciences Building, and students have access to diverse campus facilities https://www.lsu.edu/research/about/centers.php) to obtain additional training and assistance for their research.