Dr. David Mota-Sanchez is an Associate Professor at the Department of Entomology at Michigan State University. He completed his BS at the Autonomous University of Chapingo in 1983, his MS at COLPOS-Colegio de Posgraduados in 1988, and his Ph.D. at Michigan State University in 2003. His research focuses on the evolution of arthropod resistance to pesticides, insecticide toxicology, and the metabolism of pesticides in insects. He is working on the resistance of the Colorado potato beetle, the fall armyworm, Western flower thrips, and fruit pests to insecticides and the fall armyworm to insecticides and Bt toxins. He is Co-Director of the Arthropod Pesticide Resistance Database, which tracks cases of arthropod resistance globally dating back to 1914. He is also working on IPM, insecticide resistance management, international agriculture, and biotechnology, particularly in Latin America. He served as an Embassy Science Fellow with the U.S. State Department and USDA FSA in Mexico to increase the awareness and understanding of GE crops and provide scientific information that illustrates the economic benefits and social importance of the production of such crops in Mexico. In addition, he has extended projects to train Latino farmers in IPM and access to USDA programs. He is also working on research and the extension of the monarch butterfly in Michigan and Mexico.