Dr. Tom Phillips is the Donald Wilbur Endowed Professor for Stored Product Protection at Kansas State University. He has published over 200 peer-reviewed articles on various topics in Entomology, majority of which are on pest management fo stored product insects. During Tom’s 35 years in stored product entomology he has worked for the USDA Agriculture Research Service, Oklahoma State University and KSU for the past 18 years. Dr. Phillips has conducted numerous studies with heat, cold and fumigation, and residual pesticides for controlling various storage pests. Alternatives to fumigants studied in the Phillips lab include work with controlled atmospheres, particularly low oxygen or high carbon dioxide for insect control, as well as physical control such as repellent lighting or safe barriers to prevent infestations of high-value durable foods. Phillips has also done research with alternatives to pesticides such as pheromone-based mating disruption of moths and beetles. Releasing a very high concentration of synthetic sex pheromones in a defined space interrupts the ability for males to find and mate females, thus stopping reproduction of the target pest. Research in Dr. Phillips’s lab has been funded by both public and private sources. Tom teaches courses at KSU in general Entomology, Stored Product Entomology and Insect Chemical Ecology. Phillips has extensive experience mentoring students and visitors, as major professor for 28 graduate students and mentoring 15 postdoctoral or visiting scientists during his career.