Dani Dryer has been the Technical Services Manager at IFC since May 2023. She previously worked as a Biological Sciences Laboratory Technician at the USDA-ARS in Manhattan, Kansas, studying stored product insect behavior and chemical communication. Dani also worked on developing pheromone and sticky traps for monitoring pests and evaluated mating disruption dispensers for Indian meal moths in warehouse settings.

Dani is currently completing her master’s degree in Entomology with the State University of New York Environmental School of Forestry, where she studied an invasive, parasitic muscid fly species in the Galápagos Islands and how these flies use chemical cues to find their hosts. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Interdisciplinary Studies, with a concentration in Biology, from Cornell University.