Early Career Professional Recognition Symposium and Town Hall

Organizer(s)

• SO

  Scott O'Neal

  Research Entomologist
  Crop Protection Discovery
  Corteva Agriscience
  Indianapolis, Indiana
• 

  Anastasia Cooper (she/her/hers)

  Postdoctoral Fellow
  Pathobiology
  Auburn University
  Opelika, Alabama
• EJ

  Ellis Johnson

  Eurofins Agroscience Services
  Burlington, North Carolina

Presentations:

• 2:00 PM – 2:05 PM MST

  Introductory remarks
  

  Presenting Author: Scott T. O'Neal – Corteva Agriscience
• 2:35 PM – 3:05 PM MST

  Good bugs and bad bugs across time and space: A crash course in the diversity and creativity of modern classical biological control programs
  

  Presenting Author: Nicole F. Quinn – University of Florida
• 3:05 PM – 3:15 PM MST

  Break
• 3:15 PM – 3:45 PM MST

  Hemocytes pleiotropic effects on midgut homeostasis and immunity are agonists of Plasmodium falciparum infection
  

  Presenting Author: Victor Manuel Jonathan Cardoso-Jaime (he/him/his) – Johns Hopkins University

  Co-Author: George Dimopoulos – Johns Hopkins University
• 3:45 PM – 4:15 PM MST

  Evaluating underserved grower needs through a needs assessment of southwest Washington's cranberry and shellfish growers
  

  Presenting Author: Laura Joan Kraft – Washington State University

  Co-Author: Nicole Naar – University of Washington
• 4:15 PM – 4:25 PM MST

  Break
• 4:25 PM – 4:55 PM MST

  Honey bee immune response to sublethal concentrations of clothianidin goes beyond the macronutrients found in artificial diets
  

  Presenting Author: Pierre Lau (he/him/his) – USDA-ARS

  Co-Author: Giovanni Tundo – USDA-ARS

  Co-Author: Joel Caren – USDA-ARS

  Co-Author: Weiqiang Zhang (he/him/his) – USDA-ARS

  Co-Author: Yu-Cheng Zhu (he/him/his) – USDA-ARS
• 4:55 PM – 5:55 PM MST

  Town Hall
• 5:55 PM – 6:00 PM MST

  Closing remarks
  

  Presenting Author: Scott T. O'Neal – Corteva Agriscience