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Christmon Co-Authors Paper on Honeybee RNA Virus Vectors

3/30/2020

 
HoneybeePhoto Credit: M Raupp
Krisztina Christmon (PhD student, vanEngelsdorp Lab), who is studying the host-parasite-pathogen interaction of honeybees, is co-author of a paper published in Viruses special issue: Advances in Honey Bee Virus Research. Follow link to read Krisztina’s first ever publication titled, “Development of a Honeybee RNA Virus Vector Based on the Genome of a Deformed Wing Virus.” Krisztina and her fellow researchers are hopeful that the development of these vectors could lead to the further understanding of viruses like deformed wing virus including similar viruses affecting different bee species.

https://doi.org/10.3390/v12040374

Congratulations on reaching this milestone Krisztina!


Catching bugs isn’t just for entomologists: Inside the University of Maryland’s plant diagnostic lab

3/23/2020

 
Fig. 1. Number of samples received by the UMD Plant Diagnostic Lab between 2002 and 2020. Graph kindly provided by Dr. Rane.Fig. 1. Number of samples received by the UMD Plant Diagnostic Lab between 2002 and 2020. Graph kindly provided by Dr. Rane.
written by:  Dongxu Chen, PhD student, Hawthorne lab and Katie Reding, PhD student, Pick lab

Every gardener, farmer, or landscaper will at some point find some mysterious spots on their prized plants, or perhaps find that a random subset of their crop has wilted overnight. To anyone who’s not an expert, the pathogens causing these diseases can be hard to identify and seemingly impossible to control. Indeed, it can take much more than a trained eye to properly diagnose many plant diseases; often, axenic culture (growing only the organism of interest without contaminants) of the pathogen is required, and in some cases molecular tests are warranted. Dr. Karen Rane, the entomology department’s resident plant pathologist and this week’s colloquium speaker, uses all of these tools and more to handle the roughly 700-900 diseased plant samples her plant diagnostic lab receives each year (Fig. 1)*.



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Nathan Selected Katherine S. McCarter Graduate Student Policy Award Recipient

3/11/2020

 
Mayda Nathan
Congratulations Mayda Nathan (PhD student, Gruner Lab) on being selected to receive the Ecological Society of America's Katherine S. McCarter Graduate Student Policy Award! Mayda is currently studying the recent northward range expansion of Florida’s mangroves. As a recipient of the award Mayda will travel to DC this March to meet with lawmakers and advocate for federal funding for biological and ecological sciences. 

Follow link to read ESA's press release: 
https://www.esa.org/blog/2020/03/02/esa-selects-2020-katherine-s-mccarter-graduate-student-policy-award-recipients

Raupp tells WBALTV bugs emerging early

3/11/2020

 
​Unusually warm weather has bugs emerging sooner than expected. "People need to understand that as soon as the temperatures reach maybe 55 to 60 degrees, those ticks are going to be active -- they’re going to be looking for food and that’s going to be you,” Professor Emeritus, Mike Raupp tells WBALTV.  Raupp also reminds viewers, it’s not just pests that are emerging early it’s pollinators too.

Follow link to story: 
https://www.wbaltv.com/article/spring-like-temperatures-bugs-emerging/31262917?fbclid=IwAR1KByUyuwXxGF8D7uBW309zwn_Ql6gS2-3NR4FNCHuR5_B4MdniPZLStiM

MacCracken published in Journal of Plant Sciences

3/4/2020

 
MacCracken has a paper out in the Journal of Plant Sciences on Permian insect herbivory titled,  "The Middle Permian South Ash Pasture Assemblage of North-Central Texas: Coniferophyte and Gigantopterid Herbivory and Longer-Term Herbivory Trends." Check out publication here>>

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