Entomology Recent Publications,Talks and Presentations

Publications

• Hsiao-Ling Lu, Jonathan B. Wang, Markus A. Brown, Christopher Euerle & Raymond J St. Leger. July 23, 2015. Identification of Drosophila mutants affecting defense to an entomopathogenic fungus. Scientific Reports. 5:12350.

Talks & Presentations

• Gruner D.S. gave an oral presentation entitled “Landscape-level experimental decoupling of competing vertebrate insectivores in Hawaiian forest islands.” 52nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation, Honolulu, HI on July 16, 2015.

• Leslie Pick gave a talk at the Tribolium satellite meeting of the Inaugural meeting of the Pan American Society for Evolutionary Developmental Biology in Berkeley, CA on August 4, 2015.
• Jie Xiang presented a poster on her work on Dermestes maculatutus as a new model system at the Inaugural meeting of the Pan American Society for Evolutionary Developmental Biology in Berkeley, CA August 5-9, 2015.
• Forde A.J. & D.S. Gruner gave a poster presentation entitled “Differential responses of arthropod communities in a dynamic marsh-mangrove ecotone.” Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America, Baltimore, MD on August 11, 2015. 
•  Yu S.W., A.J. Forde, & D.S. Gruner gave a poster presentation entitled “Nutrient inputs and herbivores interactively influence black mangrove tolerance to damage.” Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America, Baltimore, MD on August 11, 2015.

• Brian Lovett gave an oral presentation entitled “Semi-field trials and tribulations” at the Society of Invertebrate Pathology Conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada on August 12, 2015.

• Brian Lovett gave an oral presentation entitled “GeoChip analysis of the soil microbial community in turf and winter wheat treated with genetically modified Metarhizium” at the Society of Invertebrate Pathology Conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada on August 12, 2015.

•  Brian Lovett gave an oral presentation entitled “Metarhizium as a multifactorial growth promoter” at the Society of Invertebrate Pathology Conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada on August 12, 2015.
  
• Brian Lovett gave a poster presentation entitled “Comparative genomics of cold adapted Metarhizium frigidum” at the Society of Invertebrate Pathology Conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada on  August 12, 2015.
• Johnston C.A. and D.S. Gruner gave an oral presentation entitled “Preference and survival shape habitat use along a fluctuating wetland landscape.” Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America, Baltimore, MD on August 12, 2015.
  
• Martinson, H, PD Venugopal, E Bergmann, P Shrewsbury, M Raupp. Drivers of host plant use for invasive stink bugs in heterogeneous habitats. Ecological Society of America National Meeting, Baltimore, MD on August 13, 2015.