#Cornellento

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Check out Ann Hajeks book that was published in January.https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Ecology+of+Invertebrate+Diseases-p-9781119256076

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Congratulations 2018 Entomology Graduates!

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Check out this article in the Cornell Chronicle on our spiders for the museum exhibit Dr. Linda Rayor and five undergraduates, Jake Gorneau, Leeah Richardson, Joe Gulian, Arabelle Orsicky, and Kristianna Lea, spent five months preparing North American spiders for a major international traveling exhibit on Spiders.   Together, they helped prepare over 300 spiders in life-like positions for the show.  Australia Museum's 'Spiders: Alive and Deadly' will be opening at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, Canada on 16 June 2018, and then touring around the US and Canada for 5 years.: http://news.cornell.edu/stories/2018/02/its-alive-students-snare-spiders-museum-exhibit

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Check out some of the spiders that will be shipped out to the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto for a June exhibit. 5 talented undergraduates (Joe Guilian, Leeah Richardson, Jake Gorneau, Arabelle Orsicky, Kristianna Lea) and Prof.Linda Rayor prepared 95% (~200+) of the NA spiders! They were on display today in Comstock Hall.  

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Check out another Article by Ann Hajek published by Neobiota called "Comparing functional traits and abundance of invasive versus native woodwasps" https://neobiota.pensoft.net/article/14953/

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Katja Poveda has been promoted to Associate Professor. Please be sure to congratulate Katja on this wonderful achievement!  

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Check out Ann Hajek's article on "Symbionts mediate oviposition behaviour in invasive and native woodwasps" on http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/afe.12276/abstract?campaign=wolearlyview

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Patrick O’Grady published a paper in the Cornell Chronicle January 30th, 2018. The article is called “‘Lab rats of molecular biology’ find home on campus” with a picture of Lidane Noronha.

http://news.cornell.edu/stories/2018/01/lab-rats-molecular-biology-find-home-campus

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ESA Award Winners 2017

Matt Boucher—First place for his 10-minute talk in the Plant-Insect Ecosystems, Vectors of Plant Diseases section titled, “Identifying and detailing the role of insects in the  spread of Erwinia amylovora, a devastating disease of rosaceous crops”.  Kerik Cox and Greg Loeb were co-authors.

Kristen Brochu – First place for her 10-minute talk in the Plant-Insect Ecosystems, General Ecology 2 section titled, “Microbial communities in ground-nesting bee brood cells:  Diverse, stable, and unique”.  Bryan Danforth was a co-author.

Laura Figueroa – First place for her 10-minute talk in the Plant-Insect Ecosystems, Pollination 1 section titled, “Pathogen transmission among bees through shared floral resources:  The role of flower species and pathogen placement”.  Lynn Adler, Rebecca Irwin, Cali Grincavitch, Emilia Mann, Lucy Metz, Amy Zhao and Scott McArt were co-authors.

Zoe Getman-Pickering – First place for her poster in the Plant-Insect Ecosystems, Chemical Ecology and Climate Change section titled, “The role of mycorrhizae and nutrient availability in plant-herbivore interactions”.  Jennifer Thaler was a co-author.

Maxwell Helmberger-- named a winner in the Plant-Insect Ecosystems section Pollinator Video Contest and an honorable mention in the ESA-wide YouTube Your Entomology Video contest. 

Ashley Leach – First place for her poster in the Virtual Poster: Plant-Insect Ecosystems section titled, “Evaluating major sources of iris yellow spot virus in New York”.  Marc Fuchs, Riley Harding, Rebecca Schmidt-Jeffris, and Brian Nault were co-authors.

Ricardo Perez-Alvarez - First place for his 10-minute talk in the Plant-Insect Ecosystems, Biological Control, Predators section titled, “Delivery of pest control services is mediated by the  functional composition of predator communities”.  Anthony Polyakov and Katja Poveda were co-authors.

Erin Krichilsky – Second place for her 10-minute talk in the Plant-Insects Ecosystems, Miscellaneous section titled, “Taking inventory:  Drivers of the bee associated fungi (Genus: Asocsphaera) in the solitary mason bee, Osmia cornifrons.  Heather Grab, Mary Centrella and Bryan Danforth were co-authors.

Danielle Rutkowski – First place for her poster in the Plant-Insects Ecosystems, Ecology section titled, “The effects of jasmonic acid and mycorrhizal species on the nutrition, defense, and mycorrhizal colonization of Solanum lycopersicum”.  Zoe Getman-Pickering and Jennifer Thaler were co-authors.

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Brian Lazzaro was awarded the CALS Rising Star Faculty Award. Check it out at https://cals.cornell.edu/news/outstanding-alumni-and-faculty-periodicals-fall-2017

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Check out this book that Ann Hajek co-wrote with Davis Shapiro-Ilan.

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Insect Phylogeny: Understanding evolutionary relationships starring Kyle DeMarr, Produced by Linda Rayor. 

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Check out this article in the Cornell Chronicle reporting on research conducted in my lab by Dr. Tonya Bittner. http://news.cornell.edu/stories/2017/08/fungal-spore-death-clouds-key-gypsy-moth-fight

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Arthropod Predators: Nature’s defenders short version, starring Cameron Jones and Ben Lee, produced by Linda Rayor

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Congratulations recipients of the 2017 faculty and staff awards. Entomology has a remarkable number of recipients:  

CALS Outstanding Research Award: Greg Loeb

CALS Early Achievement Award: Kyle Wickings

CALS Career Achievement Award: Charlie Linn

CALS Faculty Excellence in Undergraduate Research Mentoring Award: Jeff Scott

CALS Young Faculty Teaching Excellence Award: Katja Poveda

·         CALS Outstanding Accomplishments in Extension and Outreach: Scott McArt, Bryan Danforth, Jennifer Grant (NYS IPM), Emma Mullen, Maria van Dyke, Mary Kate Wheeler, and Dan Wixted (PMEP program).

Congratulations to all of the Entom recipients!  These are very well-deserved awards.

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An article in the Cornell Chronicle reporting on research conducted in my lab by Dr. Tonya Bittner. http://news.cornell.edu/stories/2017/08/fungal-spore-death-clouds-key-gypsy-moth-fight