UGA’s Plant-Insect Group (PIG) is fashioned after a similar group at Cornell University. This informal group is for researchers working at all career stages across all UGA departments and campuses on any aspect of plant-insect interactions. Graduate students can take this for course credit (and it will be available over zoom) but postdocs, research professionals, and faculty are actively encouraged to attend. This group will meet weekly to discuss current themes and problems in the field and ongoing projects at UGA. We discuss papers, host guest speakers, and foster a supportive environment for early career scientists to develop their research projects.
The goals of the group are to:
- Build a community of researchers working in the same field across departments at UGA and internationally.
- Provide an informal space for students and post-docs to receive feedback from the intellectual community on their research plans/design, data analysis, or talks.
- Expose researchers to the diverse world of plant-insect interaction research, methods, and big questions.
- Discuss recent or seminal papers in the field of plant-insect interactions.
If you would like to be included in email announcements of our weekly meeting topics, please send an email with “PIG sign up” as the subject to shayla.salzman@uga.edu