Thanks to COVID-19 safety protocols, several Srinivasan Lab students and researchers attended the Entomological Society of America annual meeting in Denver, Colorado from October 31 to November 3. This is THE event of the year for entomologists–a place to network, catch up with friends, learn about cutting-edge research, and explore a new city!
Graduate students Yi-Ju Chen and Sudeep Pandey, as well as post-doctoral researchers Habibu Mugerwa and Saptarshi Ghosh traveled to Denver, where they presented components of their research. Dr. Mugerwa (with Dr. Ghosh in the background) was even featured giving his talk on the Entomological Society of America’s Twitter feed!
ESA meetings aren’t all business. The Society organizes events and tours, and there’s always plenty of sightseeing to do. Our group went to the mountains to play in the snow–a rarity in Griffin, Georgia!
Students Michael Catto and Gurjit Singh, post-doc Saioa Legarrea, and research professional Gabrielle LaTora were still able to participate and catch some content by attending the meeting virtually. Check out all the talks given by our group:
Ecology, Epidemiology, and Management of Whiteflies and Whitefly-transmitted Viruses
P-IE Section Symposium
Organized by Rajagopalbabu Srinivasan (UGA), Allen Moore (UGA), and Alvin Simmons (USDA-ARS)
“The relevance of a predatory mite in the management of insect-transmitted viruses in vegetable production”
Rajagopalbabu Srinivasan, B. Dutta, T. Coolong
Member Symposium: Current Advances in Acarology
“Aphid-mediated transmission of cotton leafroll dwarf virus to and from alternate hosts”
Sudeep Pandey, S. Bag, P. Roberts, A. L. Jacobson, R. Srinivasan
Session: Grad P-IE – Vectors
“Detection of viruliferous thrips transmitting tomato spotted wilt orthotospovirus (TSWV) under field conditions in peanut”
Yi-Ju Chen, R. Srinivasan, M. R. Abney, S. Bertioli, S. Bag
Session: Grad P-IE – Vectors
“Transcriptional responses among two Bemisia tabaci cryptic species following acquisition of begomoviruses”
Habibu Mugerwa
P-IE Section Symposium: Ecology, Epidemiology, and Management of Whiteflies and Whitefly-transmitted Viruses
“Transmission of competing poleroviruses by different vectors as a strategy to avoid competitive exclusion”
Saptarshi Ghosh
P-IE Section Symposium: Ecology, Epidemiology, and Management of Whiteflies and Whitefly-transmitted Viruses
“Novel insights on thysanoptera genetics through PacBio sequencing”
Michael Catto, A. L. Jacobson, G. Kennedy, P. Labadie, B. G. Hunt, R. Srinivasan
Session: Grad P-IE – Genetics, Host-Plant Resistance, and IPM
“Knowledge gleaned from the first Great Georgia Pollinator Census”
Gabrielle LaTora, R. Griffin, U. Bhattarai, S. K. Braman
P-IE 10-Minute Paper – Pollinators
