Connecticut State The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station

CAES Seminar Series

2018-2019 SCHEDULE

2018
  1. Wednesday, September 26, 2018--Dr. Theodore Andreadis, Center for Vector Biology & Zoonotic Diseases, CAES Director, "Reflections on the Ecology and Epidemiology of Mosquito-Borne Viruses in Connecticut: An Analysis from 20 Years of Research and Surveillance”

  2. CANCELED--Friday, October 12, 2018--Lockwood Lecture--tea at 10:30 a.m., lecture at 11:00 a.m., Dr. Mathews Paret, University of Florida, North Florida Research and Education Center, Qunicy, FL, "Nanotechnology and Bacterial Disease Suppression in Florida Tomatoes"

  3. Wednesday, October 24, 2018-- Dr. Scott Williams, Department of Forestry and Horticulture, "Tick-Borne Disease Ecology Research Update and Future Direction"  

  4. Wednesday, November 7, 2018-- CANCELED AND RESCHEDULED TO TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11. Dr. Kendra Maas, Microbial Analysis, Resources, and Services (MARS); UConn CORE; title TBA

  5. Thursday, November 15, 2018--Dr. Abigail Maynard, Department of Forestry and Horticulture, "Composting and Utilization of Compost"

  6. Wednesday, November 21, 2018--CANCELED AND RESCHEDULED TO THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15. Dr. Abigail Maynard, Department of Forestry and Horticulture, "Composting and Utilization of Compost"

  7. Wednesday, December 5, 2018--Michael Rickenbach, CT Dept. of Emergency Services and
    Public Protection, Chemical Analysis Section, “An Overview of Programs from the
    Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection Chemical Analysis
    Laboratory    ”

  8. Tuesday, December 11, 2018-- Dr. Kendra Maas, Microbial Analysis, Resources, and Services (MARS); UConn CORE, “Microbial Community Analysis: Combining Advances in Next-Gen Sequencing and Ecological Theory to Explore the Microbial Black Box”

  9. Wednesday, December 19, 2018--Dr. James LaMondia, Valley Laboratory, “Connecticut Cigar Wrapper Tobacco: The Result of Practical Research and 380 Years of Tobacco
    Production    ”

    2019
  10.  Wednesday, January 9, 2019--Dr. Josie Hyde, Department of Environmental Sciences, “The Ecology of Australian Diving Beetles: A Subterranean Pool Party, B.Y.O.G.”

  11. Wednesday, January 16, 2018--Dr. Hannah Reynolds, Biology Department, Western Connecticut State University; “Evolutionary Genomics of Psychedelic and Pathogenic Fungi”

  12. Wednesday, January 23, 2019--Dr. Zhouqi Cui, Department of Plant Pathology and Ecology,
    “Bacterial pathogen Dickeya dadantii differentiates into functional units
    during the invasion of plants    ”

  13. Wednesday, February 6, 2019--Dr. Gale Ridge, Department of Entomology, “The Devil’s Bait: The Chaos of Delusionary Infestations, Where Lives Are Ruined and Occasionally Lost”

  14. Wednesday, February 20, 2019-- Dr. Kirby Stafford, Department of Entomology, “CAES
    History Part 2: 109 Years of “Field Day” at Lockwood Farm    ”

  15. Wednesday, March 6, 2019--Dr. Melody Keena, Forest Service Northern Research Station,
    Hamden, “A Tale of Two Anoplophora, Which Poses the Greater Threat?”

  16. Thursday, March 21, 2019--Ms. Deborah Surabian, State Soil Scientist, Connecticut and Rhode Island, USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service, “Subaqueous Soils – It’s Not Just Mud”

  17. Wednesday, April 3, 2019--Dr. Nubia Zuverza-Mena, Department of Analytical Chemistry,
    “Emerging Contaminants: Not New Pollutants, but Current Concerns”

  18. Tuesday, April 9, 2019--Dr. Pam Marrone, Founder and CEO, Marrone Bio Innovations, “The History, Status and Potential of Biologicals for Pest Management and Plant Health”

  19. Wednesday, April 17, 2019--Dr. Elisha Allen-Perkins, Valley Laboratory, “Reintroducing Hops to Connecticut: Varietal Testing and Integrated Pest Management”

  20. Friday, April 26, 2019--Dr. Tania Maria Guardado Alvarez, TGA Scientific Consulting and Co-Owner of Xotramorphic LLC, “Surface Functionalization of Nanoparticles for Applications from Drug Delivery to Nanoproteomics”

  21. Wednesday, May 1, 2019--Dr. Yi Yang, Department of Environmental Sciences, “Peroxymonosulfate-based Oxidation Processes for Pollutant Degradation in Water”

  22. Wednesday, May 22, 2019--Dr. Daniel Cooley, Stockbridge School of Agriculture, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, “Using Decision Support Systems to Guide Fungicide Spray Programs and Management of Apple Scab”
2017-2018 SCHEDULE
 

2017

1.   Thursday, October 12, 2017--Dr. Charles Vossbrinck, Department of Environmental Science, CAES, “Genomic Ecology of the Microsporidia” (PDF Format)

 

2.   Wednesday, November 1, 2017-- Dr. Jeffrey Ward, Department of Forestry and Horticulture, CAES,  

“Crop Tree Management in Fully and Poorly Stocked Stands”

3.   Tuesday, November 7, 2017-- Dr. Jie Wang, Department of Plant Pathology and Ecology, Michigan State University, “Population Genetics and Disease Management of the Soybean Sudden Death Syndrome Pathogen, Fusarium virguliforme”

4.   Wednesday, November 29, 2017--Dr. Kirby C. Stafford III, Department of Entomology, CAES, “The Lone Star Tick in Connecticut: A New Tick and Associated Diseases on the Horizon”

5.   Wednesday, December 6, 2017--Henry Talmage, Executive Director, CT Farm Bureau Association, “CT Agriculture in 2018: A Discussion of Trends and Analysis by Sector” 

6.   Wednesday, December 20, 2017--Juli Gould, USDA, “Progress Towards Biocontrol of Emerald Ash Borer”

2018

7.   Wednesday, January 3, 2018--Dr. Wade Elmer, Department of Plant Pathology & Ecology, CAES, “Nanoparticles for Plant Disease Control” 

8.   Wednesday, January 17, 2018--Dr. Joseph Pignatello, Department of Environmental Science, CAES, "Roles of Biochars and Other Carbons in Agricultural and Environmental Management" 

9.   Wednesday, January 31, 2018--Dr. Carole Cheah, Valley Laboratory, CAES, “Climate Impacts on Hemlock Woolly Adelgid in the Northeast” 

10.   Wednesday, February 14, 2018--Dr. Martin Gent, Department of Forestry & Horticulture, CAES, "Modeling Translocation and Metabolism in Plants" 

11.  Wednesday, February 21, 2018--Yangchao Luo, UConn, “Nanoscale Oral Delivery Systems Made from All Natural Ingredients and Their Potential Applications in Functional Foods”

12.   Wednesday, February 28, 2018--Dr. DeWei Li, Valley Laboratory, CAES, “Update on Ethnomycology: fungi and human beings”

13.   Thursday, March 15, 2018--Dr. Kimberly Stoner, Department of Entomology, CAES,  “Tracking Sources of Pesticides in Pollen Trapped from Honeybees”

14.   Wednesday, March 28, 2018--Dr. Scott Williams, Department of Forestry & Horticulture, CAES, "Tick-borne disease ecology: Concerns for forest and public health alike"

15.   Wednesday, April 11, 2018 --Prof. Julia Kuzovkina, Department of Analytical Chemistry, UConn, “Willows Beyond Wetlands: Uses of Salix L. Species for Ecosystem Services”

16.   Wednesday, April 25, 2018--Dan Gage, Department of Plant Pathology and Ecology, UConn, “Soil Protists - Enhancing the Growth of Plant Growth Promoting Bacteria”

17.  Thursday, May 10, 2018--Dr. Teja Shidore, Department of Plant Pathology and Ecology, CAES, "Bacterial Toxin-Antitoxin Systems: Implications for Plant Disease"

 

18.  Wednesday, May 23, 2018--Dr. Christina Robb, Department of Analytical Chemistry, CAES, “Select Agent Analysis at CAES”

19.  Wednesday, June 20, 2018--Ms. Clarisse Liné, Ecolab, Toulouse, France, "Impacts and Detection of Carbon Nanotubes on Plants" 


2016-2017 SCHEDULE
 
2016
1.  Wednesday, September 28, 2016--Dr. Jeffrey Ward, Department of Forestry and Horticulture, CAES, "Roadside Forest Management: Tree-by-Tree"
2.  Wednesday, October 19, 2016--Mr. Gregory Bugbee, Department of Environmental Sciences, CAES, "Invasive Aquatic Plants-The State of the State" 
3.  Thursday, October 27, 2016--Dr. Leslie Brandt, Northern Institute of Applied Climate Sciences, U.S. Forest Service, "A Framework for Adapting Forests and Agricultural Resources of Climate Change"
4.  Wednesday, November 2, 2016--Dr. Claire Rutledge, Department of Entomology, CAES, “Biosurveillance, Detecting an Alien Invasive Beetle Using a Native Wasp” 
5.  Wednesday, November 9, 2016--Dr. Jeffrey Powell, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, "Population Genetics to Understand and Control Vectors: Aedes aegypti, a Case Study" 

6.  Wednesday, November 17, 2016--Dr. Katja Maurer, Valley Laboratory, CAES, “Hops – A New Crop for Connecticut” 
7.  Wednesday, December 7, 2016--Dr. Lindsay Triplett, Department of Plant Pathology & Ecology, CAES, "American Heirloom: Looking to a Heritage Crop for Solutions to Modern Agricultural Problems" 
8.  Wednesday, December 21, 2016-- Prof. Baoshan Xing, Stockbridge School of Agriculture, University of Massachusetts, “Engineered Nanomaterials in the Environment” 
2017
9.  Wednesday, January 4, 2017--Dr. Nichole Broderick, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, The Institute of Systems Genomics at the University of Connecticut, “The Microbiome in Health and Disease: Using a Fly Model to Understand Host-microbe Interactions” 
10.  Wednesday, January 18, 2017--Dr. Robert Marra, Department of Plant Pathology & Ecology, CAES, "Accounting for decay and carbon loss in trees: a novel and nondestructive approach using tomography" 
11.  Wednesday, February 1, 2017--Dr. Lawrence F. Gall, Head, Computer Systems Office and Entomology Collections Manager, Peabody Museum of Natural History, “Of Moths, Museums, and Digitization” 
12.  Wednesday, February 15, 2017--Dr. Richard Cowles, Valley Laboratory, CAES, “Neonicotinoids and Honeybees” 
13.  Wednesday, March 1, 2017--Dr. Donald Aylor, Department of Pathology and Ecology, CAES, "A Biophysical Framework for Modeling Aerial Dispersal of Plant Pathogens" 
14.  Wednesday, March 15, 2017--Dr. Walter Krol, Department of Analytical Chemistry, CAES, “Pesticide Residues in Food Sold in Connecticut: The Road to Gaining ISO Accreditation” 
15. Friday, March 17, 2017--Comm. Steven Reviczky, Connecticut Department of Agriculture, "Agriculture in Connecticut" 
16. Wednesday, March 29, 2017--Prof. Beth Lawrence, Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, Center for Environmental Science & Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, "Impacts of Invasive Cattail (Typha x glauca) Management on Wetland Ecosystems Services" 
17.  Wednesday, April 12, 2017--Dr. Gale Ridge, Department of Entomology, CAES, “The Maligned Human Bed Bug: A Masterpiece in Adaptation and Survival” 
18.  Wednesday, April 26, 2017--Dr. Zheng Wang, Yale University, “Traffic lights to fungal sex–toward systems biology of the asexual-sexual switch in fungi” 
19.  Wednesday, May 10, 2017--Dr. Craig Brodersen, Assistant Professor of Plant Physiological Ecology, Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, "Using 3D X-ray Imaging to Study the Vulnerability of Plant Vascular Systems to Drought and Pathogens"
 
20.  Wednesday, May 17, 2017--Dr. Ben Niu, Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, "After the Plant-Root Microbiome...What Next?"
21.  Wednesday, May 24, 2017-- Dr. Nubia Zuverza-Mena, Department of Analytical Chemistry, CAES, “The Good/Bad and the Unknown about Nanotechnology” 
2015-2016 SCHEDULE
 
2015

1.—Wednesday, October 7--Dr. Quan Zeng, Dept. of Plant Pathology and Ecology, CAES, "Using comparative genomics approaches to understand an emerging turf grass disease: what questions can we ask and what do we learn?" 

2.—Wednesday, October 21--Dr. Luca Pagano, Dept. of Life Sciences, University of Parma, Parma, Italy, "Functional toxicogenomics of metal-based nanoparticles in model organisms" 
3.—Wednesday, November 4--Dr. Lili He, Dept. of Food Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, "Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy: a next generation analytical tool for detection and characterization of nanoparticle contaminants" 

4.—Wednesday, November 25--Dr. Neil Schultes, Dept. of Plant Pathology and Ecology, CAES, "Purine and pyrimidine transporters in plants and select microbes"

5.—Wednesday, December 9--Dr. Elizabeth Roberts, Southern Connecticut State University, “Fungi, fescue, and a tripartitemicrobial mutualism” 

2016

6.—Wednesday, January 6--Dr. Victoria L. Smith, Dept. of Entomology, CAES, “Inspection, registration, and early detection:activities of the Office of the State Entomologist”

7.—Wednesday, January 13--Dr. Kirby C. Stafford III, Dept. of Entomology, CAES, "The birth of an idea: a history of the first agricultural experiment station--CAES" (Flyer) (Full Presentation)

8.—Wednesday, January 27--Dr. Peter J. Krause, Senior Research Scientist, Dept. of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale School of Medicine, “Emerging tick-borne infections: Babesiosis and hard tick relapsing fever”

9.—Wednesday, February 17--Dr. Jeffrey Ward, Dept. of Forestry and Horticulture, CAES, “Mixing applied and basic research—crop tree management” 

10.—Wednesday, March 9--Dr. Adriana Arango-Velez, Dept. of Forestry and Horticulture, CAES, “Environmental challenges and trees…who wins the battle?” 

11.—Wednesday, March 30--Dr. Richard Cowles, Valley Laboratory, CAES, “Against the wind: challenges in applying behavioral manipulation to manage spotted wing drosophila”

12.—Wednesday, April 13--Dr. Sam Telford, Tufts University, “Emergence, expansion, and changes in the frequency of vector-borne diseases in the US” 

13.—Wednesday, April 20--Dr. Anthony DeNicola, White Buffalo, “Can tick-associated disease risks be mitigated through deer management?”

14.—Wednesday, April 27--Dr. Doug Brackney, Dept. of Environmental Sciences, CAES, “Genetic bottlenecks, RNAi-mediated diversification and selective constraints collectively influence the evolution of Powassan virus"

15.—Tuesday, May 10-- Dr. Blaire Steven, Dept. of Environmental Sciences, CAES, A microbial ecological perspective on sudden vegetation dieback in coastal wetlands”

16.—Wednesday, May 25-- Paula Schenck, M.P.H., Director, Indoor Environments and Health Programs, Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, UConn Health Center, “Mold Exposure and health: Why has it become more of a concern? What does exposure mean to health? What have we learned about added risks, as communities recover from catastrophic weather?"