Lockwood Lectures

• Thursday, September 15, 2022--Dr. Brian Foy, Colorado State University, "Targeting Arbovirus Transmission Through Endectocide- and Oral Vaccine treated Bird Feed,"
• Thursday, June 23, 2022--Dr. Eric Bottos, Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, BC, Canada, "Homogenous Selection and Dispersal Limitation Dominate Ecological Controls on Bacterial Community Composition in Antarctic Dry Valley Soils"
  
   

• Wednesday, October 27, 2021--Prof. Swadeshmukul Santra, University of Central Florida, "Advanced Bactericides/Fungicides for Crop Protection"

 

• Canceled--Friday, October 12, 2018--Dr. Mathews Paret, University of Florida, North Florida Research and Education Center, "Nanotechnology and Bacterial Disease Suppression in Florida Tomatoes"

 

2017

• Monday, November 13, 2017--Dr. Zeyuar R. Khan, Principal Scientist, International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology, Nairobi, Kenya and Adjunct Professor, Cornell University, "Exploiting Chemical Ecology and Plant Signaling for Developing a Push-Pull Strategy for Africa and Beyond"
• Tuesday, October 17, 2017--Prof. Joel A. Pedersen, University of Wisconsin-Madison, "Prions: Environmental Contamination and Disease Transmission"
• Tuesday, June 13, 2017--Dr. Gregory Lowry and Prof. Walter J. Blenko, Carnegie Mellon University, "Engineering Nanomaterial Properties for Applications in Agriculture"
• Tuesday, April 4, 2017--Dr. Jennie R. McLaren, University of Texas at El Paso, "The Greening of the Arctic: How Shrubs Are Changing the Tundra"
• Friday, March 24, 2017--Dr. Shrikant M. Mane, Director of the MBB Keck Biotech Laboratory and Yale Center for Genome Analysis, "Advances in Genomic Technology"
• Friday, February 17, 2017--Dr. Philip Demokritou, Director, Harvard-NIEHS Nanosafety Research Center, "Nanotechnology to the Rescue: A Chemical Free, Antimicrobial Platform Using Engineered Water Nanostructures"
• Friday, February 3, 2017--Dr. Ruth D. Yanai, Director, Graduate School Program in Environmental Science, State University of New York, College of Environmental Science and Forestry, "Quantifying Uncertainty in Ecosystem Studies: Why it's Worth Facing our Fears" 

• Monday, October 3, 2016--Dr. Gregory Martin, Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research and Cornell University, "Using Natural Variation in Tomato to Understand and Improve the Plant Immune System"
• Thursday, May 19, 2016--Dr. James Scott, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, ON, Canada, "The Whiskey Fungus: Systematics and Biology"
• Wednesday, April 6, 2016--Dr. Kathleen Wolf, College of Environment, University of Washington, "The Evolution of Nature in Cities: Sanitary to Sustainable to Sacred"

• Friday, June 5, 2015--Dr. Melanie Kah, University of Vienna, Austria, "When Organics Interact with Particles: The Case of Nanopesticides"
• Wednesday, April 29, 2015-- Sam Droege, USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, U.S. Geologic Survey, U.S. Department of the Interior, Laurel, MD, "The Natural History Gap and the Citizen"

• Friday, May 6, 2011--Dr. Jeanne Romero-Severson, "Seeing the Forest and the Trees"

• Monday, October 25, 2010--Dr. Odile Carisse, "Molecular Tracking of Airborne Inoculum: Impact on Grape Disease Management"
• Friday, May 21, 2010--Dr. Kevin T. Smith, "Tree Survival and Response to Injury, Infection, and Environmental Change"
• Thursday, March 11, 2010--Dr. Clive A. Edwards, "The Use of Aqueous Solutions from Vermicomposts in the Suppression of Plant Diseases of Tomatoes and Cucumbers"     

 

2009

• Wednesday, April 15, 2009--Dr. Li-Jun Ma,"Lineage-specific Chromosomes Related to Pathogenicity Revealed by Fusarium Comparative Genomics"

 

2008

• Thursday, December 4, 2008--Dr. Jeffrey B. Jones,"Current Research on Citrus Canker, Bacterial Spot of Tomato and Pepper, and Bacterial Wilt"
• Monday, December 8, 2008--Dr. Joseph S. Elkinton, "Winter Moth Invasion of New England"