Early Career Professional Recognition Symposium

Organizer(s)

• PC

  Priyadarshini Chakrabarti Basu

  Assistant Professor
  Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Entomology and Plant Pathology
  Mississippi State University
  Starkville, Mississippi

The Early Career Professional Recognition Symposium recognizes four outstanding ECPs (one from each ESA section). The selection is competitive. The symposium highlights the diverse and outstanding work that ECPs do for entomology.

Presentations:

• 1:30 PM – 2:00 PM ET

  Microbiomes of "parasitic" and "non parasitic" facultatively parasitic mites
  

  Presenting Author: Emily Shea Durkin – University of Tampa

  Co-Author: Anngelyk LaLuz – University of Tampa

  Co-Author: Kelsey Logan – University of Tampa
• 2:00 PM – 2:30 PM ET

  Applied pollination ecology in a diverse agroecosystem: From row crops to specialty crops
  

  Presenting Author: Hannah K. Levenson – North Carolina State University
• 2:30 PM – 3:00 PM ET

  Tick-bites and alpha-gal syndrome: Host-specific alpha-gal levels in the salivary gland of the lone star tick Amblyomma americanum
  

  Presenting Author: Paulina Maldonado-Ruiz – Kansas State University

  Co-Author: Kathryn Reif (she/her/hers) – Kansas State University

  Co-Author: Anuradha Ghosh – Pittsburg State University

  Co-Author: Stephanie Fore – Truman State University

  Co-Author: Rachel L. Johnson – Kansas State University

  Co-Author: Yoonseong Park – Kansas State University
• 3:00 PM – 3:30 PM ET

  Jasmonates impact aphid foraging behavior, feeding physiology, nutrition, and reproduction rate
  

  Presenting Author: Sajjan Grover (he/him/his) – Bayer Crop Science

  Co-Author: Joe Louis – University of Nebraska