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The Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology currently is seeking an assistant professor of apiculture (12-month tenure-track, 100% Extension). The full announcement can be found here.

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EUReCA! winners
Logan Houston, an undergraduate researchers in the Trigiano lab, was awarded a Gold Medal at last night’s EUReCA awards ceremony. Logan’s award was one of four in the STEM section of the competition. Logan’s research, “Geographical location drives the population structure of native Asian Cornus florida” was supported by the Trigiano lab and guided primarily by Dr. Marcin Nowicki. Angel Chaffin, one of our EPP minors, was awarded an Honorable Mention for her work on, “Potential pathogens of industrial hemp (Cannibas sativa)”. Although her research was sponsored by Dr. Kimberly Gwinn, she was also assisted by Cody Seals, Mary Dee, Dr. Ernest Bernard, and Dr. Jerome Grant. Geordan Hall, who worked with Drs. Karen Vail and Becky Trout Fryxell, also…
April 24, 2018
Carl Jones Memorial Event and Endowment
Please join UT President Joe DiPietro and UTIA Chancellor Tim Cross as we introduce the Carl Jones Memorial Entomology and Plant Pathology Graduate Enhancement Endowment. This endowment memorializes Carl Jones, former professor and head of the Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology. Friday, April 27 3:00 p.m. Plant Biotech Building, Room 160 This fund was established by retired faculty member Reid Gerhardt, along with the generosity of other faculty members and friends of Carl. Cruze Dairy Farm ice cream will be served after a short program.
April 24, 2018
Congratulations to Dr. Bonnie Ownley!
Dr. Bonnie Ownley was selected as the 2018 UT Notable Woman of the Year. The announcement can be found here.
April 20, 2018
EPP searching for new faculty member – Assistant Professor of Apiculture
The Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology currently is seeking an assistant professor of apiculture (12-month tenure-track, 100% Extension). The full announcement can be found here.
April 16, 2018
Amy Michael – exit seminar
EPP graduate student Amy Michael will present her exit seminar entitled “Interactive Ecology of the Kudzu Bug in Eastern Tennessee” on Friday, April 20th, at 10am in PBB 160.
April 16, 2018
New extension publication – Grasshoppers in Soybean
EPP graduate students Clay Perkins and Scott Graham recently published a paper entitled “Grasshoppers in Soybean.” The full article can be found here.
April 6, 2018
Satyendra Pothula – exit seminar
EPP graduate student Satyendra Pothula will present his exit seminar entitled “Resilience of nematode food webs under temperature stress associated with climate change” on Friday, April 13th, at 10am in PBB 160.
April 6, 2018
Recent article: Sociometry of Solenopsis geminata reveals variation in colony-level phenotypes in fire ants
Abstract: In social insects, natural selection operates at the level of the colony, rather than the individual, but our understanding of how colony-level phenotypes arise and vary between species is lacking. Here, we test how colony-level phenotypes vary within the fire ants by measuring the composition of colonies of the tropical fire ant, Solenopsis geminata, over a wide range of sizes at multiple times throughout the year. Similar to the well-studied fire ant species S. invicta, we find that S. geminata colony composition varies strongly with colony size, such that as colonies grow they produce increasingly large workers as well as queens and males. However, major production increases more rapidly with colony size in S. geminata than in S. invicta,…
April 4, 2018
New genetic study reveals cryptic diversity in the native North American fire ants
The native North American fire ants (Solenopsis Westwood) comprise a difficult group taxonomically that has undergone multiple revisions in the past century yet remains in a state of taxonomic uncertainty. The results of our genetic study demonstrated that the recognised North American fire ant species represent evolutionarily independent entities. We also confirm the presumed sister status of the desert fire ants, S. aurea Wheeler and S. amblychila Wheeler. However, we also found tat least two genetically divergent populations within the nominal species boundaries, including a western form of S. xyloni and a distinct population of S. aurea. These results suggest that the current taxonomy does not fully capture the species‐level diversity in this group. Our study provides the molecular foundation for…
April 4, 2018
EPP faculty develop disease-resistant dogwoods for the nursery Industry
Three current Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology faculty, Dr. Trigiano, Dr. A. Windham, and Dr. M. Windham, are responsible for developing dogwood trees that are resistant to two different diseases. Read the full story here.
March 28, 2018
Ratnasri Mallipeddi – exit seminar
EPP graduate student Ratnasri Mallipeddi will present her exit seminar entitled “Characterization of the cellulolytic system in Zygentoma for identification of novel enzymes with industrial application” on Friday, April 6th, at 10am in PBB 160.
March 28, 2018
Nick Strange & Swati Mishra – proposal seminar
EPP graduate students Nick Strange and Swati Mishra will present their proposal seminars entitled “Pollinators and terpene chemistry of the rare sunflower Helianthus verticillatus” (NS) and “Mechanism of resistance to RNA-interference in Leptinotarsa decemlineata (Colorado potato beetle)” (SM) on Friday, March 23rd, at 10am in PBB 160.
March 11, 2018