Beetle fear, cannibalism, nasty plant toxins, and chocolate chip cookies with the Thaler Lab. 🏳️🌈
Cornell University
Joined April 2016
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Rumor has it that it was a great talk! Well done, Matt!
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All the folks in Vancouver for #EntSoc22, come see Matthew Barrett's talk "Eavesdropping on host-specific signals: Investigating how Acalymma vittatum colonization influences parasitoid behavior and performance" Wednesday 2:15-2:30 PM in P-IE: Biocontrol - Parasitoids
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All the folks in Vancouver for #EntSoc22, come see Matthew Barrett's talk "Eavesdropping on host-specific signals: Investigating how Acalymma vittatum colonization influences parasitoid behavior and performance" Wednesday 2:15-2:30 PM in P-IE: Biocontrol - Parasitoids
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We had two more talks of the @ToxicPlantLab that we hope you got to see - Julie David presented her work on "Soil legacy effects on crop disease resistance, pollinator diet quality and pollinator behavior" (Grad P-IE: Behavior, Biocontrol, and IPM)
And Laura Martinez (@EntoMontinez) talked about "Synthetic pheromone from a generalist predator (Podisus maculiventris) elicits non-consumptive effects on prey and impacts yield of solanaceous crops in upstate New York" (Grad P-IE: Biocontrol 1)
Postdoc position open at Cornell to develop chemical ecology tools and host plant resistance for pest management in corn and other northeastern crops. See description at: blogs.cornell.edu/thaler/new…. Please apply and retweet! @NYSIPM
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How do parental effects in a beetle shape the evolution of prey responses to predators? Find out in our new hot off the press @AmNat article! doi.org/10.1086/712341.
Fun collaboration @ToxicPlantLab & @anuragasclepias
Submit your predator-prey chemical ecology paper!
📣📢🗣️Calling all Predator-Prey Chemical Ecologists!!! The Journal of Chemical Ecology is soliciting papers for a special focus issue on The Chemical Ecology of Predator-Prey Interactions!! Consider submitting relevant work!
more info: tinyurl.com/y537am63
Cornell's Insect Ecology class had fun measuring predator-pollinator interactions @DilmunHill with @buprestibae and @kimotecontrol
Using a synthetic predator pheromone protects plants from crop pests more consistently than using live predator pheromones!
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Announcing Dr. Getman-Pickering! @Herbivory1 successfully defended her amazing dissertation today! During her time at Cornell Zoe completed multiple scientific, artistic and culinary masterpieces. We are excited to see what she does next with Martha Weiss and John Lill @gwbiology
We are proud to announce that our incredible undergraduate researcher Abby Dittmar accepted a PhD position with the amazing Nora Underwood at FSU!! 🥳🥳🥳
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Loving the new #EntoArt in the lobby of Comstock Hall at @Cornell by the amazing @Herbivory1 Visit @cornellento & @InsectsCornell to check it out!
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Happy to see the online version out from sabbatical experiments at @niooknaw. Transferring rhizosphere microbes across plant species increases resistance to leaf-feeding insects.
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One of the best parts of the predator-prey #GRC is meeting new people and of course seeing old friends! I especially loved getting to spend so much time catching up with @ToxicPlantLab this week! And I got to debut some fun monarch work using the #betterposter design ;)
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Congratulations to Rachel Norris for successfully defending her master's thesis on aphid responses to predator footprints! A great combination of behavior and chemical ecology research. Stay tuned for a publication on this work later this year! @UCRentomology
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I am thrilled to announce that our methods paper on LeafByte has officially been published! Its open access.
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@JulieK_Davis, @10secrule, @ToxicPlantLab, @NickAflitto
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In other news, #Passiflora strangle #Heliconius. The caterpillar was moulting when the plant attacked.
Congratulations to the fantastic Thundergrad Christina Zhao @chaoticzhao for just getting a $1000 grant! She will use it to analyze alkaloid concentrations in mycorrhizae associated and not associated solanaceous plants.