Student Sponsored Seminar Speaker - Popenoe Invited Speaker

Each year the graduate students in the department select and sponsor a guest speaker. This greatly enhances the seminar series, but specifically brings in a speaker of interest to the students.

Nicholas Buchon

The speaker selected for 2019 was Dr. Nicholas Buchon (pictured right), an associate Professor in the Department of Entomology at Cornell University. Dr. Buchon's research program focuses on the crosstalk between infection and host physiology. Specifically his lab uses genomic and genetic approaches to investigate the impact of pathogens and microbiota on body homeostasis in insects. His seminar, entitled "From Pathogen to microbiota: How gut microbes interact with their host," took place on May 7th at 4:00 pm in Waters Hall room 231.





Previous Popenoe Speakers

Year Speaker Affiliation
2005 Dr. Robert Hall University of Missouri
2007 Dr. David Andow University of Minnesota
2011 Dr. Roger Gold Texas A&M University
2012 Dr. Ralph E. Williams Purdue University
2013 Dr. Alex Wild Urbana, Illinois
2014 Dr. Yong-Lak Park West Virginia University
2015 Dr. Diane Debinski Iowa State University
2016 Dr. Renata Bolognesi Monsanto
2017 Dr. Jonathan Lundgren Ecdysis Foundation
2018 Dr. Blair D. Siegfried University of Florida
2019 Dr. Nicholas Buchon Cornell University