Student Sponsored Popenoe Invited Speaker Seminar
Each year, the Popenoe Entomology Club selects and sponsors a guest speaker. Usually aligning with annual Mudge Week festivities, this greatly enhances the seminar series, but specifically brings in a speaker of interest to the students.
May Berenbaum
Chosed, invited and organized by Popenoe Entomology Club members
Recent Popenoe Speakers

Rachel Wilkins,
2023, State Entomologist and M.S. Alum (2020)
- Kansas Department of Agriculture
- rachel.wilkins@ks.gov

Zain Syed
2022, Signals, Reception and Perception
- Associate Professor of Biology, University of Kentucky
- zainulabeuddin.syed@uky.edu

Dr. Nicholas Buchon
2019, impact of pathogens and the microbiota on body homeostasis
- Associate Professor, Department of Entomology, Cornell University
- nicolas.buchon@cornell.edu
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2018: Dr. Blair D. Siegfried, University of Florida
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2017: Dr. Jonathan Lundgren, Ecdysis Foundation
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2016: Dr. Renata Bolognesi, Monsanto
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2015: Dr. Diane Debinski, Iowa State University
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2014: Dr. Yong-Lak Park, West Virginia University
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2013: Dr. Alex Wild, Urbana, Illinois
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2012: Dr. Ralph E. Williams, Purdue University
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2011: Dr. Roger Gold, Texas A&M University
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2007: Dr. David Andow, University of Minnesota
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2005: Dr. Robert Hall, University of Missouri
