Connecticut State The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station

Lockwood Lectures

 
2018
CANCELED--Friday, October 12, 2018--Nanotechnology and Bacterial Disease Suppression in Florida Tomatoes, Dr. Mathews Paret, Associate Professor, Plant Pathology, University of Florida, North Florida Research and Education Center, Quincy, FL

2017
Monday, November 13, 2017--Exploiting Chemical Ecology and Plant Signaling for Developing a Push-Pull Strategy for Africa and Beyond,  Dr. Zeyuar R. Khan, Principal Scientist, International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology, Nairobi, Kenya and Adjunct Professor, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY    
Tuesday, October 17, 2017--Prions: Environmental Contamination and Disease Transmission, Prof. Joel A. Pedersen, Departments of Soil Science, Civil & Environmental Engineering, and Chemistry, Environmental Chemistry and Technology Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Tuesday, June 13, 2017--Engineering Nanomaterial Properties for Applications in Agriculture, Gregory Lowry, PhD Walter J. Blenko, Sr. Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA  
Tuesday, April 4, 2017--The Greening of the Arctic: How Shrubs Are Changing the Tundra, Jennie R. McLaren, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Texas at El Paso
Friday, March 24, 2017--Advances in Genomic Technology, Shrikant M. Mane, PhD, Director, MBB Keck Biotech Laboratory, Director, Yale Center for Genome Analysis
Friday, February 17, 2017--Nanotechnology to the Rescue: A chemical free, antimicrobial platform using Engineered Water Nanostructures, Philip Demokritou, PhD, Director, Harvard-NIEHS Nanosafety Research Center
Friday, February 3, 2017--Quantifying Uncertainty in Ecosystem Studies: Why it's Worth Facing our Fears, Dr. Ruth D. Yanai, Director, Graduate School Program in Environmental Science, State University of New York, College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY-ESF) 
 

2016
Monday, October 3, 2016--Using natural variation in tomato to understand and improve the plant immune system, Dr. Gregory Martin, Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research and Cornell University
Thursday, May 19, 2016--The Whiskey Fungus: Systematics and Biology, Dr. James Scott, Associate Professor and Head, Division of Occupational & Environmental Health, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Wednesday, April 6, 2016--The Evolution of Nature in Cities: Sanitary to Sustainable to Sacred, Dr. Kathleen Wolf, Research Social Scientist, College of Environment, University of Washington, Seattle

2015
Friday, June 5, 2015-- When organics interact with particles: The case of nanopesticides, Dr. Melanie Kah, Department for Environmental Geosciences, University of Vienna, Austria
 
Wednesday, April 29, 2015--The Natural History Gap and the Citizen, Sam Droege, USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, U.S. Geologic Survey, U.S. Department of the Interior, Laurel, MD

2012
Wednesday, May 23, 2012-- Beech Bark Disease: Biology, Ecology, and Forest Response, Dr. David R. Houston
Tuesday, April 3, 2012-- SILVA-a forest stand analysis and prescription protocol, Dr. Gary W. Miller

2011
Friday, May 6, 2011-- Seeing the Forest and the Trees, Dr. Jeanne Romero-Severson

2010
Monday, October 25, 2010-- Molecular tracking of airborne inoculum: impact on grape disease management, Dr. Odile Carisse 

2009
Wednesday, April 15, 2009-- Lineage-specific chromosomes related to pathogenicity revealed by Fusarium comparative genomics , Dr. Li-Jun Ma 

2008
Thursday, December 4, 2008-- Current Research on Citrus Canker, Bacterial Spot of Tomato and Pepper, and Bacterial Wilt , Dr. Jeffrey B. Jones 
Monday, December 8, 2008-- Winter Moth Invasion of New England , Dr. Joseph S. Elkinton