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TENNESSEE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY
46th Annual Conference
October 17-18, 2019
Pavillion Building at the Agricultural Research & Education Center at the Tennessee State University Campus Farm.
1675 Ed Temple Blvd., Nashville, TN
You are invited to attend the Forty-sixth Annual Conference of the Tennessee Entomological Society to be held on October 17 & 18, 2019 in Pavillion Building at the Agricultural Research & Education Center at the Tennessee State University Campus Farm located at 1675 Ed Temple Blvd., Nashville, TN 37208. The meeting will convene in the Pavillion Bldg. on Thursday, October 17th at 1:00 p.m. and will continue on Friday, October 18 at 9 a.m. Free parking will be available near the Pavillion Building.
Conference registration will be from 12:30 – 1:00 p.m. on Thursday and 8:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. Friday. Please bring two copies of the completed registration form to the meeting. Registration fee is $30 for regular members and nonmembers, and $5 for students (including student membership dues). Membership dues for regular members are $10 and dues for sustaining/corporate members are $50. Also, there will be a vendor fee of $25.
The
meeting kicks off at 1:00 p.m. on Thursday, October 17th, followed by the keynote address, Building Plant-Pollinator Communities, by Dr. Laura Russo of the University of Tennessee Entomology and Plant Pathology Department. This
exciting presentation will discuss her research on the importance of diverse
communities of pollinating insects, the services they provide, and how we can protect
them. She will also discuss what we know about constructing communities of
pollinators through floral resource provisioning, and how these communities
respond to perturbations.
Laura
Russo is an assistant professor in the University of Tennessee’s Department of
Entomology and Plant Pathology. She earned her PhD at Penn State in the lab of
Kat Shea, a theoretical ecologist. She subsequently held a postdoctoral
position with Bryan Danforth at Cornell on pollination services from
communities of wild bees in New York apple orchards. And, she’s conducted
international research in Ireland as part of a Marie Curie Sklodowska
postdoctoral fellowship with Jane Stout, in Kenya as part of the Save the
Elephants program and in Australia at the University of Queensland. Her
research focuses on win-win scenarios between conservation and agriculture,
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The student paper competition will follow the keynote speaker and, should time allow, papers by non-students will follow. Dinner and hospitality plans for the evening will be announced at the close of the afternoon session.
The meeting will resume on Friday at 9 a.m. with a presentation of the Entomology Week Proclamation followed by the annual business meeting when will announce the student paper award winners and distribute the checks. Following the business meeting the remaining non-student papers will be presented. Exact times of talks will be posted on this page prior to the meeting.
We
are not designating an official hotel for meeting particpants, however,
Nashville has a wide assortment of hotels to choose from. The TES Local Arrangements Chair will be providing more information on hotels in the near future.
Membership is open to everyone interested in entomology - whether you are employed with a federal or state agency, public or private college or university, industry, or private business - whether you are a researcher, regulator, teacher, student or just interested in insects - whether you are a professional or amateaur entomologist. We extend to you an invitation to join the Tennessee Entomological Society. We are a group truly interested in all phases of entomology.
The call for papers is linked here and below. To use the fillable pdf, download the file first and then complete. For more information, contact the TES Program Chair, Karla Addesso, at kaddesso@tnstate.edu, or the TES President, David Cook, at dcook5@utk.edu with any concerns or questions.
Please
be aware that we have some activities planned prior to the start of the TES
meeting that are open to the public and campus community. Please come and
participate in these events if you are able.
10:00
AM - Gene Armstrong, President of the Nashville Area Beekeepers Association,
will give a presentation about keeping honey bees.
10:30
AM - Mr. Armstrong will demonstrate his 'observational hive' where the audience
can see honey bees in action.
11:00
AM - Buzz Evans will conduct a honey tasting with honeys made from different
types of floral resources.
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