Month: May 2022
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Modeling thermoregulators
Working with Aaron Tarone of Texas A&M Entomology and members of his group, we have been developing insect phenology models that account for thermoregulatory behavior. These models are intended for use in predicting vector and pest dynamics, and in retrodicting events of forensic importance that can be indicated by insect development. We’re happy to have…
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Roy graduates
Roy L. Davis II becomes Graduate I, and departs from the department. Later, Dr. Davis looks back and reflects.
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Roy’s soilborne inoculum work
Roy spent plenty of time in the laboratory quantifying Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. vasinfectum (Fov) DNA from field soil, and some of his work is now reported in a Plant Disease publication: https://doi.org/10.1094/PDIS-08-21-1664-RE The work’s objective was to describe spatial variability in Fov inoculum density in the field, because that variation is hypothesized to affect…
