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Beltwide 2023

13Jan

I gave a talk on my work with cotton fleahoppers at the Beltwide Cotton Conferences 2023 (Jan 10-12; New Orleans, LA), entitled “Effect of Moisture Treatment on Cotton Fleahopper Nymph Emergence from Woolly Croton”. Pictured at the conference with fellow graduate student Max Sturdivant (from Dr. Isakeit’s lab, PLPM), and former BESC student, Alexandra Crowder. Picture taken by Dr. Chappell, who also gave a talk at the conference, entitled “Interaction between Pathogenic and Saprophytic Growth of Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. vasinfectum“.

Jensen graduates

6Aug

Jensen becomes Dr. Jensen Hayter today. Congratulations!

Candidacy

13Dec

Manjari passed her PhD preliminary exam on Dec 13, advancing to candidacy.

Presenting at Entomology 2021

4Nov

I presented at Entomology 2021, the annual meeting of the Entomological Society of America (Oct 31-Nov 3; Denver, CO). Here’s a picture of me beside my poster, entitled “Phenology modeling of cotton fleahopper nymph emergence from woolly croton”. I placed second in the graduate poster competition in the Invasive Species and Vectors category.

Programming data loggers

22Jul

BURS scholar Charlie Hickman (working with graduate student Manjari) assembles and programs data loggers that will be deployed in the field for collecting data related to his work with cotton fleahoppers.

 

2021 PLPM Graduate poster symposium

21Apr

I presented some of my preliminary results related to cotton fleahoppers at the annual graduate poster symposium hosted by the department (PLPM, TAMU) on April 21, winning second place in the early career category. It was a great experience interacting with the other graduate students and getting to know more about their research.

Manjari’s work with artificial diets

26Jan

Here is a cool image of a cotton aphid feeding on colored artificial diet — I am excited to use this system to study vectoring mechanisms.

Manjari’s EPG work

12Dec

The following figures are from my poster entitled “Comparative electropenetrography of striped mealybug and cotton aphid on cotton,” presented at the 2020 conference of the Entomological Society of America.

Preliminary findings on feeding of striped mealybug and cotton aphid on cotton seedlings show characteristic waveform patterns of these two hemipterans.

 

 

Manjari Mukherjee

16Mar

I am a first year PhD student at Texas A&M University, having joined the Chappell lab in Spring 2020. I received my Bachelors degree from Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai (India), and have completed my Masters in Food Science from The Pennsylvania State University. 

My primary interests lie in studying vectored plant diseases through the interplay of inoculum quantification and transmission, and how stressors might influence these dynamics. To begin with, I have gotten started with cotton as a host, and intend on establishing vector colonies soon.

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