Category: Manjari Mukherjee
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Beltwide 2023
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.…
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DIY EPG
We received good news that Manjari requires more space for her EPG work, so the group made another Faraday cage.
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Learning About EPG
Manjari explaining the basic principles of EPG to Maggie.
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2022 Graduate Research Showcase
Roy, Jensen, Manjari, and Tim all presented posters of their research at the 2022 PLPM Graduate Research Showcase.
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Candidacy
Manjari passed her PhD preliminary exam on Dec 13, advancing to candidacy.
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Presenting at Entomology 2021
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.
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Programming data loggers
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.
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2021 PLPM Graduate poster symposium
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.
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Spore Counting
For her project Maggie is counting spores under the microscope. Manjari taught her how to calculate spore concentrations based on the hemocytometer counts.
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Manjari’s work with artificial diets
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.
