Sharing Our Research
Where you can find us next:
Annual Meeting for the Canadian Society of Ecology and Evolution (CSEE)
May 2024 – Vancouver, BC
International Society of Chemical Ecology (ISCE) Annual Meeting
July 2024 – Prague, Czech Republic
Past Conferences, Meetings, and Presentations:
Oral Presentations:
- The effects of volatile tree emissions on detection of host lodgepole pine by mountain pine beetle. Madelyn O’Hara (Cooke Lab)
Poster Presentations:
- Characterizing genes that influence host quality of lodgepole pine to mountain pine beetle. Raymond Kwok (Cooke Lab)
- Morphological and dendrochronological traits distinguishing MPB-resilient and MPB-susceptible lodgepole pine families. Lucas Iwamoto Feitosa (Cooke Lab)
Oral Presentations:
- Using Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis as a Method to Address Mountain Pine Beetle Management. Emma Neale (Schott Lab)
- Recovery of Ecosystems and Ecoservices Following a Mountain Pine Beetle Epidemic. Caroline Grela (Cullingham Lab)
- Using the Mountain Pine Beetle System to Demonstrate the use of Genomics to Understand Risk and Resiliency of Forests. Dr. Catherine Cullingham
fRI Research Federal-provincial Mountain Pine Beetle Research Forum
October 24-26, 2023 – Edmonton, Alberta
Oral Presentations:
- Modelling eastern spread risk of mountain pine beetle using host genetic ancestry. Dr. Catherine Cullingham
- The physiological costs and consequences of overwintering in mountain pine beetle. Dr. Heath MacMillan
- Modelling long-term dynamics of MPB in Alberta under climate change. Dr. Mark Lewis
- Assessment of eastern spread risk of MPB through studies on beetle dispersal. Dr. Maya Evenden
Poster Presentations:
- Living in a lonely world: Population phase-dependent dispersal of mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae Hopkins). Dr. Antonia Musso (Evenden Lab)
- Enhanced receptivity of beetles to host semiochemicals. Leanne Petro (Evenden Lab)
TRIA-FoR Annual General Meeting
August 22-25, 2023
University of Alberta