Fw: March Meeting for the CES

Lemmon lemmon at snet.net
Mon Apr 5 20:58:23 EDT 2004


Subject: March Meeting for the CES


431st Meeting of the Connecticut Entomological Society

Friday, April 23, 2004, 7:30 p.m.

Note:  This is the Annual meeting, Pot Luck Supper, and Silent Auction Event!

Jones Auditorium of the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, New Haven



Dr. Naomi Pierce, Harvard University 
"From herbivory to carnivory and back again: Life history evolution in the Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera)"
Dr. Pierce is the Hessel Professor of Biology in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University, where she is also Curator of Lepidoptera in the Museum of Comparative Zoology. She came to Harvard in 1990 after appointments as a Research Lecturer in the Department of Zoology at Oxford University and Assistant and Associate Professor at Princeton University.  Pierce was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship for her research, and she was cited in particular for her detailed analysis of insect/plant interactions.  Research in her laboratory continues to focus on species interactions using both model genetic and ecological systems.  In collaboration with Frederick Ausubel at Harvard Medical School, she has been analyzing genetic mechanisms and biochemical signaling pathways underlying three-way interactions between plants, pathogens and insects.  At the Museum of Comparative Zoology, her laboratory has been sequencing genes from butterflies in the family Lycaenidae (blues, coppers and hairstreaks).  The caterpillars of the majority of species in this large family have complex interactions with ants; Dr. Pierce and her students are reconstructing the evolutionary history of the group in order to understand how ant associations have shaped their diversification.  Pierce's research has taken her on a regular basis to locations around the world, including Australia, South Africa, Japan and Borneo.  Her field work has been somewhat curtailed since 1997 when she and her husband, science writer Andrew Berry, had twin daughters.
 

Directions
Take Route I-91 South to Exit 6 (Willow Rd. and Blatchley Ave.).  At the end of the ramp, turn right.  Go past the entrance to I-91 and turn right on Mitchell Rd.  Proceed past the high school and several intersections to Whitney Avenue.  Turn right, and proceed about 0.2 miles.  Look for the green sign for the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station.  Turn left on Huntington St.  The Experiment Station is near the top of the hill on the right.


Please bring a dish to pass for the Pot Luck Dinner.  

Also, Please bring materials for the silent auction!  If you have questions, contact Rich Cowles at richard.cowles at po.state.ct.us



Remaining meeting for this academic year: May 21,  Student mini-seminars, Univ. Connecticut, Storrs

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