27 Mar 2025

Congrats to our friend Dr. Andrew Mann in the Blanchette lab on his PhD defense today! And a nice touch honouring the work of our lab group on eastern larch beetle with the name of a newly discovered beetle-associated fungus. Cool!

24 Mar 2025

Jess is away this week, processing samples of spruce budworm at the University of Ottawa's stable isotope laboratory on a collaborative dispersal project with Felipe Dargent and Clement Bataille.

20 Mar 2025

Brian gave a talk to the Midwest-Northeast State Forestry Alliance meeting in downtown Minneapolis. The work that state forest health leads perform in monitoring and managing our forests is critical and appreciated!

14 Mar 2025

Tims Tams are still intact. Still light traffic in lab. There is no one around this morning except me and a math puzzle: if I had brought a pie to celebrate pi day, what would have been the denominator for sharing?

13 Mar 2025

Four exclamation marks on alumna Grace Haynes' text, "I got the job!!!!" Cheering on former students never gets old. We look forward to seeing you back in the Twin Cities in the forest health scene soon, Grace!

11 Mar 2025

Val is back from Australia, helping sort some awesome old reprints. She brought Tim Tams to share but most students are out for Spring Break (research in the Black Hills, visiting family, etc.). This is going to be a very challenging week.

10 Mar 2025

Alumnus Derek Rosenberger is back in town for a bee identification workshop and dropped by the lab. I am so impressed by the work he is doing in measuring effective pedagogy and how he involves undergrads in his research.

9 Mar 2025

Field season has begun with Ella in the Black Hills for a week. She will be revisiting lightning-struck trees while her earnest furry four-legged coworker Sasha will be keeping track of nemeses. Every. Single. One.

25 Feb 2025

Clarissa, Emma, Sayesha and Brian are off to Annapolis, Maryland for the week to present work and meet colleagues at the USDA Interagency Forum on Invasive Species.

16 Feb 2025

Congrats to Emily, who has published the pheromone components of eastern larch beetle with our collaborator Brian Sullivan of the US Forest Service. Electroantennograms never cease to amaze.

30 Jan 2025

Research just proved that parents have a favourite child. So do advisors have a fav. student? Today it's alumna Grace, who sent Chugach Chocolate bars with a bound copy of her thesis. Kelp and cayenne is surprisingly good.

27 Jan 2025

Sometimes there is a stigma when people leave science, but we celebrated with Talia today. She can do science with the best of them, but her heart is in helping adults with disabilities. There are so many ways to make the world a better place!

13 Jan 2025

Congrats to our Alaskan alumna, Grace, who just accepted a job with the forest health team in the Alaskan Division of Forestry and Fire Protection! We're so proud of her!

15 Dec 2024

Our collaborative work on the chemical communication systems of eastern larch beetle with Brian Sullivan and Emily Althoff has made the front page of the weekend edition of the Minnesota Star Tribune.

2 Dec 2024

Congrats to Rose, for her first ever scientific paper! Rose and our friends Brytten and Erika screened several species of larch for suitability to eastern larch beetle. The results are a tad worrisome.

13 Nov 2024

Brian, Ella, and Sayesha are in Duluth through Thursday, meeting with colleagues and giving presentations at the Upper Midwest Invasive Species Conference.