Cornell IPM Academic Seminars
Join Cornell Integrated Pest Management at Cornell University for our monthly seminar series designed to increase awareness of new research and techniques that advance Integrated Pest Management (IPM) and its adoption in all types of pest management settings.
Spring seminar series
Our seminar series will begin again in the spring. You can find recordings of past seminars below.
Past Seminars
2026 Cornell IPM Academic Seminars
- Insects in a Changing World: Navigating Human-Dominated Ecosystems and Their Challenges (Recording available)
Speaker: Joan Casanelles Abella - Manure matters: Dung ecology and pasture insect management (Recording available)
Speaker: Bryony Sands - Bio-Innovation vs. Biological Chaos: CRISPR, AI & RNAi for Vector–Virus Control
Speaker: Kiran Gadhave
2025 Cornell IPM Academic Seminars
- Allies Against an Invasive: Interactions Between Spotted Lanternflies and Native Species (Recording available)
Speaker: Anne Johnson - Machine learning vision for insect monitoring and site-specific management (Recording available)
Speaker: Ivan Grijalva - IPM, Pesticides, and Risk: Musing on Messaging (Recording available)
Speaker: Dan Wixted - The threat posed by ‘inert’ ingredients to bees (Recording available)
Speaker: Dr. Edward Straw, Trinity College Dublin - Vacant land as an environmental resource for conservation and community building
Speaker: Dr. Mary M. Gardiner, Ohio State University - In Pursuit of Prevention: NYSDOH Tick and Tick-borne Disease Surveillance and Research Updates from the Lab and Field (Recording Available)
Speaker: Melissa Prusinski, NYSDOH Bureau of Communicable Disease Control
2024 Cornell IPM Seminars
- Neighborhood Rat Reduction in New York City (Recording available)
Speaker: Caroline Bragdon - Beech Leaf Disease: Can IPM save our native and ornamental beech trees? (Recording available)
Speaker: Dr. Margery Daughtrey - RNA-based biopesticides
Speaker: Lindsy Iglesias - Brawling weeds and the fight for crop survival (Recording available)
Speaker: Clarence Swanton - ‘But it Didn’t Happen’—The Role of the Borlaug Global Rust Initiative and the Wheat Diseases Early Warning and Advisory Systems in Preventing Ug99 Epidemics.
Speaker: Dr. Maricelis Acevedo - Finding the needle in the haystack: Environmental DNA (eDNA) and its role in detecting and managing pest insects (video)
Speaker: Dr. Julie Lockwood - Neonicotinoid seed treatments in field crops: the pros and cons of insurance pest management
Speaker: Dr. Christian Krupke - Integrated Pest Management in Cities and Suburbs: Can cultural controls and diversification create more pest-resistant and equitable landscapes and conserve non-target species?
Speaker: Dr. Karin Burghardt - What’s all the Buzz about IPM? (video)
Speaker: Janet A. Hurley, ACE, MPA, Senior Extension Program Specialist IPM, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service
2023 Cornell IPM Academic Seminars
- Searching for Sustainable Weed Management Solutions for Long Island (Video)
Andy Senesac, Ph.D
Cornell Cooperative Extension of Suffolk County (Retired) - Physical control methods for cyclamen mite (Video)
Justin Renkema, PhD
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada - Herbicide resistance in agriculture: what’s left to uncover? (Video)
Caio Brunharo, PhD
Pennsylvania State University - Integrated Pest Management for Bed Bugs: What is New? (Video)
Alvaro Romero, PhD
New Mexico State University
2022 Cornell IPM Academic Seminars
- Advancements in non-chemical control of intra-row weeds (video)
Margaret McCollough
Margaret McCollough discusses her ongoing research to identify improved non-chemical management strategies for targeting weeds in the intra-row zone using cultural, physical, and preventative methods. - Better Common Names Project and Spongy Moth (video)
Joe Rominiecki
Names matter. The notorious gypsy moth (Lymantria dispar) has a new name; it is now spongy moth. This new name was not selected lightly. The Entomological Society of America has been forward-thinking to address the common names of insects that have been hurtful to groups of people and quick to develop a process to make these changes. - Hummingbird Predation as an IPM Tactic Against Spotted-Wing Drosophila (video)
Juliet Carroll
Hummingbirds require arthropods in their diet and may consume 2000 small insects per day when fledging young. In New York State, we investigated the use of feeders to attract Ruby-throated Hummingbirds into raspberry fields to encourage predation of spotted-wing Drosophila (SWD) with the goal of reducing fly populations and fruit infestation.