UW-Madison Department of Entomology
We are proud to share that Pr. Christelle Guédot has received the CALS Community Builder Award and has also been promoted to Full Professor. These achievements reflect her outstanding leadership, dedication to mentorship, and commitment to fostering a strong and supportive academic community. Pr. Guédot’s contributions to research, teaching, and service continue to make a …
The Guédot Fruit Crop Entomology Lab was pleased to contribute to the organization of two symposia at recent Entomological Society of America meetings, highlighting the lab’s engagement in interdisciplinary and applied research in agricultural entomology. The first symposium, “Microbial Hitchhikers: Microbe-Mediated Insect–Plant Interactions in Agricultural Systems,” was held during the ESA Annual Meeting in Portland, …
Congratulations to Emilie Parkanzky on receiving the 2026 CALS Graduate Service and Outreach Award! This award recognizes Emilie’s outstanding commitment to service, outreach, and engagement beyond her graduate research. As an M.S. student in the Guédot Lab, Emilie has contributed to fruit crop entomology research while also helping share science with broader audiences through outreach …
Congratulations to Sophie Perry on receiving 2nd place in the Graduate Poster Competition at the Entomological Society of America Annual Meeting in Portland, Oregon. Sophie was recognized in the P-IE: Behavior and Chemical Ecology category for her poster, “Assessing damage by borer pests on the marketability of hemp in the Upper Midwest.” This award highlights …
On Wednesday July 23 the lab went to a Madison staple, Concert on the Square. Not all of us could make it but we brought friends and family to make up the difference! The lab shared pizza and ice cream, and enjoyed the covers of Pink Floyd songs performed by the Madison Chamber Orchestra. We …
As an entomologist and horticulturalist, master’s student Jarret Miles-Kroening appropriately taglined his thesis public defense “Come for the berries, stay for the hoverflies!” On June 28 at 1:30 pm Jarret recounted the immense work he has done for his master’s thesis over the last two years to investigate how different types of mulches affect the …
The lab is currently celebrating the success of Mitchell Lannan, who recently defended his thesis on an attract and kill strategy for Japanese beetle management. Mitchell’s work demonstrated that by using pheromones to concentrate beetle populations before insecticide applications, grape growers can reduce their insecticide inputs by 97% while maintaining a similar level of Japanese …
We are excited to welcome new MS student, Mitchell Lannan, to the Fruit Crop team! He will be focusing on Attract-and-Kill strategies for managing the invasive Japanese Beetle in Wisconsin vineyards. We expect grape things from him! Check out his page here.
We are pleased to announce that Samuel DeGrey has officially submitted his thesis on the population genetics of cold-tolerance in Drosophila suzukii. While we are sad to see our friend and colleague move on, we know that he has an amazing career ahead of him. So here’s to you, congratulations Samuel!
Happy August from the Guédot Lab! Here is an update from the raspberry fields provided by our PhD student Hanna McIntosh: This has been a strange start to the field season with university shutdowns due to COVID-19 and the acceleration of movements for racial justice after the murder of George Floyd. In the midst …