[Plantsci] FW: Herbarium Lunch, Thursday 10/27

[Garcia, Jennifer Jene - (jennyj)]

From: Mcmahon, Michelle M - (mcmahonm) <mcmahonm at arizona.edu<mailto:mcmahonm at arizona.edu>>
Date: Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 8:28 PM
To: ua_herbarium at list.arizona.edu<mailto:ua_herbarium at list.arizona.edu> <ua_herbarium at list.arizona.edu<mailto:ua_herbarium at list.arizona.edu>>
Subject: Herbarium Lunch, Thursday 10/27
Hi folks - please join us for this week's interesting talk!

Jay Goldberg
will present
Hungry hungry caterpillars: hawkmoths, hornworms and host-plant interactions

Abstract:
                Many people are familiar with the Carolina hawkmoth/tobacco hornworm (Manduca sexta) - a widespread and locally common pest of plants in the nightshade family (Solanaceae) - but this species is only a single member of a speciose lepidopteran genus. Manduca contains over 60 member species across North, Central, and South America - including the Caribbean, Galapagos, and Hawaii. These species have varied, but close relationships with their larval host plants and many closely related caterpillar species feed on a handful of closely related plants. In the first half of this talk, I will survey the diversity of this charismatic lepidopteran genus with a focus on their larval host plants. In the second half I will discuss my work assembling/annotating 5 de novo Manduca genomes to better understand the genetic underpinnings of some species' striking association with Solanaceous host plants.

Speaker Bio:
                Jay is an NSF-funded postdoc in Mike Barker and Judie Bronstein's labs in the EEB department. He studies co-evolution between Datura sp. plants and the specialist herbivores that feed on them. He did his PhD on the evolutionary biology of glandular trichomes in Datura wrightii at Indiana University in the lab of Prof Lynda Delph. Before starting graduate school he did a post-bacc internship at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, studying interactions between wild tobacco, herbivores, and predatory insects in the Great Basin Desert of Utah - which is how he got introduced to the field of plant-insect interactions.

Thursday, 10/27, 12 noon, UA Herbarium (Herring Hall).

For our full schedule, please visit this page<https://cals.arizona.edu/herbarium/content/herbarium-lunch-talks>, and please feel free to contact us about any aspect of plant biodiversity!
herbarium at cals.arizona.edu<mailto:herbarium at cals.arizona.edu>

Best,
Shelley

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Shelley McMahon
Associate Professor of Practice
Director, UA Herbarium<https://ag.arizona.edu/herbarium/>
Director, Desert Legume Program<https://cals.arizona.edu/desertlegumeprogram/>
School of Plant Sciences<https://cals.arizona.edu/spls/home>
University of Arizona
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