3: Learning chemical ecology from Pete Landolt: Let's identify a sex pheromone for pear psylla

Tuesday, November 17, 2020

2:00 PM - 2:15 PM EST

Presenting Author(s)

Christelle Guedot

University of Wisconsin
Monona, Wisconsin

Co-Author(s)

JM

Jocelyn Millar

University Of California
Riverside, California
DH

David Horton

USDA-ARS
PL

Peter Landolt

USDA-ARS (Wapato, WA)
Wapato, Washington

Peter Landolt was my postdoc supervisor who taught me chemical ecology. Pete passed on to me a deep appreciation and fascination for social wasps which I continue to cultivate in my current research. The work we did on pear psylla was very challenging and yet was so rewarding, and Pete's support was invaluable to identifying a sex pheromone for pear psylla. The most important lesson I learned from Pete was to be assertive and confident (though I am still learning to do that!)