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Member Symposium

From Rum Stills to Cotton Gins and Head Lettuce to Head Lice: The Remarkable Development of Spinosad for All

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The symposium explores how individuals, with a passion to change the world, can break down barriers and challenge current ways of thinking. Spinosad shifted how the industry saw crop protection biologicals/organics, impacted our thinking of resistance management, and opened new opportunities for biologicals/organics in agricultural and non-agricultural settings.

Presentations:

  • Introductory remarks

    Presenting Author: Marc L. Fisher (he/him/his) – Corteva Agriscience

  • Gary Thompson and spinosad: A tribute to a life-long innovator

    Presenting Author: Luis Enrique Gomez – Corteva Agrisciences

    Co-Author: Melissa Willrich Siebert – Corteva Agriscience

  • Spinosad: Revolutionary change for integrated pest management

    Presenting Author: Mike Lees – Corteva Agriscience

    Co-Author: Brian Bret – Corteva Agriscience

  • Spinosad: Another defining moment for the IR-4 Project

    Presenting Author: Venkat Pedibhotla

    Co-Author: Keith Dorschner – Retired, IR4 Project

    Co-Author: Van Starner – IR-4

    Co-Author: Daniel Kunkel – IR-4

    Co-Author: Jerry Baron – IR-4

  • IRAC and its impact on agriculture: Fighting the good fight against insect resistance

    Presenting Author: Graham P. Head – Bayer U.S. - Crop Science

  • How spinosad changed the landscape of public health mosquito control

    Presenting Author: J. Lyell Clarke – The Clarke Group

    Co-Author: Kevin Magro – Clarke

    Co-Author: David McLaughlin – Clarke

  • Why 3 out of 5 pediatricians in America prescribe spinosad

    Presenting Author: Patrick O'Shea – University of Notre Dame

    Co-Author: Bill Culpepper – ParaPRO LLC

  • From root to fruit – 20 years of success story of organic fruit fly control

    Presenting Author: Pedro Alfonso Rendon – USDA-APHIS

    Co-Author: Luis Enrique Gomez – Corteva Agrisciences

    Co-Author: Eswin Castaneda-Orellana – Corteva Agriscience

  • Realized and unrealized roles of spinosyns in U.S. cotton production

    Presenting Author: David L. Kerns – Texas A&M University

  • How spinosad success-fully transform-ed insect management in leafy vegetables

    Presenting Author: John C. Palumbo – University of Arizona

    Co-Author: Jesse M. Richardson – Corteva Agriscience

  • Spinosads as foundation for thrips management in Med basin

    Presenting Author: Pablo Bielza

  • Spinosads as seed treatments for early season pest management

    Presenting Author: Alan Taylor – Cornell AgriTech

    Co-Author: Brian Nault – Cornell University

  • Closing remarks - Gary Thompson: A legacy of persistence and creative thinking

    Presenting Author: Amanda Jacobson – Corteva Agriscience