Jarrad Prasifka

John Henry Comstock Award Winner
2002 ESA Annual Meeting
Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Bobb Gorena
First Place Student Competition Ph.D. Poster Category 50th Annual Meeting, Southwestern Branch, Guanajuato, Mexico

“Correlates of greenbug biotypic virulence on sorghum.”

Mei-Er Chen First Place
5th Annual Graduate Student Forum

“Cloning of the Fire Ant, Solenopsis invicta, Vitellogenin Receptor cDNA and its Transcriptional Expression Profile in Reproductive Females during Development.”

Steve Holmes

Second Place
5th Annual Graduate Student Forum

“Functional Analysis of a G Protein-Coupled Receptor from the Southern Cattle Tick Boophilus microplus (Acari: Ixodidae) Identifies it as the First Arthropod Myokinin Receptor.”

Christine Gray
Third Place
5th Annual Graduate Student Forum

“Identification of an Endogenous Insulator for Aedes aegypti Lin. Transgenesis.”

This award is given to the student who shows the most extensive knowledge of insect families.

2002-2003 Linnaean Games National Champions

Walker Hale (Captain), Mark Johnsen, Matt Yoder, Marcia Trostle (Not pictured), and Doug Stevenson (alternate)

Coached by Dr. Marvin Harris, Dr. Jim Woolley, and Bobb Gorena