ESA Annual Meetings Online Program

Employers Speak Out About Professional Opportunities in Entomology; Identifying and Clarifying Career Paths for Graduate Students

Wednesday, November 16, 2011: 8:00 AM-11:20 AM
Room A10, First Floor (Reno-Sparks Convention Center)
Organizers:
Deane Zahn
Alec Gerry
Kimberly Skyrm
8:00 AM
Welcoming Remarks
8:05 AM
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Where do students end up and what do they want to do?
Deane K. Zahn, University of California, Riverside
8:20 AM
1388
Launching and running a profitable private company: funding leading edge research to commercialize disruptive products
Agenor Mafra-Neto, ISCA Technologies, Inc.
8:35 AM
1389
Working for industry as a field entomologist
Melissa Willrich Siebert, Dow AgroSciences
8:50 AM
1390
Entomology with a global perspective- making a difference and serving your country as an Army entomologist
Scott Gordon, Armed Forces Pest Management Board
9:05 AM
1391
Entomology careers in cooperative extension: the interface of academia and society
Eric T. Natwick, University of California
9:20 AM
Break
9:35 AM
1392
Curating and managing national collections
Floyd W. Shockley, University of Georgia
9:50 AM
1393
Somewhere over the rainbow: opportunities for careers at USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture
Mary Purcell-Miramontes, United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)
10:05 AM
1394
Working for industry—what can you expect? Perspectives of a former academic entomologist now in the corporate world
Marlin E. Rice, Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.
10:20 AM
1395
Entomology in academia; balancing teaching, research, and community engagement
Alec Gerry, University of California
10:35 AM
1396
Entomological careers in the USDA, Agricultural Research Service
Victoria Y. Yokoyama, USDA - ARS
10:50 AM
1397
Independent contract research laboratories - small fish in a big pond
William A. Donahue, Sierra Research Laboratories
11:05 AM
1398
Public health and entomology: career opportunities
Vicki Kramer, California Department of Public Health
11:20 AM
Concluding Remarks
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