Karla M. Addesso

Professor and Research Center Director
Tennessee State University
McMinnville, Tennessee

Name Pronunciation: Car-la Ah-dess-oh

Presentation(s):

• Decoding cultivar susceptibility: Aphid performance and plant defense traits in crape myrtles

  Sunday, November 9, 2025
  8:48 AM - 9:00 AM Pacific

• Developing the leader in you

  Sunday, November 9, 2025
  1:35 PM - 1:50 PM Pacific

• Aphid attraction by aroma: The chemical ecology of crapemyrtle (Lagerstroemia spp.) and crapemyrtle aphid (Tinocallis kahawaluokalani)

  Monday, November 10, 2025
  10:30 AM - 10:42 AM Pacific

• Undergrad 10-min Competition: SysEB, Behavior and Biodiversity

  Monday, November 10, 2025
  10:30 AM - 12:45 PM Pacific

• D3461: Ecological Interactions between pests and natural enemies in field and container-grown crapemyrtle cultivars

  Tuesday, November 11, 2025
  9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Pacific

• Flatheaded Borers in Specialty Crops: Lessons Learned and the Challenges Ahead

  Wednesday, November 12, 2025
  9:30 AM - 12:30 PM Pacific

• Introductory remarks

  Wednesday, November 12, 2025
  9:30 AM - 9:35 AM Pacific

• Molecular phylogeny of selected North American Chrysobothris species (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) inferred from assembled mitochondrial genomes

  Wednesday, November 12, 2025
  9:35 AM - 9:50 AM Pacific

• Unraveling host selection in Chrysobothris: Stress cues, cultivar resistance, and future directions in buprestid ecology

  Wednesday, November 12, 2025
  9:50 AM - 10:05 AM Pacific

• SD64: Trap development for targeting Chrysobothris spp.

  Wednesday, November 12, 2025
  10:20 AM - 10:30 AM Pacific

• SD65: The genus Chrysobothris: Future research directions

  Wednesday, November 12, 2025
  10:20 AM - 10:30 AM Pacific

• Irrigation and cover cropping as cultural management practices for prevention of Chrysobothris damage in nursery fields

  Wednesday, November 12, 2025
  10:30 AM - 10:45 AM Pacific

• Comparing monitoring traps and experimental lures for the surveying of Chrysobothris species (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) in Florida southern highbush blueberries

  Wednesday, November 12, 2025
  10:45 AM - 11:00 AM Pacific

• Multi-year effort in developing IPM tools for Pacific flatheaded borer, Chrysobothris mali, in California walnuts

  Wednesday, November 12, 2025
  11:00 AM - 11:15 AM Pacific

• Closing remarks

  Wednesday, November 12, 2025
  12:10 PM - 12:15 PM Pacific