Dec 31, 2025
In this episode Ed interviews Dr. Danielle Mikolajewski a postdoctoral candidate in the plant pathology department at the University of Florida. Ed and Danielle discuss some of Danielle’s Ph.D. research on chestnut blight and one of the methods being studied in attempt to bring back the American Chestnut;...
Dec 24, 2025
In this episode Ed interviews Dr. Adam Varenhorst of South Dakota State University. They discuss Adam’s work with an emerging insect problem in soybeans, Sunflowers and other plants the dectes stem borer.
Additional Resources
https://academic.oup.com/jee/article/118/5/2338/8177282
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Dec 19, 2025
In this episode of Alternate Hosts Ed is Joined once again by Dr. Madeline Hendrickson to interview Dr. Danielle Mikolajewski, post-doctoral candidate at University of Florida. In order to get you into the holiday spirit they discuss the disease that whipped out the American Chestnut and left us all wondering what...
Dec 17, 2025
In this episode Ed interviews Dr. Adam Varenhorst of South Dakota State University. They discuss Adam’s work with an emerging insect problem in soybeans, Sunflowers and other plants the dectes stem borer.
Additional Resources
https://academic.oup.com/jee/article/118/5/2338/8177282
Time Stamps
(00:00) Introduction...
Dec 3, 2025
In this episode Ed interviews Dr. Mark Hoddle of University of California Riverside. They discuss some of Mark’s worldly adventures while trying to track down biological control agents and his work with the South American palm weevil.
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