Latest Work-life-balance Podcast Episodes
Ep. 61: Riley Bender
Bug Talk - June 09, 2021 13:00 - 30 minutesIn this episode, Jen and Natalie chat with Riley Bender, an Entomology Research and Outreach Fellow (EROF) for Summer 2021! We chat about Riley's transition into a new career, doing field work, and some of her favorite and not-so favorite movies and books! You can follow Riley on Twitter at @Ril...
Ep 61: Riley Bender
Bug Talk - June 09, 2021 13:00 - 30 minutesIn this episode, Jen and Natalie chat with Riley Bender, an Entomology Research and Outreach Fellow (EROF) for Summer 2021! We chat about Riley's transition into a new career, doing field work, and some of her favorite and not-so favorite movies and books! You can follow Riley on Twitter at @Ril...
Ep. 60: Drs. Jabbar Bennett and Quentin Tyler
Bug Talk - June 02, 2021 10:00 - 51 minutesZsofia and two guest co-hosts, Julianna Wilson (Entomology DEI committee chair) and Elizeth Cinto Meija (representative of Entomology Department on the CANR DEI committee), talked with Drs. Jabbar Bennett (MSU’s Vice President and Chief Diversity Officer, Professor of Medicine in the College of ...
Ep. 59: EROF with Jenna Walters
Bug Talk - May 26, 2021 11:00 - 47 minutesAriana, Jen, Natalie and Zsofia chatted with Jenna Walters about the Entomology Research and Outreach Fellowship (EROF). We chatted about how Jenna (Twitter: @Jenna_M_Walters) was inspired by Insects for Inclusion to start this program, what activities had been undertaken by the EROF committee o...
Ep. 58: Harit Bal
Bug Talk - May 19, 2021 11:00 - 25 minutesThis week Ariana and Jen chatted with Dr. Harit Bal. Harit is the Senior Research Entomologist in Regulatory Sciences at Bayer Crop Science. They discussed what sparked her interest in agricultural work, and her research and experiences in graduate school. Harit also talked about the importance...
Ep 58: Harit Bal
Bug Talk - May 19, 2021 11:00 - 25 minutesThis week Ariana and Jen chatted with Dr. Harit Bal. Harit is the Senior Research Entomologist in Regulatory Sciences at Bayer Crop Science. They discussed what sparked her interest in agricultural work, and her research and experiences in graduate school. Harit also talked about the importance...
Ep. 57: Undergraduate program with Amanda Lorenz
Bug Talk - May 12, 2021 11:00 - 44 minutesDr. Amanda Lorenz is the undergraduate advisor in the Department of Entomology at Michigan State University. In this episode, Natalie, Ariana and Zsofia chatted with her about our undergraduate program, current recruitment strategies, employment opportunities and courses for entomology undergrad...
Ep. 56: Andrea Glassmire and Eli Bloom
Bug Talk - May 05, 2021 11:00 - 54 minutesIn this episode, Olivia and Zsofia chatted with outgoing MSU Entomology postdocs Andrea Glassmire and Eli Bloom. They shared the challenges of the pandemic-era job market and what they’ll remember fondly about the MSU Entomology community. Andrea is starting a new position working in the Cronin ...
Ep. 55: Kevin Steffey and Zsofia Szendrei
Bug Talk - April 28, 2021 11:00 - 54 minutesIn this episode Andrea Glassmire and Kayleigh Hauri talk with Drs. Kevin Steffey and Zsofia Szendrei, who are the co-editors in chief of American Entomologist. Kevin and Zsofia talked about how they got involved in science communication, the importance of storytelling in scientific writing and m...
Ep. 54: Marianna Karageorgi
Bug Talk - April 21, 2021 11:00 - 28 minutesIn this episode, Olivia talked with recent MSU Entomology Seminar speaker Dr. Marianna Karageorgi. Marianna is a postdoc at Stanford University and studies insect adaptation to host plant toxins. We discussed her path into the fascinating world of insect behavior, differences between the US and ...
Ep 53: Meg Lowman
Bug Talk - April 14, 2021 11:00 - 28 minutesOn this week's episode, co-hosts Jen, Natalie, and Ariana chatted with Dr. Meg Lowman ("Canopy Meg"). Dr. Lowman is a conservation biologist, educator, ecologist, writer, explorer, and public speaker. Her expertise involves canopy ecology, canopy plant-insect relationships, and constructing cano...
Ep. 53: Meg Lowman
Bug Talk - April 14, 2021 11:00 - 28 minutesOn this week's episode, co-hosts Jen, Natalie, and Ariana chatted with Dr. Meg Lowman ("Canopy Meg"). Dr. Lowman is a conservation biologist, educator, ecologist, writer, explorer, and public speaker. Her expertise involves canopy ecology, canopy plant-insect relationships, and constructing cano...
Ep. 52: Fieldwork Safety with Jackie Perkins
Bug Talk - April 07, 2021 11:00 - 44 minutesAriana and Zsofia talked with Jackie Perkins about fieldwork safety guidelines and how we approach field work this upcoming field season. Jackie developed a document that contains best practices on traveling to and working at field sites while doing research. It is designed to provide informatio...
Ep. 51: Bug Talk's 1 year anniversary
Bug Talk - March 31, 2021 11:00 - 59 minutesBug Talk is 1-year-old, so our podcast team celebrated with answering listener submitted questions. If you are interested in seeing photos of our pets, head over to our Instagram account. You can follow Bug Talk on Twitter and Instagram @bugtalkpodcast and find out more about the podcast on the...
Ep. 50: Sheila Colla
Bug Talk - March 24, 2021 11:00 - 40 minutesDr. Sheila Colla is an assistant professor at York University in Toronto, Canada. Her lab focuses on researching native pollinators, especially bumble bees. In this episode, Sheila talked about her undergrad research experiences that led her to study bumble bees, and the people who influenced h...
Ep. 49: Carlos Blanco
Bug Talk - March 17, 2021 11:00 - 46 minutesIn this episode, Andrea and Zsofia talked with Carlos Blanco, research entomologist at the USDA-APHIS. Carlos told us about how he got interested in agriculture, moving from Mexico to the U.S. to get a graduate education and being in an ecology graduate program balancing his interests in applied...
Ep. 48: Julie Lesnik
Bug Talk - March 10, 2021 12:00 - 46 minutesOn this episode, Jen and Ariana chatted with Dr. Julie Lesnik, an associate professor of Anthropology at Wayne State University in Detroit. She studies the evolution of humans eating insects and has even wrote a book on it called Edible Insects and Human Evolution. We chatted about how humans ev...
Ep. 47: Rebecca Tonietto
Bug Talk - March 03, 2021 12:00 - 45 minutesIn this podcast Jen and Zsofia talked to Rebecca Tonietto, assistant professor of biology at the University of Michigan-Flint. Rebecca is a pollination ecologist, who got her start with Ann Fraser's entomology course at Kalamazoo College. She then worked with Rachael Winfree as a research assist...
Ep. 46: Jaree Johnson
Bug Talk - February 24, 2021 12:00 - 43 minutesIn this episode Jen, Olivia, Andrea and Zsofia chatted with MSU alumna, Jaree Johnson. She is a medical-veterinary entomologist in the military and she talked to us about growing up in Indiana, getting into entomology, working in industry, getting an M.S. from the MSU Entomology Department and t...
Ep. 45: Olivia Cope
Bug Talk - February 17, 2021 12:00 - 41 minutesKayleigh, Natalie, Ariana, Zsofia welcomed Dr. Olivia Cope to the department, she is a new postdoc in the Wetzel Lab. Olivia will also be joining our podcast team as a co-host, so keep an eye out for new episodes with her. Olivia told us about her life growing up in Seattle, doing her undergrad ...
Ep. 44: Yolanda Chen
Bug Talk - February 10, 2021 14:00 - 46 minutesIn this episode Ali and Zsofia chatted with Yolanda Chen, an associate professor at the University of Vermont. Yolanda shared with us how she got interested in evolutionary biology, her experience working at the International Rice Institute in the Philippines and talked to us about having kids w...
Ep. 43: Kate Boersma
Bug Talk - February 03, 2021 12:00 - 43 minutesIn this week’s episode of Bug Talk, Natalie talked with her undergraduate research advisor, Dr. Kate Boersma. Kate is an assistant professor at the University of San Diego, California. She is an entomologist who focuses on arid land aquatic ecology. Natalie and Kate talk about the research they'...
Ep. 42: Samuel Ramsey
Bug Talk - January 27, 2021 12:00 - 48 minutesIn this fun conversation with Dr. Samuel Ramsey, Jen, Natalie and Zsofia asked him about how he came to love insects, his life as a singer / performing artist and his passion for science communication. We mentioned his YouTube channel called Doctor Buggs, his appearance on American Idol and his ...
Ep. 41: Kelsey Graham
Bug Talk - January 20, 2021 12:00 - 45 minutesDr. Kelsey Graham was a postdoc in the Isaacs Lab until Dec. 2020, she is now a research scientist at the USDA-ARS Bee Lab in Utah. She and Zsofia discussed her job application and interview process during lockdown, she also talked about her new job responsibilities and what her expectations are...
Ep. 40: Entomologists of Color: Jessica Ware and Megan Wilson
Bug Talk - January 13, 2021 12:00 - 53 minutesWe talked to Jessica Ware and Megan Wilson, both part of the #entopoc team. Check out Episode 29 for an earlier podcast with 3 other members of this organization to find out more about who they are and how they were created. In this episode Zsofia talked with Jessica and Megan about how they pa...
Ep. 39: Bug Talk - End of year wrap up
Bug Talk - December 02, 2020 12:00 - 30 minutesIn this podcast our co-host team (Andrea, Kayleigh, Ariana, Natalie, Jen, Zsofia) chatted about plans for the podcast's future, such as starting a YouTube channel for posting the recorded zoom videos, making public service announcements at the beginning of episodes about open positions, new peop...
Ep. 38: Land Acknowledgement with Emily Proctor
Bug Talk - November 23, 2020 12:00 - 44 minutesIn this podcast Kayleigh and Zsofia talked to Emily Proctor from MSU Extension about her role in connecting MSU with MI Indigenous People. We also talked about her life growing up, her perception of the Land Acknowledgement and how to recruit indigenous students. MSU Land Acknowledgement Articl...
Ep. 38: Land Acknowledgement with Emily Proctor
Bug Talk - November 23, 2020 12:00 - 44 minutesIn this podcast Kayleigh and Zsofia talked to Emily Proctor from MSU Extension about her role in connecting MSU with MI Indigenous People. We also talked about her life growing up, her perception of the Land Acknowledgement and how to recruit indigenous students. MSU Land Acknowledgement Articl...
Ep. 37: Ivette Perfecto
Bug Talk - November 18, 2020 12:00 - 40 minutesIn this episode Ariana and Zsofia talked to Dr. Ivette Perfecto, James E. Crowfoot Collegiate Professor of Environmental Justice at the University of Michigan. She gave the MSU entomology department seminar on Nov. 2 where she shared her current work on ants in coffee agroecosystems. In this pod...
Ep. 36: Tatiana Cornelissen
Bug Talk - November 11, 2020 12:00 - 56 minutesIn this episode, Zsofia talked to Dr. Tatiana Cornelissen, a Brazilian scientist working on insect-plant interactions. Tati recently gave an entomology department seminar over Zoom about her research. In this podcast we explored her life growing up in Brazil, how she developed a passion for scie...
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