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The Nault Lab

Applied insect ecology and management of vegetable insect pests

Student Updates

November 7, 2025

Leo Salgado, a PhD candidate in the Nault lab, recently published an article titled "Performance of novel alternatives to neonicotinoid insecticide seed treatments for managing...

November 7, 2025

Leo Salgado has been honored with the Paul J Chapman Graduate Student Fellowship for the 2025-2026 academic year This fellowship is awarded each year to a graduate student in...

July 17, 2025

Katherine Poulos (current PhD student) led a workshop called "Sorting Snapshots of Nature for Science" at Expanding Your Horizons, a 1-day conference held on the Ithaca Cornell...

October 25, 2024

Leo Salgado, PhD candidate, recently received the SomosEnto Excellence Award Leo is part of the first cohort to receive this award, which is given by the SomosEnto...

October 11, 2024

Lidia Komondy, a recent PhD graduate from the Nault lab, and Leo Salgado, PhD candidate, presented posters at the XXVII International Congress of Entomology in Kyoto, Japan in...

September 16, 2024

Katherine Poulos has joined the Nault lab as a PhD student, having completed her MS at Columbia University in the Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology department Katherine...

April 26, 2024

Lidia Komondy, PhD candidate, was featured in a College of Agriculture and Life Sciences news article This article, published in the “Field Notes” column, highlighted...

August 9, 2023

Lidia Komondy, a fourth year PhD candidate in our lab, received the 2022 Villani Graduate Student Award for her proposal to "bridge the stats gap" and purchase an AgriTech-wide...

August 4, 2023

Layton’s summer research project investigated onion maggot, Delia antiqua, sensitivity to spinosad, an insecticide seed treatment commonly used for maggot control in the onion...

April 25, 2023

Lidia Komondy, a third year PhD candidate in our lab, received a second place award for her 3 Minute Thesis presentation in Cornell's 3 Minute Thesis Competition The Cornell 3...