Today, the majority of visitors to the poster were a decisively academic group. Unlike yesterday where the slide show provided the biggest draw, today’s crowd was focussed on the poster and were very interested in learning about how we are planning to study the MPB epidemic. Again, most were not involved in forestry or insect research, but did know of the MPB through the outbreaks which occur in Colorado. It is good to see our research is known at various levels by the scientific community at large, and I had numerous wishes of good luck in containing to problem. The visual nature of the MPB epidemic is something that seemed to really hit home.

Besides the numerous stem cell companies wondering how we integrated stem cell research into our current plans, I had a great discussion with a gentleman from the Dutch pavilion on the success of their Euro cup 2008 team. Just the other fun that you can have when talking about science. More to come tomorrow.