"Human and Animal Impacts of Low-Level Pesticides": In Person Badger Talk in Elm Grove, WI

Join us on June 21, 2025, at 11:00 AM at the Elm Grove Public Library. No registration is necessary. This talk is hosted by Elm Grove Beautification Committee, and is a part of the Pollinator Week event and is open to the public: In collaboration with our public library, Friends of the Library, Beautification Committee, Green Team, and Sustainability Committee--we'd like to bring a speaker in to discuss the human (and potential environmental) health concerns associated with pesticide use.

We explore multiple subtle effects of pesticides at very low concentrations that impact health and development at multiple levels of biological organization from molecular to population dynamics.

Presenter Warren Porter has a deep Wisconsin heritage, since he was born in Madison two blocks from where he works. His parents came from Green Bay in the north and from a farm that had land bought from Daniel Webster before the Civil War, 20 miles southeast of Madison. He received his Bachelor’s degree from the UW Madison while playing tuba in the marching band for four years. His Masters and PhD were from UCLA, before he began a two-year postdoctoral fellowship with a physicist-turned-botanist at the Missouri Botanical Garden and Washington University in St. Louis. He then came back to Madison as a new assistant professor and has been here ever since–teaching, taking courses, and doing interdisciplinary research.

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