Feb. 18, 2009 Through Nov. 9, 2011
Below is the list of archived seminars hosted by the UC Davis Department of Entomology. UC Davis entomology professor James Carey, chair of the University of California Committee on Research Policy, proposes the creation of a network to Webcast the hundreds of seminars presented in each in the 10-campus UC system. Among those recording the webinars: graduate students James Harwood and Amy Morice and postdoctoral scholar Freerk Molleman, all of the Carey lab.
Feb. 18, 2009
Michael Caterino, curator
Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History
Santa Barbara, Calif.
"Patterns of Diversity in Southern California Beetles"
(Host: Fran Keller)
View archived webcast
Feb. 25, 2009
Claudio Gratton
Department of Entomology
University of Wisconsin-Madison
"Midge Madness! Quantifying Linkages Between Lake and Land"
(Hosts: Pete Epanchin and Jay Rosenheim)
View archived webcast
March 4, 2009
Tom Baker
Distinguished Professor of Entomology
Pennsylvania State University
University Park, Penn.
"But Do We Shoot the Driver? Meeting New Challenges in Detecting Agents of Harm by Using Old Entomological Knowledge"
(Host: Walter Leal)
View archived webcast
March 11, 2009
Kipling "Kip" Will
Associate Professor
Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management
UC Berkeley
"The Phylogeny of Pterostichine Carabid Beetles and the Diversification of Continental Island Faunas"
(Host: Rebecca O’Flaherty)
View archived webcast
March 18, 2009
Eric Mussen
Cooperative Extension Apiculturist, UC Davis Department of Entomology Faculty
"Honey Bee Research Developments"
(Host: Susan Cobey)
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April 8, 2009
David Spiller
Department of Evolution and Ecology, UC Davis
"Marine Subsidy Effects on Island Food Webs"
(Host: Fran Keller)
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April 15, 2009
Christian Peeters
Researcher
Laboratoire d’Ecologie, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris
"Recurrent Selection Against Winged Queens in Ants, and Shifts in Life History Traits"
(Host: Phil Ward)
View archived webcast
April 22, 2009
Andrew Forbes
Postdoctoral Researcher
Department of Entomology
UC Davis, Jay Rosenheim Lab
"Sequential Speciation: Why Are There So Many SMALL Animals?"
(Host: Jay Roseneheim)
View archived webcast
April 29, 2009
Andrew Graves
Postdoctoral Researcher
Department of Plant Pathology, UC Davis
"Attraction, Interruption, and Host Physiology: Understanding Conifer Bark Beetle Host Selection in Alaska and California"
(Host: Steve Seybold)
View archived webcast
May 6, 2009
Dominic Reisig
Doctoral Candidate
Department of Entomology
UC Davis, Larry Godfrey Lab
Developing IPM for Thrips in California Timothy and a Density-Independent Effect on Thrips Wing Diphenism
(Host: Larry Godfrey)
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May 13, 2009
Richard Fell
Professor
Department of Entomology
Virginia Tech
"Bee Problems and Colony Losses - Are Things Really That Bad?"
(Host: Michael Parrella)
View archived webcast
May 27, 2009
Robbin Thorp
Emeritus Professor
Department of Entomology
UC Davis
"Plight of a Bumble Bee"
(Host: Ian Pearse)
View archived webcast
Oct. 7, 2009
Madoka Nakai
Associate Professor
Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
“A Novel Protein from Lepidopteran Virus Killing Endoparasitoid and Viral Control for Tea Pests in Japan.”
View archived webcast
Oct. 21, 2009
James R. Carey
Professor
UC Davis Department of Entomology
“Demography of the Finitude: Insights into Lifespan, Aging and Death from Insect Studies."
View archived webcast
Oct. 21, 2009
Robert Wingo
Researcher
Chemical Diagnosis and Engineering of the Chemistry Division
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Los Alamos, N. M.
Bringing in the Bee Team (Los Alamos)
Discovery Channel Buzzes Into Los Alamos
"Explosives and Narcotics Detection by Monitoring of the Proboscis Extension Reflex in Apis mellifera (Honey Bee)"
(Host: Doug Gubler)
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Nov. 6, 2009
Jonathan Gershenzon
Professor
Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology
Jena, Germany
"Plant Volatiles: Versatile Agents of Defense."
View archived webcast
Nov. 18, 2009
Matt Forister
Community Ecologist and Population Biologist
A ssistant Professor
University of Nevada-Reno
Agricultural” Melissa Blue butterfly: “Anatomy of a Niche Shift: Lycaeides melissa and the Colonization of Alfalfa.
View archived Webcast
Feb. 3, 2010
Daniel Papaj
Professor
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson
"Ecological and Evolutionary Perspectives on Learning in Bees and Butterflies."
(Host: Billy Krimmel)
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Feb. 10, 2010
Terry Griswold
Research Entomologist
USDA-ARS, Logan, Utah
"Patterns of North American Bees at Scales Plot to Continental: Rare Is Common?"
View archived webcast
Feb. 17, 2010
Alexandra Klein
Professor
University of Lüneburg, Germany
"Can Wild Pollinators Contribute, Augment, and Complement Almond Pollination in California?"
View archived webcast
Feb. 24, 2010
Rosemary Gillespie
Insect Biologist
Schlinger Chair of Systematics; Director, Essig Museum of Entomology; Chair, Berkeley Natural History Museums
UC Berkeley
"Community Assembly through Adaptive Radiation: Spiders on Islands"
View archived webcast
March 3, 2010
Moran Segoli
Postdoctoral Researcher
UC Davis Department of Entomology, Jay Rosenheim lab
"The Importance of Predation in Shaping Desert Communities and Trophic Levels."
View archived webcast
March 10, 2010
John Beck
Research Chemist
USDA Agricultural Research Station, Albany, Calif.
"The Search for Non-Pheromonal Volatile Organic Compounds Toward Control of Navel Orangeworm, a Major Insect Pest of California Tree Nuts."
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April 7, 2010
Michael Parrella
Professor and Chair
UC Davis Department of Entomology
"An International Perspective on Sustainability in Protected Cropping Systems with an Emphasis on Biological Control"
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April 28, 2010
Vojtech Novotny
Professor, Institute of Entomology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic
“Ecology of Plant-Insect Food Webs in Tropical Rainforests, Particularly in Papua, New Guinea.”
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May 5, 2010
Michal Segoli
Postdoctoral scholar,
Center for Population Biology, Jay Rosenheim lab, UC Davis Department of Entomology
“Joint Parent-Offspring Control of Brood Size in a Polyembryonic Wasp.”
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May 12, 2010
Andrea Lucky
Doctoral candidate
UC Davis Department of Entomology, Phil Ward lab
“Systematics, Biogeography and Conservation of Ants in Australasia and the Pacific.”
View archived webcast
Sept. 29, 2010
Shirley Luckhart
Associate professor,
Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology
UC Davis
"Systems Biology of Complex Regulatory Signaling in Malaria Host-Parasite Interactions"
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Oct. 6, 2010
Yao Hua Law
Doctoral student,
Jay Rosenheim lab
UC Davis
"My Neighbors Drive Me Cannibalistic: Mechanisms of Density-Dependent Cannibalistic Behavior and its Effects on Population Dynamics"
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Oct. 13, 2010
Shalene Jha
UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow,
Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management (working with Claire Kremen)
UC Berkeley
"Movement in the Matrix: Population Genetics and Ecosystem Services Across Human-Dominated Landscapes"
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Oct. 27, 2010
Leigh Distinguished Seminar Scholar
Murray Isman
Dean of Land and Food Systems and professor of applied biology (entomology/toxicology) at the University of British Columbia
"Aromatherapy for Pest Management? Pesticides Based on Plant Essential Oils for Agriculture, Industry and as Consumer Products"
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Nov. 3, 2010
John Stark
Professor, Ecotoxicology Program,
Director, WSU Puyallup R&E Center
Washington State University
"Pollutant Soup: Effects of Toxic Mixtures on Fish and their Food"
View archived webcast
Nov. 10, 2010
Hugh Dingle
Emeritus professor,
UC Davis
Insect behavior
"And the Beak Shall Inherit: Contemporary Local and Reverse Evolution in Morphology and Life History in American and Australian Soapberry Bugs"
View archived webcast
Nov. 17, 2010
Elizabeth Crone
Senior ecologist,
Harvard Forest
Harvard University
Petersham, Mass.
"How Can Theoretical Ecology Guide Management of Plant and Insect Populations?
View archived webcast
Dec. 1, 2010
Erin Wilson
Postdoctoral scholar,
Louie Yang lab
UC Davis
"Yellowjacket Life History Shifts Modify Invasion Impacts in Hawaiian Ecosystems"
View archived webcast
Dec. 8, 2010
Wittko Francke
Professor,
University of Hamburg, Germany
"Insect Semiochemicals: Structural Principles and Evolution"
View archived webcast
Jan. 5, 2011
Rob Dunn
Assistant professor,
Department of Biology North Carolina State University
“Using Collaborative Approaches to See the Geography and Future of Life: Lessons From Ants.”
View archived webcast
Jan. 6, 2011
Gene Robinson
University Swanlund Chair
Department of Entomology
University of Illinois
Urban-Champaign
(Note: This was part of the Storer Life Sciences Endowment: "Major Issues in Modern Biology." Held in Wellman Hall.
"The Awesome Power of Social Evolution: Language, Agriculture and Warfare"
Windows Media Player:
http://webcast.ucdavis.edu/BioSci/2011/Robinson_01-06-11.asx
QuickTime Media Player:
http://webcast.ucdavis.edu/BioSci/2011/Robinson_01-06-11.qtl
Jan. 10, 2011
Eric Mussen
Extension apiculturist
UC Davis Department of Entomology
Speaking at 2011 North American Beekeeping Conference and Tradeshow, Jan. 10-14, Galveston, Texas
"Hints for Successful Backyard Beekeeping"
Listen to audio (mp3)
Jan. 12, 2011
Amanda Hodson
Postdoctoral scholar
UC Davis Department of Land, Air and Water Resources
“Ecological Influence of the Entomopathogenic Nematode, Steinernema carpocapsae, on Soil Arthropods in Pistachio Orchards.”
View archived webcast
Jan. 19, 2011
Jonathan Pruitt
Center for Population Biology (CPB) Postdoctoral Fellow,
Department of Evolution and Ecology
UC Davis
“From Individuals to Populations to Communities: When Does Personality Matter?”
View archived webcast
Jan. 26, 2011
Angela Smilanich
Adjunct faculty in biology
University of Nevada, Reno, and affiliate associate research faculty, Desert Research Institute, Reno
"Self-Medication vs. Self-Toxicity in Generalist and Specialist Herbivores"
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Feb. 9, 2011
Roger Vargas
Research entomologist,
USDA-ARS (Agricultural Research Service)
"Area-Wide Fruit Fly Programs against Fruit Flies in Hawaii, French Polynesia and California."
View archived webcast
Feb. 11, 2011
Judy Scotchmoor
Assistant director in charge of education and public outreach, UC Museum of Paleontology, UC Berkeley
"Shifting the Paradigm in Our Teaching: Proving Dobzhansky Correct"
View archived webcast
Feb. 11, 2011
Judy Scotchmoor
Assistant director in charge of education and public outreach, UC Museum of Paleontology, UC Berkeley
"How Science Works: Investigating the Real Process of Science.”
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Feb. 16, 2011
Gary Blomquist
Professor and department chair,
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
University of Nevada, Reno
"Pheromone Production in Bark Beetles"
View archived webcast
Feb. 23, 2011
Tom Turner
Assistant professor,
Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology
UC Santa Barbara
"Evolutionary Functional Genomics: How Can We Find the Natural Genetic Variants Affecting Interesting Traits in Model Insects?"
View archived webcast
March 30, 2011
Bernard "Bernie" Roitberg
Professor
Centre for Pest Management
Department of Biosciences,
Simon Fraser University, British Columbia
The Irritable Insect"
View archived webcast
Oct. 5, 2011
Judith Becerra, associate research professor, University of Arizona, Tucson
“Coevolution between Bursera and its Herbivores.”
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Oct. 12, 2011
Lynn Kimsey, director of the Bohart Museum of Entomology and professor of entomology at UC Davis
“The International Cooperative Biodiversity Group Program (ICBG) Rain Forest Expedition to Sulawesi Rainforest.”
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Oct. 21, 2011
Honey! conference, sponsored by Robert Mondavi Institute and co-sponsored by UC Davis Department of Entomology
Honey! Six-part video playlist on honey sponsored by the RMI (production; history; tasting; etc)
Speakers: Eric Mussen, Brian Johnson, Norman Gary, Louis Grivette, Liz Applegate, and Honey Tasting with Eric Mussen
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Oct. 26, 2011
Alex Wild
Research scholar and insect photographer, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (he received his doctorate in entomology from UC Davis with major professor Phil Ward)
"How to Take Better Insect Photos"
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Nov. 9, 2011
Brian Fisher
Ant specialist, chair and curator of entomology, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco
"How Many Ants Can an Island Hold? Exploring Ant Diversity in Madagascar" (the ‘Indiana Jones’ of the Cal Academy takes his audience on a tour)
Access UCTV
--Kathy Keatley Garvey
Communications specialist
UC Davis Department of Entomology
(530) 754-6894