A series of winter seminars hosted by the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology will be available in person and online.
Marshall McMunn, coordinator of the seminars for the 2025-26 academic year, has announced the "spring list."
All seminars will take place at 12:10 p.m. on Wednesdays in 122 Briggs Hall at UC Davis. They also will be on Zoom at https://ucdavis.zoom.us/j/95882849672.
The tentative line up includes:
Jan. 7:
Mia Lippey, doctoral candidate, exit seminar, hosted by Emily Meineke, assistant professor. Major professors are Meineke and UC Davis Distinguished Professor Emeritus Jay Rosenheim.
Title: “Winners and Losers of Agricultural Arthropods under Global Change (an Ecoinformatics Approach)”
Jan: 14:
Amanda Hodson, assistant professor, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology hosted by Marshall McMunn, assistant professor
Title: (Pending)
Jan. 21:
Stacy Philpott, professor, UC Santa Cruz, hosted by Emily Meineke, assistant professor
Title: (Pending)
Jan. 28:
Lark Coffey, professor of pathology, microbiology and immunology, UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine, hosted by Geoffrey Attardo, associate professor
Title: "Reemerging St. Louis Encephalitis Virus in the Western United States and Fitness dynamics in California Culex”
Feb. 4:
Cindy Kron, North Coast IPM Advisor, UC Statewide Integrated Pest Management Program (UC IPM) hosted by Ian Grettenberger, associate professor and agricultural entomologist, Cooperative Extension
Title: "Adventures of the North Coast Extension Entomologist”
Feb. 11:
Lena Mueller, assistant professor, Salk Institute, hosted by Shahid Siddique, associate professor
Feb. 18:
Ben Nyman, postdoctoral mosquito researcher, UC Riverside, hosted by Carla-Cristina Edwards "CC" Edwards, doctoral candidate
Title: "Ecological Explorations in the Mosquito Surveillance Landscape”
Feb. 25:
Jessica Aguilar, postdoctoral scholar, Stanford University, hosted by Rachel Vannette, professor and vice chair of the department
March 4:
Todd Holmes, professor, UC Irvine, hosted by Lisa Baik, assistant professor
Title: “Non-Image Forming Visual Mechanisms Drive Animal Behaviors”
March 11:
Nazzy Pakpour, Yeast Bay Bio, hosted by Joanna Chiu, professor and chair of the department
Title: “Curiosity made the Scientist”
March 18:
Crystal Homicz, doctoral candidate, exit seminar
Title: (Pending)
Seminar coordinator Marshall McMunn may be reached at msmcmunn@ucdavis.edu for any Zoom issues.
Recordings of previous seminar speakers are at https://entomology.ucdavis.edu/seminars.