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Karen Menuz, first speaker

Karen Menuz to Present First of Department's Winter Seminars

January 3, 2020
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Karen Menuz, assistant professor, Department of Physiology and Neurobiology, University of Connecticut, will be the first speaker in the UC Davis Department of Entomology's winter quarter seminars. Menuz will speak on "Molecular Basis of Insect Olfaction" at 4:10 p.m., Wednesday, Jan.
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Rachel Vannette, seminar coordinator

Department's Winter Quarter Seminars

January 3, 2020
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Update, March 25, 2020: The seminars below are linked to their videos. Free access. Community ecologist Rachel Vannette, assistant professor and coordinator of the Department of Entomology and Nematology's winter quarter seminars, has announced the schedule.
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The focus of this new USDA-ARS honey bee research program is to develop technology that improves colony survivorship through long-term studies of multiple stress factors. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Ribbon Cutting Jan. 7 for USDA-ARS Bee Research Facility at UC Davis

January 2, 2020
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
A ribbon-cutting ceremony and facility tour on Tuesday, Jan. 7 will mark the opening of the newly constructed Honey Bee Research Facility of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS), located on Bee Biology Road, University of California, Davis.
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