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At a recent TODS Day, UC Davis employee Sarah Robertson supervises her children, Isla and Cameron, as they use a catch-and-release device to observe bees up close. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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'Take Our Sons and Daughters to Work' on Thursday, April 25

April 24, 2019
The Bohart Museum of Entomology and the Hagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven, both part of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, will participate in the UC Davis Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work (TODS) Day on Thursday, April 25.
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Brownie Girl Scouts (from left) Jayda Navarette, Kendl Mackin and Keira Yu of Vacaville Troop 30477 react to the spider sensory activity. At right is postdoctoral fellow Vera Opatova of the Jason Bond lab. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Professor Jason Bond: 'A Spider Is Always Watching You!'

April 22, 2019
Spiders are everywhere. You're never too far away from a spider; a spider is always watching you," Professor Jason Bond told the crowd at his town-hall presentation at the Bohart Museum of Entomology open house on arachnids.
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Bruce Hammock, UC Davis distinguished professor and co-founder of EicOsis and Cindy McReynolds, an EicOsis project manager and UC Davis doctoral student. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Davis-Based Company Targeting Chronic Pain Gets Financial Boost

April 22, 2019
DAVIS--EicOsis LLC, a Davis-based company seeking to block chronic pain in humans and companion animals, has received a $5 million investment from Open Philanthropy to move original research developed in the University of California, Davis laboratory of Professor Bruce Hammock into human clinical tr...
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An orb weaver at work in Vacaville, Calif. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Sarah Stellwagen: The Biomechanics of Spider Glue

April 21, 2019
Postdoctoral researcher and spider silk expert Sarah Stellwagen, University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), will speak on "Towards Spider Glue: From Material Properties to Sequencing the Longest Silk Family Gene" at the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology seminar at 4:10 p.m.
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Bert Hölldobler (Arizona State University photo)
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Bert Hölldobler to Speak on 'Superorganisms'

April 15, 2019
Pulitzer-Prize winner Bert Hlldobler, one of the world's leading ant experts, will speak on "The Superorganism: Communication, Cooperation and Conflict in Ant Societies" at the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology's seminar on Wednesday, April 17 at 4:10 p.m. in Room 122 of Briggs Hall.
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