Entomology & Nematology News

UC Davis professor Phil Ward and lab member Jill Oberski, greet guests at the Bohart Museum open house. In the center is a display on "Ants as Farmers." In back are Bohart collections manager Brennen Dyer (left) conversing with Alex Francis, a freshman at Heritage High School, Brentwood. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Bohart Open House: Fielding Questions About Ants

May 30, 2023

By Kathy Keatley Garvey

Visitors at the recent Bohart Museum of Entomology open house on ants learned all about what myrmecologist Phil Ward, UC Davis professor of entomology, calls "our friends, the ants." The three-hour open house included displays of live ants as well as specimens.

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This is one of the illustrations from Lindsey Mack's exit seminar on "Genetic and Molecular Factors Influencing Pyrethroid
Response in Aedes aegypti from California."

Doctoral Candidate Lindsey Mack's Exit Seminar on Mosquito Research Set June 6

May 26, 2023

By Kathy Keatley Garvey

Doctoral candidate Lindsey Mack of the lab of medical entomologist-geneticist Geoffrey Attardo, associate professor, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, will present her exit seminar on "Genetic and Molecular Factors Influencing Pyrethroid Response in Aedes aegypti from California" on...

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This is the Barack Obama Trapdoor Spider, Aptostichus barackobamai, that Professor Jason Bond named and which Bond, Lacie Newton an other arachnologists study. This is a spider from Sonoma County. (Photo courtesy of Jason Bond)

Lacie Newton: Newly Published Article on Trapdoor Spiders, Including One Named for Barack Obama

May 25, 2023

By Kathy Keatley Garvey

UC Davis doctoral alumna Lacie Newton, formerly of the Jason Bond lab and now a postdoctoral fellow in the Jessica Ware lab, American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), New York City, is the lead author of a newly published article on three sibling trapdoor spiders, Aptostichus barackobamai, A.

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Doctoral candidate Elizabeth Postema of the Louie Yang lab studies antipredator color and behavior in swallowtail caterpillars.

Doctoral Candidate Elizabeth Postema to Give Exit Seminar

May 25, 2023

By Kathy Keatley Garvey

Fifth-year doctoral candidate Elizabeth Postema of the lab of community ecologist/professor Louie Yang, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, will be presenting her exit seminar Antipredator Color and Behavior in Swallowtail Caterpillars at 12:10 p.m.

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Katie Thompson-Peer: 'Cellular Mechanisms of Dendrite Regeneration after Neuron Injury'

May 23, 2023

By Kathy Keatley Garvey

Assistant professor Katie Thompson-Peer of the Department of Developmental and Cell Biology, UC Irvine, will speak on "Cellular Mechanisms of Dendrite Regeneration after Neuron Injury at the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology seminar on Wednesday, May 24.

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