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The 2022 UC Davis Entomology Games Team at the regionals: (from left) captain Zachary Griebenow, Erin "Taylor" Kelly, Jill Oberski and Madison Hendrick. (Photo by Tolulope Morawo)
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UC Davis Entomology Games Team: Champions!

April 14, 2022
The UC Davis Entomology Games Team won the championship at the annual meeting of the Pacific Branch, Entomological Society of America, held April 10-13 in Santa Rosa, by defeating the UC Riverside Entomology Games Team.
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The UC Davis Entomology Games Team: (from left) Erin "Taylor Kelly, Madison "Madi" Hendrick, captain Zachary Griebenow, and Jill Oberski.
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UC Davis to Be in Spotlight at PBESA Meeting

April 8, 2022
UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology will be in the spotlight at the April 10-13 meeting of the Pacific Branch, Entomological Society of America (PBESA), to be held in the Hyatt Regency Sonoma Wine Country. Santa Rosa.
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A yellow-faced bumble bee, Bombus vosnesenskii, foraging on buckwheat flowers off the California coast. (Photo courtesy of Tobin Hammer)
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Tobin Hammer: Why Do Bees Keep Losing Their Symbionts?

April 7, 2022
Tobin Hammer, assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, UC Irvine, will give an in-person and virtual seminar on Wednesday, April 13 to the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology on "Mystery of the Missing Microbes: Why Do Bees Keep Losing Their Symbionts?
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Research in the laboratory of Makedonka Mitreva (Screen shot)
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Makedonka Mitreva: Multi-Omics Applications in Helminth Research

April 4, 2022
More than 3 billion people worldwide live on less than $2.50 a day. The majority live in low- and middle- income countries, and some in vulnerable communities of high-income countries. Chronic infections in these populations are predominated by parasitic helminths.
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