Entomology & Nematology News

Doctoral student Erin Taylor Kelly of the Geoffrey Attardo laboratory, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, is the 2022 winner of the highly competitive Student Leadership Award from the Pacific Branch, Entomological Society of America for her leadership in STEM and entomological activi...

UC Davis medical entomologist-geneticist Geoffrey Attardo, a global expert on vectorborne diseases, and renowned for his groundbreaking work on tsetse flies, is the 2022 recipient of the Medical, Urban, and Veterinary Entomology Award from the Pacific Branch, Entomological Society of America.

UC Davis undergraduate entomology major Gwendolyn "Gwen" Erdosh, a research scholar in the campuswide Research Scholars Program in Insect Biology (RSPIB) and president of the UC Davis Entomology Club, is recipient of the inaugural Dr.

Professor and plant pathology researcher Melissa Mitchum of the Department of Pathology, University of Georgia, will present the next UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology seminar.on "The Tricks Phytonematodes Use to Modulate Plant Development." Her virtual seminar begins at 4:10 p.m.

The nematode collection displayed at the 11th annual UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day on Sunday, March 6 in the UC Davis Conference Center will feature mostly root-knot nematodes and Ascaris (roundworm) nematodes, according to nematologist Shahid Siddique, assistant professor, and doctoral student A...