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This is RJ Millena's poster, “Parental Care and the Risk of Maternally Vectored Pathogens: Ammophila Transmit Strepsipteran Parasites to Their Young,” that won top honors in the March 2021 Koret UC LEADS Symposium poster competition.
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Rebecca Jean 'RJ' Millena: An Amazing Doctoral Opportunity Few Receive

March 24, 2021
When five-year-old Rebecca Jean RJ Millena entered her kindergarten class in Concord, Calif., she immediately settled on a career choice: entomology. An About Me poster hanging in her childhood home in Concord confirms it: When I grow up, I want to be an entomologist. She did and she is.
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Aedes aegypti, the yellow fever mosquito, has been detected in 17 California counties since 2017. (CDC Photo)
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UC Davis Researchers Examine Pyrethroid Resistance in Spread of Aedes aegypti

March 16, 2021
One reason for the successful spread of the yellow fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti, to at least 17 California counties since 2013--from the Mexican border to Shasta County--may be linked to its resistance to pyrethroids, according to newly published UC Davis research examining genetic markers of resis...
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Two bumble bees, Bombus vandykei, seek the same Phacellia plant on the UC Davis central campus in this 2017 photo. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Romina Rader: 'The Journey to Effective Pollination'

March 5, 2021
Community ecologist Romina Rader of the University of New England's School of Environmental and Rural Science, will speak on "The Journey to Effective Pollination" at the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology's virtual seminar on Wednesday, March 10.
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