The UC Davis Department of Entomology has announced its list of fall seminars.
All the noon seminars will take place from 12:10 to 1 p.m. on Wednesdays, Oct. 17 through Nov. 28 in Room 1022 of the Life Sciences Building. The last seminar of the year will be the Leigh Alumni Seminar on Dec. 5 at 6:15 in the Activities and Recreation Center (ARC) Ballroom A. Co-chairs are assistant professors Joanna Chiu and Brian Johnson.
Plans call for all the seminars to be videotaped and posted on UCTV under the coordination of James R. Carey, professor of entomology. (See the index of previous Department of Entomology seminars posted on UCTV Seminars.)
The schedule:
Oct. 17: Tim Linksvayer, assistant professor, University of Pennsylvania.
Title: "Colony-Level Social Insect Gene Regulatory Networks"
Host: Brian Johnson, assistant professor of entomology
Oct. 24: Micky Eubanks, professor, Texas A&M University
Title: "Community Ecology of a "Pest": Aphids Rule their World via Powerful Indirect Effects"
Host: Graduate student Billy Kimmel
Oct. 31: Sarjeet Gill, professor, UC Riverside
Title: "Bacterial Toxins in Disease Mosquito Vector Control"
Host: Bruce Hammock, distinguished professor of entomology
Nov. 7: Taro Ohkawa, postdoctoral researcher, UC Berkeley
Title: "Baculovirus Manipulation of the Host Actin Cytoskeleton: Roles in Entry and Egress"
Host: George Kamita from the Bruce Hammock lab
Nov. 14: No seminar this week (Entomological Society of America meeting)
Nov. 28: James Mallet, professor, Harvard University
Title: ""Mimicry and Speciation in Amazonian Butterflies: From Jungle to Genome""
Host: Gregory Lanzaro, professor, UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine
SPECIAL SEMINAR
Dec. 5: Leigh Alumni Seminar
Marc Tatar, professor, Brown University
Title: "Integrated Control of Drosophila Aging by Insulin/IGF Signaling"
Host: James R. Carey, professor of entomology
Site: Activities and Recreation Center (ARC) Ballroom A
Wine and Cheese Reception from 5 to 6 p.m.
Presentation at 6:15 p.m.
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--Kathy Keatley Garvey
Communications specialist
UC Davis Department of Entomology
(530) 754-6894