Oct. 4, 2012
Professor James R. Carey is arranging the videotaping. The Department of Entomology seminars on UCTV are at http://seminars.uctv.tv/Host.aspx?hostID=17.
Evolutionary biologist Timothy Linksvayer, assistant professor in the Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, will be the first speaker in the UC Davis Department of Entomology's fall seminars.
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's annual
meeting)
Nov. 28: James Mallet, professor, Harvard University
Title: "Hybridization, Mimicry and the Origin of Species in Heliconius
Butterflies"
Host: Gregory Lanzaro, professor, UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine
--Kathy Keatley Garvey
Communications specialist
UC Davis Department of Entomology
(530) 754-6894