Neil Tsutsui of UC Berkeley is the first seminar speaker.

The seminars will take place on Wednesdays from 12:10 to 1 p.m. in 122 Briggs. Plans are to record each seminar for later posting on UCTV. 

The speakers' titles and abstracts will be announced later.

The seminar speakers:

Jan. 8
Neil Tsutsui, associate professor, Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, UC Berkeley
Title: "Integrating Chemical Ecology and Genetics to Illuminate the Behavior of an Invasive Social Insect"
Host: Brian Johnson, assistant professor, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology

Jan. 15
Dave Gillespie, research scientist, Pacific Agri-Food Research Center, Agassiz, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Title: "Biological Control in the Face of Climate Change"
Host: Michael Parrella, professor and chair of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology

Jan. 22
David Holway, professor, Section of Ecology, Behavior and Evolution, UC San Diego
Title: "Do Positive Species Interactions Promote Invasions? The Role of Ant-Hemipteran Mutualisms in Ant Invasions"
Host: Brian Johnson, assistant professor, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology

Feb. 5
Kenneth Ross, professor, Department of Entomology, University of Georgia

Title: "The Natural (and Unnatural) History of the Red Imported Fire Ant"
Host: Greg Lanzaro, professor, Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine

Feb. 12  
Alana Jacobson, Department of Entomology, North Carolina State University
Title: "Investigating Factors Underlying Thrips-Topovirus Interactions: the Importance of Thrips Genetic Variation in the Transmission of Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus by Thrips tabaci and Its Relevance to Other Tospovirus Vectors."
Host: Diane Ullman, Associate Dean of Undergraduate Academic Programs at the UC Davis College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences,  and professor, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology

Feb. 19 
Kelly Hamby, doctoral candidate studying with major professor Frank Zalom, professor of entomology, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology
Title: "Biology and Pest Management of Drosophila suzukii in California Berries and Small Fruits" 
Host: Frank Zalom, IPM specialist and professor of entomology

Feb. 26
David Hughes, assistant professor, Entomology, Millenium Science Complex, University Park, Penn.
Title: "Zombie Ants: the Precise Manipulation of Animal Behavior by a Microbe"
Host: Joanna Chiu, assistant professor, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology

March 5
Matan Shelomi, doctoral candidate studying with major professor Lynn Kimsey, Bohart Museum of Entomology and professor of entomology at UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology
Title: "Digestive Physiology of the Phasmatodea"

March 12
Nazzy Pakpour, postdoctoral scholar, Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, UC Davis School of Medicine
Title: "The Effects of Ingested Human Insulin on Malaria Transmission"