Speakers for the winter quarter seminar series, UC Davis Department of Entomology, have been announced by assistant professors Joanna Chiu and Brian Johnson, coordinators.
All will take place from 12:10 to 1 p.m. in Room 1022 of the Life Sciences Addition. Plans are to record the seminars for later posting on UCTV under the coordination of professor James R. Carey.
Winter Quarter 2013
Wednesday, Jan. 9
Erin Wilson
Postdoctoral Associate, University of Maryland
Title: Effects of Omnivorous Invaders on Arthropod Communities in a Fragmented Landscape
Host: Louie Yang
Wednesday, Jan. 16
Michael Branstetter
Buck Postdoctoral Fellow, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
Title: "Uncovering the Origins of a Middle American Ant Radiation: insights from Natural History, Biogeography and Molecular Data."
Host: Phil Ward
Wednesday, Jan. 23
Nick Haddad
William Neal Reynolds Professor of Biology, North Carolina State University
Title: Landscape Conservation for Rare Insects
Host: Neal Williams
Wednesday, Jan. 30
Paul de Barro
Senior Principal Research Scientist, CSIRO ecosystem sciences
Title: Unravelling the Complex Bemisia tabaci (Silverleaf Whitefly): From Biotype to Species
Host: Michael Parrella
Wednesday, Feb. 6
Jim Cane
Entomologist, USDA-ARS Bee Biology Lab
Title: The Spectrum of Managed Nesting for Pollination by Non-Social Bees
Host: Leslie Saul-Gershanz
Wednesday, Feb. 13
Steven Reppert
Higgins Family Professor of Neuroscience, University of Massachusetts Medical School
Title: Monarch Butterfly Migration: Behavior to Genes
Hosts: Joanna Chiu and Hugh Dingle
Wednesday, Feb. 20
Nick Mills
Professor, UC Berkeley
Title: Light Brown Apple Moth – Not a Typical Invader
Host: Mary Louise Flint
Wednesday, Feb. 27
Anupama Dahankar
Assistant Professor, UC Riverside
Title: Taste Receptors and Feeding Preferences in Insects
Host: Joanna Chiu
Wednesday, March 6
Sergio Rasmann
Assistant Professor
UC Irvine Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Title: Ecological, Evolutionary and Genetic Drivers of Plant Defenses against Herbivores
Host: Rick Karban
Wednesday, March 13
Anna Whitfield
Associate Professor, Kansas State University
Title: Dissecting the Molecular Interplay Between Plant Viruses and their Arthropod Vectors
Host: Diane Ullman
--Kathy Keatley Garvey
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UC Davis Department of Entomology
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