Malaria mosquito, Anopheles gambiae. (Photo by Anthony Cornel, UC Davis)

All will take place from 12:10 to 1 p.m. on Wednesdays in 122 Briggs Hall, Kleiber Hall Drive.

The winter seminar series:

Wednesday, Jan. 6
Mike Riehle
Associate Professor, University of Arizona
Title: "Manipulating Insulin Signaling in the Mosquito to Control Fitness and Parasite Resistance"
Host: Shirley Luckhart, professor, Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, and graduate student advisor, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology

Wednesday, Jan. 13
Wayne Hunter
Ph.D. Research Entomologist, USDA-ARS, Fort Pierce, FL.
Title: "Topical RNAi for Pest and Pathogen Management: Meeting the Needs of Organic and Industrial Producers."
Host: Diane Ullman, professor. UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology

Wednesday, Jan. 20
Sulley Ben-Mahmoud
Postdoc, UC Davis
Title: "Cloning and Characterization of a Basic Cysteine-like Protease (cathepsin L1) Expressed in the Gut of Larval Diaprepes abbreviatus L. (Coleoptera: Curculionidae).
Host: Diane Ullman, professor, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology

Wednesday, Jan. 27
J. P. Michaud 
Professor, Kansas State University
Title: "Challenges to the Management of Migratory Pests on the High Plains: Thinking Outside the Field."
Host: Ed Lewis, associate dean for agricultural sciences in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, and professor, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology

Wednesday, Feb. 3
David Tarpy 
Professor and  Apiculturist, North Carolina State University
Title: Young Regality: a Day in the Life of a Virgin Queen Bee
Host: Elina Niño, Extension apiculturist, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology

Wednesday, Feb. 10
Thomas Phillips
Professor, Kansas State University
Title: "Pest Management for Stored Products: Persistent Problems and Hopeful Possibilities"
Host: Christian Nansen, assistant professor, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology

Wednesday, Feb. 17
Patrick O'Grady 
Associate Professor, UC Berkeley
Title: "Diversification of Hawaiian Diptera"
Host: Joanna Chiu, assistant professor, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology

Wednesday, Feb. 24
Michael Kolomiets
Professor of Maize Defense Genetics, Texas A&M
Title: "Maize Lipid-Mediated Signaling in Defense against Insects and Nematodes"
Host: Christian Nansen, assistant professor, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology

Wednesday, March 2
Yannick Wurm 
Assistant Professor, Queen Mary University London
Title: "Population Genomics of Social Evolution"
Host: Brian Johnson, assistant professor, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology

Wednesday, March 9
Diane Campbell  
Professor, UC Irvine
Title: "Behavior of Hawkmoths and Plant Reproductive Isolation: a Tale of Two Continents"
Host: Rachel Vannette, assistant professor, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology

The seminars are open to all interested persons.