Posts Tagged: Research Scholars Program in Insect Biology
Meet a UC Davis Student Who Is Researching the Cold-Adapted Parnassian Butterflies
Move over, monarchs butterflies. The cold-adapted Parnassian butterflies don't get nearly as much attention as the iconic monarchs that migrate to overwintering spots, but a UC Davis entomology student's research may help change all that. Gary...
A mating pair of Parnassius clodius, known as cold-adapted butterflies. (Photo by Gary Ge)
It's a Good Day When Nematodes Make the News
In an era when folks say they have no clue what nematology is, it's gratifying to see it make the headlines. At least, the UC Davis headlines! We're delighted to see that UC Davis undergraduate student Juan Amado “Ado” Sales, a member of...
Congratulations, Louie Yang, NACADA's Top Faculty Academic Advisor
Congratulations to community ecologist Louie Yang of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, the newly announced recipient of an international award for his outstanding academic advising activities. What an honor and so...
Community ecologist Louie Yang is the recipient of an international award for his academic advising. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Everyone Wins! (Except the Spotted-Wing Drosophila)
It's great to see Jessica West, a member of Joanna Chiu's molecular genetics lab in the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology and a member of the Research Scholars Program in Insect Biology. receive the undergraduate student award...
UC Davis undergraduate student Jessica West, who is majoring in biochemistry and molecular biology, has just received the UC Davis undergraduate award President's Global Food Initiative Student Fellowship Program. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The Scholar and the Walnut Twig Beetle
Most people have never seen the walnut twig beetle, a tiny insect that spreads a fungal pathogen that kills walnut trees. No wonder. The insect, measuring about 1.5 millimeters long, is much smaller than a grain of rice. Now, however, they...
Kristina Tatiossian and the ceramic mosaic of a walnut twig beetle. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The poster that Kristina Tatiossian created. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)