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Last of Its Generation
Look, over there! It's Thanksgiving Week and there's a newly eclosed Gulf Fritillary on a tattered pink zinnia "that looks as it has seen better days," as my mother used to say. The orange of autumn exploding, the silver of yultide beckoning....
A newly eclosed Gulf Fritillary suns itself on a zinnia in a Vacaville garden. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The Gulf Fritillary shows its silver-spangled wings. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A splash of yellow behind the Gulf Fritillary. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bruce Hammock and 'Why Science Is Full of Surprises'
It's good to see UC Davis distinguished professor Bruce Hammock and his 50-plus years of incredible research in the news. Reporter Juliette Smith of KTXL Fox40 News (she holds a master's degree in broadcast reporting and production,...
UC Davis distinguished professor Bruce Hammock is interviewed by Juliette Smith of Fox40 News. (Screen shot of Hammock in his lab, courtesy of Fox40 News)
UC Davis Alumna Inga Zasada to Present Dec. 2nd Seminar on Nematodes
UC Davis doctoral alumna Inga Zasada of the USDA-ARS Horticultural Crops Research Laboratory in Corvallis, Ore., will return to her alma mater on Monday, Dec. 2 when she speaks on "How an Applied Nematologist Uses Genomic...
Inga Zasada, who received her doctorate in plant pathology in 2002 from UC Davis and is now a research plant pathologist with USDA-ARS, will present a seminar on Dec. 2 in 122 Briggs Hall.
Outstanding Group of UC Davis Graduate Students at ESA Meeting
Graduate students with the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology excelled at the recent Entomological Society of America meeting in Phoenix. Eleven members of the UC Davis Entomology Graduate Student Association (EGSA) delivered...
Standing behind the ESA motif are UC Davis doctoral candidates Christofer Brothers, CC Edwards and Lexie Martin.
UC Davis doctoral student Iris Quayle of the Jason Bond lab discussing her research on "A (Finally) Complete Phylogeny for the Charismatic Genus Onymacris Using Ultraconserved Elements." (Photo courtesy of Lexie Martin)
Doctoral student Briley Mullin of Ian Grettenberger lab speaking on "Evaluating the Use of Predatory Plant Bugs (Hemiptera: Miridae) as Biological Control Against the Invasive South American Tomato Leaf Miner (Tuta absoluta) in California Tomato Fields." (Photo courtesy of Lexie Martin)
UC Davis doctoral candidate Lexie Martin of the Rachel Vannette lab presenting her work on "Microbial Acquisition and Interactions in the Blue Orchard Bee (Osmia lignaria)"
UC Davis doctoral student Abigail Lehner of the Neal Williams lab discussing "Do Blue Orchard Bees (Osmia lignaria) Exhibit Plastic Behavior in Response to Parasitism by the Non-Native Houdini fly (Cacoxenus indagator)?" (Photo courtesy of Lexie Martin)
UC Davis Entomology Graduate Student Association members--Ziv Lieberman, Iris Quayle and CC Edwards--offering entomology T-shirts, all designed by members. They can be ordered online at https://ucdavisentgrad.square.site.
A view of the crowd from the UC Davis Entomology Graduate Student Association (EGSA) T-shirt booth. (Photo courtesy of Lexie Martin)
Congrats to Mia Lippey and Ziv Lieberman, UC Davis Entomology Doctoral Candidates
Congrats to two UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology doctoral candidates: Mia Lippey and Ziv Lieberman. Lippey, mentored by UC Davis distinguished professor emeritus Jay Rosenheim and assistant professor Emily...
