Posts Tagged: Joanna Chiu

UC Davis Faculty Award Recipients to Be Celebrated May 13

Congratulations again to the recipients of the 2024 UC Davis Academic Senate and Academic Federation awards. As mentioned earlier, two members of the Academic Senate's winners' circle are UC Davis Distinguished Professor Walter Leal of the Department of...

Recipients of the 2024 Academic Senate and Federation Awards include UC Davis Distinguished Professor Walter Leal (top row, far left) and Professor Louie Yang (top row, fifth from left.)(Collage courtesy of UC Davis Dateline)

Recipients of the 2024 Academic Senate and Federation Awards include UC Davis Distinguished Professor Walter Leal (top row, far left) and Professor Louie Yang (top row, fifth from left.)(Collage courtesy of UC Davis Dateline)

UC Davis Professors Leal, Yang and Chiu: Distinguished Awards

(Note: The main UC Davis Department of Entomology news page is at https://entomology.ucdavis.edu.) UC Davis Distinguished Professor Walter Leal: Third Academic Senate Award The saying, “Good things come in threes,” or “Omne trium...

Congrats to Professor Chiu: 'Distinction in Student Mentoring' Award

Congratulations to molecular geneticist-physiologist Joanna Chiu, professor and chair of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology! She's the recipient of the highly competitive "Distinction in Student Mentoring' Award from the Pacific...

Molecular geneticist-physiologist Joanna Chiu working in her lab in 2010, shortly after her arrival at UC Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Molecular geneticist-physiologist Joanna Chiu working in her lab in 2010, shortly after her arrival at UC Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Walter Leal and Team Identify Major Sex Pheromone of Severe Ag Pest

Newly published research led by UC Davis distinguished professor Walter Leal and  Jiao Yin of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, identifies the major sex pheromone receptor gene involved in the unusual 48-hour rhythm...

Male large black chafer beetles, Holotrichia parallela, flying toward a synthetic sex pheromone (in traps). (Photo courtesy of the Walter Leal lab)

Male large black chafer beetles, Holotrichia parallela, flying toward a synthetic sex pheromone (in traps). (Photo courtesy of the Walter Leal lab)

This large black chafer beetle is a calling female (note the tip of the abdomen extruding a pheromone gland). (Photo courtesy of Walter Leal lab)

This large black chafer beetle is a calling female (note the tip of the abdomen extruding a pheromone gland). (Photo courtesy of Walter Leal lab)

UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology Celebrates Fall Social

Newly selected department chair Joanna Chiu welcomed faculty, graduate students and staff at the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology's fall social, held recently in the Putah Creek Lodge. The fall social, billed as "a place...

Outdoing department chair Steve Nadler and incoming department chair Joanna Chiu. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Outdoing department chair Steve Nadler and incoming department chair Joanna Chiu. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Among the doctoral students attending the Department of Entomology and Nematology's fall social were Addie Abrams (left) of the laboratory of Extension agricultural entomologist Ian Grettenberger, and CC Edwards of the laboratory of medical entomologist-geneticist Geoffrey Attardo. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Among the doctoral students attending the Department of Entomology and Nematology's fall social were Addie Abrams (left) of the laboratory of Extension agricultural entomologist Ian Grettenberger, and CC Edwards of the laboratory of medical entomologist-geneticist Geoffrey Attardo. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

The department's fall social at the Putah Creek Lodge was a time to meet and greet faculty, graduate students and staff. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

The department's fall social at the Putah Creek Lodge was a time to meet and greet faculty, graduate students and staff. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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