Posts Tagged: UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology

Congrats to Danielle Rutkowski: Early Career Entomology Award

We're delighted that microbial ecologist Danielle Rutkowski, a UC Davis doctoral alumna and now a National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellow at Iowa State University, has just received a Royal Entomological Society Early Career Entomology...

This is one of the bumble bees that microbial ecologist Danielle Rutkowski studies: a yellow-faced bumble bee, Bombus vosnesenskii. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

This is one of the bumble bees that microbial ecologist Danielle Rutkowski studies: a yellow-faced bumble bee, Bombus vosnesenskii. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

UC Davis Research Scholars Program in Insect Biology: Meet Kaitai Liu

Back in 2011, three UC Davis entomology faculty members launched the campuswide Research Scholars Program in Insect Biology (RSPIB) to provide "academically strong and highly motivated undergraduates with a closely mentored research experience in...

UC Davis student entomologist Kaitai Liu exults after finding a rain beetle on a field trip. He plans to become an entomology professor and study rain beetles.

UC Davis student entomologist Kaitai Liu exults after finding a rain beetle on a field trip. He plans to become an entomology professor and study rain beetles.

Bohart Museum of Entomology volunteer Kaitai Liu, a UC Davis entomology major, introduces an open house visitor, Eden Jett, 7, of Berkeley, to a stick insect. Eden has her sights set on becoming an entomologist. She and her mother, Peg, brought dragonfly cookies to a 2022 open house themed "Dragonflies and Spiders." (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Bohart Museum of Entomology volunteer Kaitai Liu, a UC Davis entomology major, introduces an open house visitor, Eden Jett, 7, of Berkeley, to a stick insect. Eden has her sights set on becoming an entomologist. She and her mother, Peg, brought dragonfly cookies to a 2022 open house themed "Dragonflies and Spiders." (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

UC Davis Apiculturist: Apivectoring Defined

Do you know what apivectoring is? Bee scientist Elina Lastro Niño, associate professor of Cooperative Extension, Apiculture, and a member of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology (ENT) faculty, defines...

A honey bee heading toward almond blossoms. Managed bees such as bumble bees and honey bees are used to transfer a powder form of a biological control agent from flower to flower. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

A honey bee heading toward almond blossoms. Managed bees such as bumble bees and honey bees are used to transfer a powder form of a biological control agent from flower to flower. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

A yellow-faced bumble bee, Bombus vosnesenskii, foraging on almond blossoms. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

A yellow-faced bumble bee, Bombus vosnesenskii, foraging on almond blossoms. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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.

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.

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)

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)

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 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 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.

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)

A view of the crowd from the UC Davis Entomology Graduate Student Association (EGSA) T-shirt booth. (Photo courtesy of Lexie Martin)

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