Posts Tagged: worms

Don't Miss the Nematodes at UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day

Don't miss the nematodes at the 12th annual UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day on Saturday, Feb. 18. The daylong event, known as a "Super Science Day"--and free and family friendly--will showcase 11 museums or collections.  It's an opportunity to ask...

Nematologist Shahid Siddique explains some of the display items during a previous UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Nematologist Shahid Siddique explains some of the display items during a previous UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

UC Davis Entomology/Nematology Fall Seminars Begin Wednesday, Sept. 21

The UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology's series of 11 seminars for the fall season will begin Wednesday, Sept. 21 with a presentation on Diabrotica (cornroot worms).  Emily Meineke, assistant professor of urban...

Cornroot worms will be discussed at the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology's first seminar of the fall season. Speaker is assistant professor Nicholas "Nick" Miller of Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago. (Photo of cornfield courtesy of Wikipedia)

Cornroot worms will be discussed at the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology's first seminar of the fall season. Speaker is assistant professor Nicholas "Nick" Miller of Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago. (Photo of cornfield courtesy of Wikipedia)

Makedonka Mitreva and the World of Parasitic Worms, Poverty and Solutions

You'll enter the world of parasitic worms, poverty and solutions when you listen to the virtual seminar hosted by the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology on Wednesday, April 6. Makedonka Mitreva, professor of medicine and genetics,...

The website of Makedonka Mitreva, professor of medicine and genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis

The website of Makedonka Mitreva, professor of medicine and genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis

These Microscopic Parasitic Nematodes or Round Worms Spit Venom

Who knew? Who knew that you, along with billions of other people, could be infected with undetected microscopic parasitic nematodes, or round worms? And that they spit venom? Parasitologist Adler Dillman of UC Riverside knows. In fact,...

A scanning electron micrograph of a nematode, a Steinernema carpocapsae, spitting venom. (Image by Adler Dillman)

A scanning electron micrograph of a nematode, a Steinernema carpocapsae, spitting venom. (Image by Adler Dillman)

UC Davis Commencement Speaker: Upholding the Standard of a Healthy Flatworm

“Nematodes” and “commencement” don't usually appear together in the same sentence. But they did when UC Davis student Hannah Trumbull, a human development major and political science minor from Albany, Calif., delivered her...

Student speaker Hannah Trumbull is flanked by Helene Dillard, dean of the UC Davis College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, and UC Davis Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Ralph Hexter.

Student speaker Hannah Trumbull is flanked by Helene Dillard, dean of the UC Davis College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, and UC Davis Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Ralph Hexter.

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