Posts Tagged: Steve Nadler

Joanna Chiu: From Scholar to Professor to Department Chair

Scholar, teacher, mentor, researcher, author, collaborator, leader, optimist and administrator. Those are some of the roles of Professor Joanna Chiu, molecular geneticist and physiologist, who advanced from vice chair to chair of the UC Davis Department...

Molecular geneticist-physiologist Joanna Chiu working in her lab. She is the newly appointed chair of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Molecular geneticist-physiologist Joanna Chiu working in her lab. She is the newly appointed chair of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Melissa Mitchum: Those Tricky Nematodes

You can't teach an old dog new tricks? Well, how about nematodes? They can do "tricks," too.  Professor and plant pathology researcher Melissa Mitchum of the Department of Pathology, University of Georgia, willpresent the next UC Davis...

Nematodes use tricks to modulate plant development, says Professor Melissa Mitchum of the University of Georgia's Department of Pathology. She will present a virtual seminar March 9 to the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology. (Photo courtesy of Melissa Mitchum)

Nematodes use tricks to modulate plant development, says Professor Melissa Mitchum of the University of Georgia's Department of Pathology. She will present a virtual seminar March 9 to the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology. (Photo courtesy of Melissa Mitchum)

The Science of Nematodes, Butterflies, Millipedes and Arachnids

Do you know what a nematode is? That's a question that nematologists are frequently asked. Well, just in time for the UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Month (that would be our month of February!), nematologist Steve Nadler, professor and chair of the UC...

Nematologist Steve Nadler, professor and chair of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, presenting a video on nematology. (Screen shot)

Nematologist Steve Nadler, professor and chair of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, presenting a video on nematology. (Screen shot)

UC Davis entomology professor Diane Ullman offers a virtual tour of the Bohart Museum of Entomology's Lepidoptera collection in this video. (Screen shot)

UC Davis entomology professor Diane Ullman offers a virtual tour of the Bohart Museum of Entomology's Lepidoptera collection in this video. (Screen shot)

Senior museum scientist Steve Heydon of the Bohart Museum of Entomology, gives an overview of how the museum collects, preserves and identifies some of its nearly 8 million insects. (Screen shot)

Senior museum scientist Steve Heydon of the Bohart Museum of Entomology, gives an overview of how the museum collects, preserves and identifies some of its nearly 8 million insects. (Screen shot)

Xavier Zahnle, a doctoral student in the Jason Bond lab, talks about common millipedes in the Sacramento-San Francisco region in this video. (Screen shot)

Xavier Zahnle, a doctoral student in the Jason Bond lab, talks about common millipedes in the Sacramento-San Francisco region in this video. (Screen shot)

Entomologist Jeff Smith, who curates the Lepidoptera collection, Bohart Museum of Entomology, explains how to pin and spread butterfly and moths for display. (Screen shot)

Entomologist Jeff Smith, who curates the Lepidoptera collection, Bohart Museum of Entomology, explains how to pin and spread butterfly and moths for display. (Screen shot)

UC Davis doctoral student Lacie Newton of the Jason Bond lab talks about arachnids in her video. (Screen shot)

UC Davis doctoral student Lacie Newton of the Jason Bond lab talks about arachnids in her video. (Screen shot)

UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day and the Fascinating World of Nematodes

Do you know what a nematode is? If you're a gardener, you're aware that nematodes are "microscopic, eel-like roundworms" and that "most troublesome species in the garden are those that live and feed within plant roots most of their lives and those that...

Nematologists Christopher Pagan (foreground) and Corwin Parker, doctoral students in the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, answer questions from the crowd at the UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Nematologists Christopher Pagan (foreground) and Corwin Parker, doctoral students in the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, answer questions from the crowd at the UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Nematologist Corwin Parker, doctoral student, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, answers a question about nematode parasites. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Nematologist Corwin Parker, doctoral student, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, answers a question about nematode parasites. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

A Nematologist, Aquatic Entomologist and a Community Ecologist Walked Into...

Did you hear about the nematologist, aquatic entomologist and the community ecologist who walked into the International House at the University of California, Davis? Sounds like a great story, right? Make that great cookies. They weren't there to...

The UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology hosted a holiday party at the International House, UC Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

The UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology hosted a holiday party at the International House, UC Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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