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Häagen-Dazs Postdoctoral Fellow Michelle Flenniken of UC Davis (and a researcher at UC San Francisco) will discuss her honey bee research on Oct. 28. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Upcoming Seminars

ENTOMOLOGY SEMINAR SCHEDULE
Fall Quarter, 2009
All seminars from 12:10 to 1 p.m., 122 Briggs Hall
Coordinator: Neal Williams
Entomology 297N*
Listen live to the Webinars (UC Seminar Network)
See Archived Webcasts



Date

Speaker

Seminar Title

Wednesday,
Oct. 7

Madoka Nakai
Associate professor
Tokyo University of Agriculture & Technology
A Novel Protein from Lepidopteran Virus Killing Endoparasitoid and Viral Control for Tea Pests in Japan
Link to archived Webcast

Wednesday,
Oct. 14

Dean Kelch
Assistant researcher
University and Jepson Herbaria
University of California, Berkeley
Mimicking Science Interpretation:  A Visit to the Creation Museum
(Note: This seminar was not Webcast)
Wednesday,
Oct. 21
James R. Carey
Professor
UC Davis Department of Entomology

Demography of the Finitude: Insights into Lifespan, Aging and Death from Insect Studies
Link to archived Webcast

Wednesday,
Oct. 28

Michelle Flenniken
UC Davis/UC San Francisco
(Häagen-Dazs Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Davis)
Microarray-Based Pathogen Detection and the Antiviral Role of RNA Interference in Honey Bees
(Note: This seminar was not Webcast due to unpublished data)
Wednesday,
Nov. 4
No seminar (changed to Friday, Nov. 6, see below)  

Friday,
Nov. 6

Jonathan  Gershenzon
Professor
Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology
Jena, Germany

Plant Volatiles: Versatile Agents of Defense
Link to archived Webcast

Nov. 11

Veterans' Day: No Seminar

Wednesday,
Nov. 18

Matt Forister
Assistant professor
Specialization, speciation, insect ecology and phylogeography
University of Nevada-Reno
Anatomy of a Niche Shift: Lycaeides melissa and the Colonization of Alfalfa
Link to archived Webcast
Nov. 25 Thanksgiving Holiday: No Seminar

Wednesday,
Dec. 2

Michael Parrella
Professor and chair
UC Davis Department of Entomology
An International Perspective on Sustainable Production in Greenhouses
Listen live


*Course credit (one unit) for graduate students

Related Seminar

(Webcast by James Harwood, graduate student in James Carey lab, UC Seminar Network)
Wednesday,
Oct. 21
Robert Wingo
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Los Alamos, N. M.
Bringing in the Bee Team (Los Alamos)
Discovery Channel Buzzes Into Los Alamos
Explosives and Narcotics Detection by Monitoring of the Proboscis Extension Reflex in Apis mellifera (Honey Bee)
Link to Archived Webcast

 

 


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This page last updated:    November 20, 2009