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| Brian Johnson, assistant professor of entomology at UC Davis, will speak on "Organization of Work in the Honey Bee" at 12:10 p.m., Friday, Feb. 17 in 6 Olson Hall. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey) |
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| Tom Seeley, professor in the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior at Cornell University, will speak on "The Flight Guidance Mechanisms of Honey Bee Swarms" at 12:10 p.m., Friday, Jan. 20 in 6 Olsen Hall. Host is Brian Johnson of the UC Davis Department of Entomology. |
DAVIS--Two lectures on honey bees are among the topics planned at the UC Davis Animal Behavior Graduate Group (ABGG) winter seminar series, which will open Jan. 13 and continue through March 16. All will be on Fridays at 12:10 in 6 Olson Hall. (Download flier)
The line-up:
Jan. 13: Walt Koenig, Cornell University, “Fitness Consequences of Cooperative Breeding in the Acorn Woodpecker” (Host: Alan Krakauer, ahkrakauer@ucdavis.edu)
Jan. 20: Tom Seeley, Cornell University, “The Flight Guidance Mechanisms of Honey Bee Swarms.” (Host: Brian Johnson, UC Davis Department of Entomology, brnjohnson@ucdavis.edu)
Jan. 27: Amanda Izzo, UC Davis Department of Entomology, “Spotting the Top Male: Sexual Selection in a Lekking Paper Wasp.”
Feb. 3: Sean Fogerty, UC Davis, ABGG Exit Seminar: “Ecological Effects of Mosquitofish Personality: From Individual Behavior to Landscape Outcomes.”
Feb. 10: Madhusudan Katti, California State, Fresno, “Of Fast Junk Food, Urban Jive, and Homelessness: the Behavioral Ecology of City Life” (Host: Tom Hahn, tphahn@ucdavis.edu)
Feb. 17: Brian Johnson, UC Davis Department of Entomology, “Organization of Work in the Honey Bee”
Feb. 24: Storer Lecture: Ruth Newbury, Washington State university, “Behavioral Assessment of Affective States in Animals” (Host: Jennifer Chen, jmchen@ucdavis.edu)
March 2: Christoph Winckler, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, ‘The Function of Allogrooming in Dairy Cattle” (Host: Cass Tucker, cbtucker@ucdavis.edu)
March 9: ABGG Exit Seminar, Danielle Brown, UC Davis and Middle Tennessee State University, “Observing the Invisible through Acceleration Logging of Animal Movements and Behavior”
March 16: ABGG Exit Seminar: Maxine Zylberberg, UC Davis and Cal Academy “Disease Defense Stategies: Linking Behavior, Immune System and Disease Ecology in Galapagos and House Finches”
Contact information:
College of Biological Sciences Dean's Office
Animal Behavior Graduate Group
310 Life Sciences Bldg.
University of California, Davis
One Shields Avenue
Davis, CA 95616-5294
Phone: (530) 752-2981
--Kathy Keatley Garvey
Communications specialist
UC Davis Department of Entomology
(530) 754-6894
