March 16, 2010
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| Florian Altermatt will speak on "Butterflies and Moths" at the May 26th seminar. See his biosketch below. |
DAVIS--Pollination ecologist Neal Williams, assistant professor, UC Davis Department of Entomology and coordinator of the department’s spring seminars, has announced the list of speakers.
The seminars will be held every Wednesday, from March 31 through May 26, from 12:10 to 1 p.m. in 122 Briggs Hall. Many are scheduled to be webcast. (Listen live)
The list:
March 31: Julien Pelletier, postdoctoral scholar with the Walter Leal lab, speaking on “Mining the Genome for Olfactory Proteins.” Host: Professor Walter Leal (Note: this was not be webcast)
April 7: Michael Parrella, professor and chair of the Department of Entomology, speaking on “An International Perspective on Sustainability in Protected Cropping Systems with an Emphasis on Biological Control.” Watch archived webcast.
April 14: Dan Potter, professor of urban landscape, University of Kentucky, Lexington, speaking on “Host Location by Plant-Feeding Scarabs.” Host: Michael Parrella, professor and department chair. Watch archived webcast.
April 21: Tim Coulson, professor of population biology, Imperial College, London, currently at Stanford, speaking on “The Joint Dynamics of Populations, Life Histories and Heritable Characters in Free-Living Populations.” Host: Professor Jim Carey. Watched archived webcast.
April 28: Vojtech Novotny, professor, Institute of Entomology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic, speaking on “Ecology of Plant-Insect Food Webs in Tropical Rainforests, Particularly in Papua, New Guinea.”.Host: Marcel Rejmanek. (The professor's lecture and stay in Davis is funded by the Storer Endowment Funds.) Watch archived webcast.
May 5: Michal Segoli, postdoctoral scholar, Center for Population Biology, Jay Rosenheim lab, UC Davis Department of Entomology, speaking on “Joint Parent-Offspring Control of Brood Size in a Polyembryonic Wasp.” Host: Professor Jay Rosenheim. Watch archived webcast.
May 12: Andrea Lucky, doctoral candidate in the Phil Ward lab, speaking on (exit seminar) “Systematics, Biogeography and Conservation of Ants in Australasia and the Pacific.” Host: Professor Phil Ward. Watch archived webcast.
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| Walnut twig beetle. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey) Click to enlarge. See news story. |
May 19: Steven J. Seybold, Chemical Ecology of Forest Insects, USDA Forest Service, and Department of Entomology affiliate, speaking on “Walnut Twig Beetle and Thousand Cankers Disease: Characterizing an Emergent Threat to Forest and Agroecosystems in North America." Host: Mary Louise Flint, associate director, Integrated Pest Management Program.
See news story. Watch archived webcast.
May 26: Florian Altermatt, postdoctoral researcher, UC Davis Department of Environmental Science and Policy, speaking on “Butterflies and Moths in Central Europe: Natural History, Climate Change and Voltinism.” Host: Professor Phil Ward.
Listen live
To view archived seminars, access this page.
Florian Altermatt
2009:
Postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Davis (Group of M. Holyoak)
2007–2009:
Scientific collaborator at Hintermann & Weber AG, (Ecological Consultancy, Planning and Research); working in the project “Biodiversity monitoring Switzerland”
2007:
Ph.D. at the University of Basel
More about him on his website.
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--Kathy Keatley Garvey
Communications specialist
UC Davis Department of Entomology
(530) 754-6894
