Department of Entomology Seminar Series


All seminars are held on Wednesdays from 12:10-1:00pm in 122 Briggs Hall. Pizza/snacks will be available in 366 Briggs immediately following the seminar. Everyone is welcome.

Spring 2005

Seminar Checklist (PDF)    Seminar Timeline Worksheet (PDF)     ENT297 Attendance Sheet (PDF)
Dates Speakers Seminar Title
April 6
Host: James Carey jrcarey@ucdavis.edu
Sharon Lawler (UCD)
 
Resources in rice fields: how do rice straw management and winter flooding affect aquatic food webs?
April 13
Host: James Carey jrcarey@ucdavis.edu
 Shirley Luckhart (UCD)
Innate immunity and signaling during malaria parasite infection: conserved pathways and cross-talk between mosquitoes and mammals
April 20
Host: Fran Keller, mfkeller@ucdavis.edu & Brian O’Meara, bcomeara@ucdavis.edu
Ulrich Mueller (University of Texas)
 
The evolution of fungiculture in insects: lessons for human agriculture
April 27
Host: Steve Seybold, sseybold@fs.fed.us
Kamal Gandhi (University of  Minnesota)

Responses of sub-boreal forest beetles to a severe wind disturbance event and subsequent fuel reduction activities
May 4
Host: Fran Keller, mfkeller@ucdavis.edu
George Poinar (Oregon State University)

Insects in amber
May 11
Host: Penny Gulan, pigullan@ucdavis.edu
James R. Carey (UCD)  What insects tell us about aging and longevity
May 18
Host: Jay Rosenheim, jarosenheim@ucdavis.edu

Jay Bancroft (USDA)

Dispersal and population ecology in an Agroecosystem: the western tarnished plant bug in the San Joaquin Valley
May 25
Host: Tom Scott, twscott@ucdavis.edu
Arthur Getis (San Diego State University)

Spatial analytic techniques applied to the study of Dengue transmission
June 1
Host: Christine Amer, 530-752-8416
David Morgan (CDFA) Glassy-Winged Sharpshooter biological control in California
June 8
Host: Tom Scott. twscott@ucdavis.edu
David Begun (UCD EVE)

Evolution of Drosophila Acps (accessory gland protein genes)

 


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