March 31, Bob Peterson - Tigers in Yellowstone National Park: Insect Adaptations to Extreme Environments
WINTER QUARTER 2021
January 20, Daniel Hasegawa - Landscape and Molecular Approaches for Managing Thrips and Thrips-transmitted Viruses in the Salinas Valley of California
January 27, Charissa deBekker - What Makes a Zombie Ant Tick? Connecting Genomes with Behavioral Phenomes in Ants, Manipulated by a Fungal Parasite
February 3, Shalene Jha - Plant-Insect Interactions and Ecosystem Services in the Context of Global Change
February 10, Estelí Jimenez-Soto - A Complex Cup of Joe: Biodiversity, Pest Control and Political Ecologies in Mexican Coffee Agroforests
February 17, Brian Weiss - Metabolic Complementation Between Members of the Tsetse Fly Holobiont
February 24, Jessica Kansman - To be an Aphid in a Cruel World: How Abiotic and Biotic Stressors Influence Plant-Insect Interactions
March 3, Monika Gulia-Nuss - Pending (Her research program investigates the fundamental questions related to vector biology and vector-parasite interaction. She is particularly interested in aspects of invertebrate reproductive physiology, nutrient allocation, and vector competence and population genomics)
March 10, Romina Rader - Pending (Her research deals with community ecology in agroecosystems)
February 19, Mercedes Burns - Reproductive Diversity And Sexual Conflict: Opilionid Mating From The Female Perspective
March 4, Brendon Boudinot - Abdomens and Ants: Evolutionary and Phylogenetic Morphology of the Insects
March 11, Mary Salcedo - Hydraulics in an insect wing: how venation patterns affects circulation
FALL QUARTER 2019
September 25, James Nieh -Animal Information Warfare: How Sophisticated Communication May Arise From the Race to Find an Advantage in a Deadly Game Between Honey Bees and Their Predators
