Previous Seminars

SPRING QUARTER 2020

January 8, Karen Menuz - Molecular Basis of Insect Olfaction
January 15, Corrie Moreau - Piecing Together the Puzzle to Understand the Evolution of the Ants: Macroevolution to Microbiomes
January 22, Sebastian Eves-van den Akker - Effector Gene Birth in Plant-Parasitic Nematodes: Furnishing the Immunity and Development-Altering 'Tool Box
January 29, Elizabeth Crone - Why Are Monarch Butterflies Declining In The West?
February 5, Andrew Young - The Natural History of Syrphidae: From Pollinators To Parasitoids
February 12, Kevin Rice - Lasers, Drones, And Plant Growth Promoting Fungi: Novel Technologies For IPM
- Drone Demo
- Software Simulation
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

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
October 2, Nathan Schroeder - Endless Worms Most Beautiful
October 9, John Mola - Bumble Bee Movement Ecology and Response to Wildfire
October 16, Rebecca Irwin - The Role of Floral Traits in Pollination and Bee Disease Transmission
October 23, Julian Hillyer - Not So Heartless: Functional Integration of the Immune and Circulatory Systems of Mosquitoes
October 30, Takato Imaizumi - Circadian Timing Mechanisms in Plant-Pollinator Interaction
November 6, Brock Harpur (Not available)
November 13, Don Cipollini - The Potential for Host Switching via Ecological Fitting in the Emerald Ash Borer-host Plant System
November 20, NO SEMINAR
December 4, Jackson Audley - Semiochemical interruption of host selection behavior of the invasive walnut twig beetle, Pityophthorus juglandis

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