Professor David Holway of the UC San Diego Department of Ecology, Behavior and Evolution will speak on "Large-Scale Removal of Introduced Ants as a Test of Community Reassembly" at the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology seminar at 12:10 p.m. Wednesday, May 27 in 122 Briggs Hall.

His seminar also will be on Zoom. The link: https://ucdavis.zoom.us/j/95882849672.

Plant breeder, geneticist and nematologist Bao-Lam Huynh of UC Riverside will speak on "Genetic Analysis and Marker-Assisted Breeding for Host Plant Resistance to Root-Knot Nematodes and other Stresses in Cowpea" at the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology (ENT) seminar on Wednesday, May 20.

UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow Magda Argueta-Guzmán of UC Merced will speak on "More Than Just Flowers: Resource Use in Native Bees" at the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology seminar at 12:10 p.m., Wednesday, May 13 in 122 Briggs Hall.

Her seminar also will be on Zoom. The Zoom link: https://ucdavis.zoom.us/j/95882849672

Iris Rivera, a Chancellor Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Santa Cruz, will speak on "Uncovering the Complexities Behind Ecosystem Services: Pest and Disease Control" at the next seminar hosted by the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology.

Her hybrid seminar begins at 12:10 p.m., Wednesday, April 15 in 122 Briggs Hall. The Zoom link: https://ucdavis.zoom.us/j/95882849672. Urban landscape entomologist Emily Meineke, associate professor, is the host. 

UC Davis doctoral alumnus Mohammad Amir Aghaee, the entomology program leader at the California Polytechnic University Strawberry Center, will discuss "Berries vs Bugs: Challenges in Integrated Pest Management in California Strawberry Production" at a seminar hosted by the Department of Entomology and Nematology on Wednesday, April 8.

Evolutionary ecologist and UC Davis alumna Jessica M. Aguilar, a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford University who studies the evolution of diet detoxification in insects, will be the speaker at the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology seminar on Wednesday, Feb. 25. 

Salk Institute plant molecular biologist and assistant professor Lena Müeller of the Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology Laboratory, La Jolla, will speak on "Control of Arbuscular Mycorrhiza Symbiosis by Peptide Hormones" at the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology seminar on Wednesday, Feb. 11.

Her seminar is at 12:10 p.m. in 122 Briggs Hall and also will be on Zoom at https://ucdavis.zoom.us/j/95882849672.

Stacy Philpott, professor of environmental studies at UC Santa Cruz, will speak on "Social, Local, and Landscape Drivers of Arthropod Diversity, Traits, and Networks in Urban Agroecosystems" at the next seminar hosted by the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology.

UC Merced assistant professor Marilia Palumbo Gaiarsa will present a seminar to the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology (ENT) on "From Foraging to Fitness: How Individual Behavior Shapes Plant-Pollinator Interactions" on Wednesday, Nov. 19 in 122 Briggs Hall.

Her seminar, set for 12:10 p.m., also will be on Zoom. The link: https://ucdavis.zoom.us/j/95882849672

Professor Nathan Rank of Sonoma State University, a UC Davis doctoral alumnus, will speak on "Local Adaptation and Population Persistence in a Montane Leaf Beetle" at his seminar to the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology on Wednesday, Nov. 5.

His talk begins at 12:10 p.m. in 122 Briggs Hall and also will be on Zoom. The Zoom link: https://ucdavis.zoom.us/j/95882849672