Jared P. Jensen, field research manager at SAN Agrow, will present a seminar hosted by the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology (ENT), on Monday, April 28 on "Crop Protection Product Development: An Insider's Perspective."

His seminar begins at 4:10 p.m. in Room 122, Briggs Hall, and also will be on Zoom. The Zoom link: https://ucdavis.zoom.us/j/95882849672.

UC Davis doctoral alumna Fiona Goggin, professor of entomology and plant pathology at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, will speak on "Plant Defensive Signaling and Its Impacts on Herbivory, Plant Growth, and Development" at the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology seminar on Monday, April 21.

Mosquito researcher Ryan Smith, an associate professor in Iowa State University's Department of Plant Pathology, Entomology and Microbiology, will deliver the next UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology seminar.

Mitzy Porras, assistant professor of global change ecology in the Department of Biology,  San Francisco State University, will present a UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology seminar on Feb. 10 on "Manipulation of Plant and Insect Phenotypes."

Porras will speak at 4:10 p.m., Monday, Feb. 10 in 122 Briggs Hall and via Zoom. The Zoom link: https://ucdavis.zoom.us/j/95882849672/

Postdoctoral scholar Angie Lenard of the University of Nevada, Reno, will speak on "Insects in Human-Modified Environments" at the next UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology seminar, set for 4:10 p.m., Monday, Jan. 13 in Room 122 Briggs Hall. Her seminar also will be on Zoom. The link: https://ucdavis.zoom.us/j/95882849672.

Research plant pathologist Inga Zasada of the USDA-ARS Horticultural Crops Research Laboratory, Corvallis, Ore., will speak on "How an Applied Nematologist Uses Genomic Tools to Address Plant-Parasitic Nematode Research" at a Monday, Dec. 2nd seminar hosted by the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology.

"Nematodes as Bioindicators of Soil Health and Climate Resiliency."

That's the title of the next UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology seminar, to be presented Monday, Nov. 25 by Christine Sprunger, associate professor of soil science at Michigan State University (MSU).

André Custodio Franco, assistant professor, Indiana University, Bloomington, will speak on "Deciphering the Soil Macrobiome: Belowground Communities Driving Ecosystem Responses to Global Change" at the next UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology seminar.

The seminar is set for 4:10 p.m., Monday, Nov. 18 in Room 122 of Briggs Hall. 

Jolene Saldivar, a UC Davis Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow in the lab of Professor Louie Yang, will speak on "Disturbance in Coastal Sage Scrub and the Implications for Migratory Butterflies" at the next UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology seminar.

Ecologist Andrew Corbett, a research associate with the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology (ENT), will speak on "In Silico Experiments with the Effect of Natural Habitats on Biological Control in Agricultural Landscapes" at the next department seminar, set for 4:10 p.m., Monday, Oct. 21 in Room 122 of Briggs Hall.

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