Jan. 14


Wally Thurman
Agricultural and Resource Economics, NCSU
"The Economics of Honeybee Pollination Markets."

Jan. 21


Martin Luther King, Jr. Day - Holiday

 


Jan. 28
Dr. Zsofia Szendrei
USDA-ARS
Invasive Insect Biocontrol and Behavior Laboratory
“Increasing plant species diversity to manage insect pests”

Jan. 31


John Hildebrand,
University of Arizona

Keck Seminar Speaker -
"Explorations of a ‘Simple’ Olfactory System."
Note: 101 David Clark Laboratories, 4:00pm; reception at 3:30pm


Feb. 4


Mike Scharf
Dept. of Entomology & Nematology, University of Florida
"Termite Genomics: New insights into caste differentiation and lignocellulose digestion."

Feb. 11


Mike Rust
Dept. of Entomology
University of California at Riverside
Vince Parman Memorial Lecture -
"In search of a new paradigm in structural pest control."

Feb. 18


Rick Brandenburg
Department of Entomology,
North Carolina State University


"Plant IPM: Where did all the answers go and what does Al Gore know that we don't?"

Feb. 25


Fred Dietrich
Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy, Duke University

"Milkweed bugs and fungal genomics."

Mar. 3


Spring Break



Mar. 10
Kier Klepzig
USDA-Forest Service
Pineville, LA


"Pestis symbiotica: Mutualistic associations in forest pestilence."


Mar. 17


Catherine Hill ,
Department of Entomology,
Purdue University


"Tick genome organization and evolution: Insights from the Ixodes scapularis genome sequence"

Mar. 24


Michael Poulsen,
Department of Bacteriology,
University of Wisconsin-Madison


"Conflict and cooperation in fungus-growing ant mutualisms."

Mar. 31


Francisco Ayala
School of Biological Sciences,
University of California - Irvine


Keck Seminar Speaker -
"The Evolutionary Roots of Moral Behavior."
Location TBA

Apr. 7


Jake Tu
Department of Biochemistry,
VPI &SU


"Mosquito biology and control of mosquito-borne diseases: a genomics perspective."


Apr. 14


Heather Hines
Department of Entomology,
Univ. Illinois Urbana-Champaign


"Historical biogeographic patterns and the evolution of mimetic coloration in bumble bees."

Apr. 21
Dewayne Shoemaker
CMAVE, USDA-ARS
Gainesville, FL


"Population genetics of the invasive fire ant Solenopsis invicta."


Apr. 28
Final Exams



May 5
Jim Tumlinson
Center for Chemical Ecology,
The Pennsylvania State University


“Chemical Ecology of Tritrophic Insect-Plant Interactions”.