Thursdays, 4:00 p.m., Heep Center, Room 103
Pre-seminar refreshments at 3:30 p.m., 4th floor atrium, Minnie Belle Heep Center
Sept 5:
Nancy Moran, University of Texas Austin
Title: “Genome Evolution in Insect Endosymbionts”
Hosted by: Juliana Rangel-Posada
Special Seminar reception held from 3:00 – 4:00, 4th Floor Atrium, Minnie Belle Heep Center
Sept. 12:
Subba Palli, University of Kentucky
Title: “RNAi Application in Physiology and Control of Insects”
Hosted by: Patricia Pietrantonio
Sept. 19:
Megha Parajulee, Department of Entomology, Texas A&M University
Title: “Twenty Years of Cotton Entomology Applied Research in Texas:
History, Livelihood, Science and Technological Changes”
Hosted by: David Ragsdale
Sept. 26:
Ian Kaplan, Purdue University
Title: “Recruiting Carnivorous Insects with Plant Volatiles for Tri-trophic Crop Protection”
Hosted by: Micky Eubanks
Oct. 2:
**Wednesday – Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Koldus Bldg, Room 110**
Mohamed Noor, Duke University
Title: “Recombination Rate Influences Adaptation and
Speciation in the Drosophila Pseudoobscura Species Group”
Hosted by: Aaron Tarone
October 10:
Fernando Vega, United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service
***THIS SEMINAR HAS BEEN CANCELLED***
Title: “The Biological Complexity of the Coffee Berry Borer”
Hosted by: Gregory Sword
October 17:
Michael Kanost, Kansas State University
Title: “Biochemistry of Blue Blood: Hemolymph proteins that regulate immune responses in Manduca sexta”
Hosted by: Patricia Pietrantonio
October 24:
Jonathan Parrot, Department of Entomology, Texas A&M University
Title: “The Applications of Next Generation Sequencing in Forensic Entomology: Ancient to Contemporary
Hosted by: Aaron Tarone
October 31
No seminar scheduled
November 7
Keith Maggert, Texas A&M University
Title: “Diet-Induced Changes to the Genome: a potential epigenetic mechanism”
Hosted by: Aaron Tarone
November 14
No Seminar Scheduled
November 21
Pete Teel, Department of Entomology, Texas A&M University
Title: “Tick-Host-Landscape Interactions: A One-Health Perspective”
Hosted by: Cecilia Tamborindeguy
November 28:
No seminar scheduled