September 6
Dr. Steve Frank. North Carolina State University.
Title: Can forests take the heat: protecting trees and ecosystem services in a changing climate.
September 13
Dr. Clifford Spiegelman, Department of Statistics, TAMU.
Title: JFK assassination: Chemistry, metallurgy, and statistics increase doubt about lone gunman theory and its implications for forensic entomology.
September 20
Dr. Jose Carlos Verle Rodrigues. University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez.
Title: A science hub for research & education in invasive species
September 27
Dr. Norman Elliott, USDA ARS Plains Area
Title: Cereal aphids and their natural enemies from a landscape ecology and area wide management perspective.
October 4
Dr. Laura Harrington, Cornell University
Title: Blood feeding biology and mating behavior of the arbovirus vectors: Aedes aegypti and Ae. albopictus.
October 11
Dr. Astri Wayadande, Oklahoma State University
Title: Using electropenetrography (EPG) for the study of herbivorous and hematophagous insects.
October 18
Dr. Corrie Moreau, Field Museum of Natural History, University of Chicago
Title: Ants, plants, and bacteria: Symbiosis as a driver of evolutionary diversification.
October 25
Dr. Adriana E. Alvarez, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Salta, Salta, Argentina
Title: Searching for Strategies to Control the Green Peach Aphid on Potato Crops
November 1
Dr. Ada Szczepaniec, Texas A&M University Agrilife Research/TAMU Department of Entomology.
Title: Mechanisms underlying sugarcane aphid-plant host interactions in late – colonized sorghum.
November 8
No Seminar-Seminar Canceled
November 15
No Seminar – Entomological Society of America Meeting in Vancouver
November 22
Thanksgiving Holiday
November 29
Dr. Albert Mulenga, Texas A&M University.
Title: It’s taken so long, should we just give up on tick bite vaccines? Tick saliva proteomics says NOT YET.