Thursdays, 4:00 p.m., Minnie Belle Heep Center, Room 101
Pre-seminar refreshments at 3:30 p.m., 4th floor atrium, Minnie Belle Heep Center
January 24
Jennifer Rudgers, Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Rice University
“Small fungi with big impacts: community-level
consequences of mutualisms between fungal endophytes and grasses”
Hosted by: Raul Medina
January 31
Blake Bextine, Dept. of Biology, University of Texas – Tyler
“Pierce’s disease in Texas: implications of a
multiple vector, strain, and host plant system”
Hosted by: Kevin Heinz
February 7
Robert Puckett (PhD student with Marvin Harris)
“Insights into the role of introduced phorid flies in the
management of red imported fire ants”
Hsiao-Ling Lu (PhD student with Patricia Pietrantonio)
“Localization of vitellogenin receptor in the red imported fire ant”
Joshua Jones (PhD student with John Oswald)
“Collection of Neuroptera and other arthropods in the Philippines”
Hosted by: Kevin Heinz
February 21
Marc Branham, Dept. of Entomology, University of Florida
“The evolution of fireflies and their sexual signals”
Hosted by: Joshua Jones (and the Oswald lab)
February 28
Maria Tchakerian, Dept. of Entomology, TAMU
“Landscape ecology in entomology research, development, and applications”
Hosted by: Robert Coulson
March 20
Ludek Zurek, Dept. of Entomology, Kansas State University
“Microbial ecology of muscoid flies: ecological, behavioral,
and public health aspects”
Hosted by: Jeff Tomberlin
March 27
Ke Dong, Dept. of Entomology, Michigan State University
“Insect sodium channels and insecticide resistance”
Hosted by: Brad Hopkins (and the Pietrantonio lab)
April 3
Larry Hanks, Dept. of Entomology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
“Chemical communication in the longhorned beetles”
Hosted by: Micky Eubanks
April 10
*1st Annual Perry Adkisson Distinguished Speaker Award*
CANCELED
Consuelo De Moraes, Dept. of Entomology, Penn State University
“The role of plant volatiles in mediating interactions among plants and insects”
Hosted by: Joshua Jones (Graduate Students)
April 17
Steve Roberts, Dept. of Biological Sciences, University of Nevada-Las Vegas
“Development, mechanisms and limits of insect aerodynamic performance”
Hosted by: Spence Behmer
April 24
David Holway, Div. of Biological Sciences, University of California San Diego
“Community susceptibility to invasion by ants”
Hosted by: Micky Eubanks