Thursdays, 4:00 p.m., Minnie Belle Heep Center, Room 103
Pre-seminar refreshments at 3:30 p.m., 4th floor atrium, Minnie Belle Heep Center
Adrianna Szczepaniec, Dept. of Entomology, Texas A&M University
“Mechanisms underlying interactions between
arthropod herbivores and their plant hosts in managed landscapes”
** Graduate Student Recognition and Award Seminar **
Katelyn Chalaire (MS student with Albert Mulenga)
“The biological and biochemical analysis of a tick-encoded serine protease inhibitor (S6)
and its role in the feeding cycle of Amblyomma americanum”
Aaron Dickey (PhD student with Raul Medina)
“Testing host associated differentiation in
insects feeding on native trees”
Paul Lenhart (PhD student with Spencer Behmer and Micky Eubanks)
“The nutrient landscape of a plant community and
its impact on niche partitioning in grasshoppers”
Hubi Amrein, Department of Molecular and Cellular Medicine, Texas A&M University
“The function of taste and pheromone receptors in Drosophila feeding and mating behaviors”
Saskya van Nouhuys, Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University
“Spatial population dynamics of parasitoid wasps”
Le Kang, Institute of Zoology, the Chinese Academy of Science
“Synchronization of biological rhythms in a tritrophic system”
***SEMINAR HAS BEEN CANCELED!!!***
Malcolm Fraser, Dept. of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame
“The Lepidopteran-derived piggyBac transposon and
its utility in genetic engineering of insects”
Andy Deans, Dept. of Entomology, North Carolina State University
“Development and implementation of the Hymenoptera anatomy ontology”
Angela Douglas, Dept. of Entomology, Cornell University
“Sweet problems and symbiotic solutions: how aphids utilize plant phloem sap”
Tony Frankino, Dept. of Biology, University of Houston
“The Evolution of multivariate behavioral and morphological trait suites”
Spencer Johnston, Dept. of Entomology, Texas A&M University
“The proximate and ultimate control of aging in natural populations of Drosophila.”