Seminars

Spring 2025 Seminar Schedule

*All seminars take place on Mondays from 11:30 am- 12:20 pm in Biological Sciences 404A.


January 13

Dr. Amelia Lindsey | Entomology

Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota

"Mechanisms and evolutionary consequences of symbiont-mediated parthenogenesis"

January 27

Dr, Gareth Powell | Entomology and Plant Pathology

Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina

"Beetles through time: unraveling a few threads of evolutionary history"

February 3

Dr. Nobuaki Mizumoto | Entomology and Plant Pathology

Assistant Professor (Termites and Behavioral Ecology), Auburn University

"Evolutionary perspectives of termite collective behavior"

February 10 

Dr Ted Cottrell

Research Entomologist, USDA

"Exploiting the feeding biology of the black pecan aphid for management"

February 17

Dr. Daniel Karp | Wildlife, Fish and Conservation Biology

Associate Professor, University of California, Davis

"Harmonizing Biodiversity Conservation with Food Production Across Agricultural Landscape"

February 24 

Dr Kass Urban-Mead

Pollinator Conservation Specialist, Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation

March 3

NO SEMINAR - Spring Break

March 10

NO SEMINAR - SEB

March 17 

Dr. Hameeda Sultana

Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical and Diagnostic Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine 

University of Tennessee, Knoxville

"The ins and outs of exosome biogenesis in ticks: revealed by the infection of tick-borne flavivirus"

March 24 

Dr. Jordan Croy

Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Entomology 

University of Georgia

March 31 

Dr. Andrew Mongue  

Assistant Professor, Entomology and Nematology Department

University of Florida

April 7 

Dr. Daniel Swale

Associate Director/Associate Professor 

Insect Neurophysiology and Toxicology, University of Florida

April 14

NO SEMINAR - Lund Week

April 21

Dr. Kerry Mauck

Assistant Professor, Department of Entomology 

University of California, Riverside