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
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
Pollinator Conservation Specialist, Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation
March 3
NO SEMINAR - Spring Break
March 10
NO SEMINAR - SEB
March 17
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 31
Assistant Professor, Entomology and Nematology Department
University of Florida
April 7
Associate Director/Associate Professor
Insect Neurophysiology and Toxicology, University of Florida
April 14
NO SEMINAR - Lund Week
April 21
Assistant Professor, Department of Entomology
University of California, Riverside