All seminars will be held at 12:10 p.m. on Wednesday, Pacific Time, and will include both in-person and virtual seminars.
The in-person seminars will take place in Room 122 of Briggs Hall, located off Kleiber Hall Drive. Seminars may be recorded at the speaker’s discretion.
Both virtual and in-person seminars will be broadcast via the Zoom meeting software package (https://ucdavis.zoom.us/j/95882849672).
Wednesday, Sept. 30:
“Citrus Entomology and the Impact on Global Fruit Production"
Godwin Nutifafa Gidiglo
Entomologist, Postdoctoral Scholar
UC Davis Department of Environmental Toxicology
Wednesday, Oct. 7:
"Choreographing Reproduction: Redefining Sex Steroid Hormone Mechanisms in Aedes aegyptiMosquitoes"
Mackenzie Yedlin, PhD Candidate
The Rockefeller University
Wednesday, Oct. 14:
"Evolutionary Genomics of the Drosophila Sperm Storage System"
Rachel Thayer, Postdoctoral Scholar
David Begun Lab, UC Davis Department of Evolution and Ecology
Wednesday, Oct. 21:
"Evolution and Stability of Interdependence in Insect–Microbe Symbioses"
Younghwan Kwak, Ph.D
University of California, Merced
Wednesday, Oct. 28:
To Be Determined
Shahid Siddique, Professor
UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology
Wednesday, Nov. 4:
“Advancing Data Generation, Integration, and Application to Mitigate Insect Declines”
Mike Belitz, Assistant Professor
Department of Entomology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Wednesday, Nov. 18:
"Chromosomes, Genomes, and Beyond: Unraveling the Evolution and Pathogenicity of Plant-Parasitic Nematodes"
Dadong Dai, Postdoctoral Researcher
UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology
Wednesday, Dec. 2:
To Be Determined
Marm Kilpatrick, Professor
Department of Ecology an Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz