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).
April 01, 2026
Dr. Adekunle Adesanya
Corteva Agriscience
Title: Between consumerism(economics) and evolutionary adaptations in agroecosystems; lessons from generalist herbivore pests
April 08, 2026
Dr. Mohammad Amir Aghaee
Cal Poly, Strawberry Center
Title: Berries vs Bugs: Challenges in integrated pest management in California strawberry production
April 15, 2026
Dr. Iris Saraeny Rivera-Salinas
UC Santa Cruz, Postdoctoral Fellow
Title: Uncovering the Complexities Behind Ecosystem Services: Pest and Disease Control
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April 22, 2026
Dr. Sean Leonard
Lawrence Livermore National Lab, Synthetic Biology Group
Title: Engineering honey bee gut bacteria to activate immunity and limit pathogens
April 29, 2026
Dr. Karthikeyan Chandrasegaran
UC Riverside, Department of Entomology
Title: Network-Based Inferences in Mosquito Transcriptomics
May 06, 2026
Dr. Lyna Ngor
UC Irvine, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Title: Exploring Flower-Mediated Wolbachia Transmission: A Self-Sustaining Approach to Mosquito-Borne Disease Control
May 13, 2026
Dr. Magda Argueta-Guzmán
UC Merced, Department of Life & Environmental Sciences
Title: More than just flowers: resource use in native bees
May 20, 2026
Dr. Bao-Lam Huynh
UC Riverside, Department of Nematology
Title: Genetic analysis and markers-assisted breeding for host plant resistance to root-knot nematodes and other stresses in cowpea
May 27, 2026
Dr. David Holway
UC San Diego, Department of Ecology, Behavior, & Evolution
Title: Large-scale removal of introduced ants as a test of community reassembly