UC Berkeley professor Rosemary Gillespie, an evolutionary biologist who discovered an adaptive radiation of Tetragnatha spiders and went on to work on the systematics and evolutionary ecology of the lineage, will be the next UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology seminar speaker.

UC Integrated Pest Management (UC IPM) entomology advisor Dylan Beal, UC Agriculture and Natural Resources Program, will be the lead-off speaker of the 2025 UC Davis Entomology and Nematology's winter seminar series.