Seminars
Seminars are Thursdays at 4 PM (refreshments at 3:45) in room 230 of the Marley Building.
| Date | Name | Institution | Title |
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| Aug. 25 | Welcome Reception | 3:00pm - 5:00pm, EIS welcome reception in the Marley Atrium. Kick off the Fall 2011 semester with food, fun and excellent company! |
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| Sept. 1 | Mike Riehle | UA Dept. of Entomology | Impact of the aging mosquito on disease transmission |
| Sept. 8 | Elizabeth Willott | Tucson Botanical Gardens | What's involved in running a butterfly exhibit? What I do as Butterfly Curator of Tucson Botanical Gardens' Butterfly Magic |
| Sept. 15 | Mike Irwin | Adjunct, UA Dept. of Entomology; Emeritus, Illinois Natural History Survey | Madagascar's Arthropod Diversity: Treasures of an Impoverished Island Nation |
| Sept. 22 | Toby Daley-Engel | UA Center for Insect Science, PERT; UA Dept. of Entomology | The ladies are getting around: promiscuous mating in sharks and water bugs |
| Sept. 29 | Catherine Gehring | Northern Arizona University | Climate Change Impacts On A Host Plant and its Associated Insect Herbivores and Fungal Mutualists |
| Oct. 6 | Spence Behmer | Texas A&M University, Dept. of Entomology |
Insect herbivore nutritional physiology: from individuals to populations and communities |
| Oct. 13 | Dorit Eliyahu | UA Center for Insect Science, PERT; UA Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | Remember to stop and smell the roaches (and the termites, ants, and stink bugs): Exploring communication and defense chemicals in insects. |
| Oct. 20 | Yevgenya Antonova-Koch | UA Dept. of Entomology | Cracking the killing mechanism of a malaria-proof mosquito |
| Oct. 27 | Brian Smith | Arizona State University, School of Life Sciences | Charting distributed neural plasticity in a honey bee brain using behavior, bioimaging, electrophsyiology and genetic mapping |
| Nov. 3 | Wallace (Marty) Meyer | UA Center for Insect Science, PERT; UA Dept. of Entomology | Conservation of invertebrates: species preservation and the functioning of ecosystems |
| Nov. 10 | Kerry Oliver | University of Georgia, Dept. of Entomology | Bacteriophage dynamics in a defensive symbiosis |
| Nov. 17 | GIDP Community Meeting |
4:00pm-5:30pm, Marriott University Park Hotel Canyon Room |
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| Dec. 1 | Wendy Moore |
UA Dept. of Entomology | Molecular phylogenies reveal striking convergent evolution and explosive radiation of ant nest beetles in Madagascar |
