Seminars

Seminars are Thursdays at 4 PM (refreshments at 3:45) in room 230 of the Marley Building.

Date Name Institution Title
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!
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
Dec. 1 Wendy Moore
UA Dept. of Entomology Molecular phylogenies reveal striking convergent evolution and explosive
radiation of ant nest beetles in Madagascar