Seminars are Fridays at 11 AM (refreshments at 10:45) in room 230 of the Marley Building.
Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
1-Sep | Fall Welcome Reception, Marley Lobby | xxxxxxxxxx | xxxxxxxxxx |
8-Sep | Rebecca McQuade, PERT Postdoc | Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, UA | "Exploring a novel type six secretion system in the insect-pathogenic bacterium Xenorhabdus bovienii" |
15-Sep | Diana Wheeler, Professor | Dept. of Entomology, UA |
"Entomology unleashed: Historical constraints and a vision of a future of our Departments" |
22-Sep | Gillian Gile, Assistant Professor | School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University | "Evolution and transmission of termite hindgut symbiotic protozoa" |
29-Sep | Hagedorn Speaker: Barrett Klein, Associate Professor | Dept. of Biology, U. Wisconsin - La Crosse | "Honey bee communication: the tale of a sleep-deprived dancer and her unwitting followers" |
6-Oct | Insect Festival Cast Party | xxxxxxxxxx | no seminar - Attend the Insect Festival Cast Party! Room: Marley Atrium |
13-Oct | Michael Riehle, Professor | Dept. of Entomology, UA | "Manipulating mitochondrial dynamics in mosquitoes: A novel approach to controlling pathogen transmission" |
20-Oct | Alison Ravenscraft, PERT Postdoc | Hunter Laboratory, Dept. of Entomology, UA | "Where do insect gut flora come from? Patterns and implications of environmental symbiont acquisition in bugs and butterflies" |
27-Oct | Carolina Barillas-Mury, M.D., Ph.D. * | National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH | "Plasmodium evasion of mosquito immunity and malaria transmission" |
3-Nov | Andrew Clark, Professor | Joint appt. Dept. of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Dept. of Biological Statistics and Computational Biology, Cornell U. | "CRISPR gene drive approaches to population modification" |
10-Nov | Veterans Day | xxxxxxxxxx | no seminar |
17-Nov | Sarah Kocher, Associate Research Scholar ** | Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton U. | "The interplay of genes and ecology in the evolution of social behavior" |
24-Nov | Thanksgiving | xxxxxxxxxx | no seminar |
1-Dec | Laura Burkle, Assistant Professor ** | Dept. of Ecology, Montana State University | "Spatiotemporal effects of wildfire on plant-pollinator diversity" |
* Co-sponsored by Chemistry and Biochemistry
** Sponsored by the CIS PERT program