Seminars & Events
Entomology Seminars
(Entomology 250 Seminar)
Located in 1102A of the Genomics building on Monday's at 4:10PM.
Refreshments are served at 3:30 in the Entomology building
Seminar Schedule
Date: April 2, 2012
Speaker: Marce Lorenzen, Depatment of Entomology, NC State University, Raleigh
Title: Secrets of the sacred coleopteran: what we can learn from the Tribolium castaneum genome.
Host: Dahanukar 2-5741
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Date: April 9, 2012
Speaker: Wendy Moore, Department of Entomology, University of Arizona, Tucson
Title: Explosive Radiation, Extreme Phenotypic Diversity, and Striking Convergent Evolution among Ant Nest Bettles (Carabidae: Paussinae: Paussini)
Host: Heraty 2-6351
Date: April 16, 2012
Speaker: David Buchwalter, Department of Environmental and Molecular Toxicology, NC State University, Raleigh
Ttile: TBDHost: Chrissy Mogren 2-4297
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Date: April 23, 2012
Speaker: Brian Fisher, Curator, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA
Title: HOw many ants can an idland hold? Exploring and diversity in the Southwest Indian Ocean
Host: Heraty 2-6351
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Date: April 30, 2012
Speaker: Theresa Markow, Section of Cell and Developmental Biology, UC San Diego
Title: TBD
Host: Dahanukar 2-5742
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Date: May 7, 2012
Speaker: Tom Turner, Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology, UC Santa Barbara
Title: Mapping quantitative traits in Drosophila: Combining artifical selection and genome-wine association to find the genes affecting behavior.
Host: White 2-2626
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Date: May 14,2012
Speaker: Howard Topoff, SW Reaearch Station, AMNH, Portal, AZ
Title: Invasion of the booth snatchers; the evolution of slavery in the ant Genus Polyergus.
Date: May 21, 2012
Speaker: Joseph Morse
Title: xotic Armored Scales Entering California on Mexican Avocados - Politics Trumps Science
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Date: May 28, 2012
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