Division’s Winter Quarter Seminars Introduced – Entomology & Nematology Information

Seminar coordinator Shahid Siddique (Photograph by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Matters for the winter quarter seminars hosted by the UC Davis Division of Entomology and Nematology vary from the alfalfa weevil to the yellow fever mosquito. The seminar sequence will happen on Wednesdays at 4:10 p.m. in 122 Briggs Corridor starting Jan. 5 and persevering with via March 9.

Each in-person and digital seminars might be broadcast by way of Zoom at https://ucdavis.zoom.us/j/99515291076,  introduced seminar coordinator and nematologist Shahid Siddique, assistant professor.

The schedule:

Jan. 5, 2022
Randa Jabbour, affiliate professor, agroecology, College of Wyoming
Digital seminar
Title: “Interdisciplinary Collaborations in Pest Administration Analysis–My Alfalfa Weevil Tales” 
Host: Ian Grettenberger, assistant professor, UC Davis Division of Entomology and Nematology

Jan. 12, 2022
Sylvia Fischer, Mosquito Research Group, Division of Ecology, Genetics and Evolution, Universidad de Buenos Aires
Digital seminar
Title: “Latest Growth of Aedes aegypti Distribution: Are the Populations Adapting to Colder Local weather Areas?”
Host: Erin “Taylor Kelly, doctoral pupil within the Geoffrey Attardo lab, UC Davis Division of Entomology and Nematology

Jan. 19, 2022
Megan Meuti, assistant professor, Division of Entomology, The Ohio State College
Digital seminar
Title: “How Do Mosquitoes Accurately Interpret Environmental Indicators into Complicated Seasonal Responses?”
Host: Geoffrey Attardo, assistant professor, UC Davis Division of Entomology and Nematology

Tobin Hammer of the College of Texas, Austin, will converse Jan. 26 on “Range and Dynamism in Social Bee Microbiomes.”

Jan. 26, 2022
Tobin Hammer, postdoctoral researcher, College of Texas, Austin (he’ll begin as an assistant professor in UC Irvine’s Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Division in January 2022)
In-person seminar
Title: “Range and Dynamism in Social Bee Microbiomes”
Host: Rachel Vannette, affiliate professor, UC Davis Division of Entomology and Nematology

Feb. 2, 2022 
Simon Niels Groen, assistant professor, Division of Nematology, UC Riverside 
In-person seminar
Title: “Plant Toxins and the Evolution of Host-Parasite Interactions” 
Host: Shahid Siddique, assistant professor, UC Davis Division of Entomology and Nematology

Feb. 9, 2022
Vince D’Amico, analysis entomologist, Communities and Landscapes of the City Northwest, U.S. Division of Agriculture 
In-person seminar
Title: “Monitoring and Ecological Analysis within the Forests of the BosWash Megalopolis”  
Host: Geoffrey Attardo, assistant professor, UC Davis Division of Entomology and Nematology

Feb. 16, 2022
Michelle Heck, adjunct affiliate professor and analysis molecular biologist, Boyce Thompson Institute, Ithaca, N.Y.
Digital seminar
Title: Subject to be introduced (Her program makes use of a mix of molecular, genetic, and proteomics approaches to know how bugs transmit plant pathogens and the way pathogens manipulate host vegetation to make sure replication and transmission. A second space of analysis is the event of recent pest administration instruments to reinforce cultural management and to offer new administration methods for insect vector-borne illnesses in vegetation)
Host: Tiffany Lowe-Energy, assistant professor, UC Davis Division of Plant Pathology

Feb. 23, 2022
Adam Steinbrenner, assistant professor, Division of Biology, College of Washington
In-person seminar
Title: “Plant Immune Recognition of Insect Herbivores” 
Host: Shahid Siddique, assistant professor, UC Davis Division of Entomology and Nematology

March 2, 2022
Erica Henry, postdoctoral scholar, conservation biology, North Carolina State College
In-person seminar
Title: “Insect Conservation in an Unsure Future”
Host: Emily Meineke, assistant professor, UC Davis Division of Entomology and Nematology

March 9, 2022
Melissa Mitchum, professor, plant nematology, College of Georgia
Digital seminar 
Title: “The Methods Phytonematodes Use to Modulate Plant Improvement”
Host: Shahid Siddique, assistant professor, UC Davis Division of Entomology and Nematology

For any Zoom technical points, Siddique could also be reached at ssiddique@ucdavis.edu.