| Date |
Presenter |
Seminar Topic |
| January 12 |
Major Darryl A. Forest U.S. Army |
Entomology Careers in the Military: A Brief Overview |
| January 19 |
Jonathan Neal Purdue University |
BT corn, Insect Resistance Management and EPA Scientific Advisory Panels |
| January 26 |
No seminar |
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| February 2 |
Gregory Curler
University of Tennessee |
Biosystematics of Diptera, with emphasis on moth flies and sand flies (Psychodidae) |
| February 9 |
Ameya Gondhalekar
Purdue University |
Indoxacarb toxicology in the German cockroach: from susceptibility monitoring to resistance and metabolism |
| February 16 |
Annemarie Nagle
Purdue University |
Neighbors against bad bugs and EAB Outreach |
| February 23 |
Graduate Students
Purdue University |
Jeff Grabowski - Properties of tick-borne Langat virus during growth in Ixodes scapularis ISE6 cells and host proteomic change following infection
Jessica Kelly - Revitalizing augmentation biological control employing immunomarking techniques and behavior-modifying semiochemicals to track and improve efficiency
Carlos Quesada - Effects of selected pesticides on calico scale and its natural enemies |
March 1
|
Jennifer Tsuruda
Purdue University |
Honey bee health - breeding for behavioral resistance to Varroa mites |
| March 8 |
Sarah Swope
USDA ARS Exotic and Invasive Weeds Research Unit, Albany, CA |
The consequences of multispecies interactions: from individuals to populations.
|
| March 15 |
Spring Break -No Seminar |
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| March 22 |
Rachael Winfree
Rutgers University |
Native pollinators, ecosystem services, and global change |
| March 29 |
Graduate Students
Purdue University |
Carmen Blubaugh - The effects of food and habitat resources on invertebrate seed predator recruitment and weed population dynamics
Yanlin Tian - Optimization of ozone technology as an IPM strategy in cockroach management
Adam Witte - Impacts of calico scale treatments on honeylocust spider mite and other mite fauna populations |
April 5
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CANCELLED |
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| April 12 |
Vince Jones
Washington State University
Tree Fruit Research and Extension Center |
How a perfect storm of technology, legislation, and applied ecology is finally leading to IPM in western orchards |
| April 19 |
Undergraduate Students
Purdue University |
Capstone presentations |
| April 26 |
Daniel Gruner
University of Maryland |
Food web interactions in an archipelago of volcanically isolated forest fragments |
| May 3 |
Graduate Students Purdue University |
Mahsa Fardisi - Investigation of Dried Distiller Grains with Solubles (DDGS) susceptibility to red flour beetle (Tribolium castaneum) infestation
Ulianova Vidal Gomez - Associative learning of Podisus maculiventris (Hemiptera:Pentatomidae) to herbivore induced plant volatiles
Andres Filipe Sandoval Mojica - The Reticulitermes flavipes peritrophic matrix: Composition and viability as a target in termite pest management |
| May 7 |
Paul Marek University of Arizona |
Millipede systematics and the evolutionary ecology of warning coloration |