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Fall 2009

 

Aug 28

EcoLunch (12pm, Small Animal Building): Utah Newman (UK Depatment of Biology graduate student, Westneat Lab) – The OTS experience

 

Entomology Seminar (3pm, N-12 Ag. Sci. North): John Obrycki (UK Department of Entomology, Chair) – Welcome and Introductions

 

Sept 4

EcoLunch (12pm, BBSRB): Dr. Lee Dugatkin (Department of Biology, University of Louisville) – Mr. Jefferson and the giant moose: When history and natural selection collide

 

Entomology Seminar (3pm, N-12 Ag. Sci. North): Mary Gardiner (Ohio State Univ.) – The influence of landscape on native and exotic coccinellid populations in the north-central U.S. (host: James Harwood)

 

Sept 11

EcoLunch (12pm, BBSRB): Dr. Raelynn Deaton (Department of Biological Sciences, Sam Houston State University) – Structure of the male gonopodium in relation to sexual selection and reproductive success in a coercive livebearing fish

 

Entomology Seminar (3pm, N-12 Ag. Sci. North): Tyasning Nusawardani (UK Department of Entomology, PhD exit seminar) – The regulation of host innate immune responses by Campoletis sonorensis parasitization

 

Sept 18

EcoLunch (12pm, BBSRB): Robert Page (UK Depatment of Biology graduate student, Voss Lab) – Transcriptional and morphological changes during thyroxine-induced metamorphosis of the Mexican axolotl and axolotl-tiger salamander hybrids

 

Entomology Seminar (3pm, N-12 Ag. Sci. North): Graduate student proposal symposium:

• Jason Wulff (White lab)
• Elizabeth Andrews (Dobson lab)
• Kelton Welch (Harwood lab) – The dietary significance of web placement for linyphiid spiders

 

Sept 25

EcoLunch (12pm, Small Animal Building): Dr. Yunxin Huang (UK Dept of Biology Post-doc, Garcia-Ramos Lab) – Theoretical assessment of gene-drive into insect populations

Entomology Seminar (3pm, N-12 Ag. Sci. North): Jeff Stuart (Purdue Univ.) – Avirulence gene discovery in the genome of the Hessian fly (host: Joe Zhou)

 

Oct 2

EcoLunch (12pm, BBSRB): Dr. Goggy Davidowitz (Deptartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona) – Floral rewards for bats subsidize pollination, herbivory and biodiversity in a desert hawkmoth community

 

Entomology Seminar (3pm, N-12 Ag. Sci. North): Dr. Goggy Davidowitz (Deptartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona) – Physiological antagonism and synergism in the evolution of insect life histories (host: Chuck Fox)

 

Oct 9

EcoLunch (12pm, BBSRB): Melanie O’Day (UK Depatment of Biology graduate student, Crowley Lab) – Tradeoffs and fitness costs in a parasitic nematode

 

Entomology Seminar (3pm, N-12 Ag. Sci. North): Alvaro Romero (PhD exit seminar; Haynes lab) – Ecology and management of an undercover pest, the bed bug Cimex lecturarius

 

Oct 16

EcoLunch (12pm, BBSRB): Dr. Robert Dudley (Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley) – The evolution of alcoholism (Joint sponsorship with UK Dept. of Anthropology)

 

Entomology Seminar (3pm, N-12 Ag. Sci. North): Jon Lundgren (USDA-ARS, Brooking, South Dakota) – Ecological complexity in pest management: managing the corn rootworm using generalist predator communities (host: John Obrycki)

 

Oct 23

EcoLunch (12pm, Small Animal Building): Patricia Hartman (UK Depatment of Biology graduate student, Westneat Lab) – Does Golden-winged warbler + blue-winged warbler = green-winged warbler?

 

Entomology Seminar (3pm, N-12 Ag. Sci. North): Scott Salom (Entomology, Virginia Tech) – Biological control research and application for the hemlock woolly adelgid (host: Lynne Rieske-Kinney)

 

Oct 30

EcoLunch (12pm, BBSRB): Justin Kratovil (UK Depatment of Biology graduate student, Weisrock Lab)

 

Entomology Seminar (3pm, N-12 Ag. Sci. North):

• Anna Thomas (MS exit seminar; Harwood lab) – Impact of dietary diversification on invasive slugs and biological control
• Philip Crain (proposal seminar; Dobson lab)

 

Nov 6

EcoLunch (12pm, BBSRB): Dr. Ethan Clotfelter (Amherst College, Depts. of Biology, Environmental Sciences & Neuroscience) – Carotenoid tradeoffs in fishes

 

Entomology Seminar (3pm, N-12 Ag. Sci. North): Phil Lounibos (Univ. Florida) – Student Choice Speaker

 

Nov 13

EcoLunch (12pm, Small Animal Building): Kay Shenoy (UK Depatment of Biology graduate student, Crowley Lab) – Endocrine disruption and mating in guppies

Entomology Seminar (3pm, N-12 Ag. Sci. North): Michael Seagraves (USDA-ARS, Brookings, SD) – Oviposition decisions by Orius insidiosus: implications of omnivory (host: ken Yeargan)

 

Nov 20

EcoLunch (12pm, Small Animal Building): Madhu Srinivasan (UK Depatment of Biology graduate student, Gleeson Lab)

 

Entomology Seminar (3pm, N-12 Ag. Sci. North):

• 3:00 – Logan Minter (MS exit seminar; Brown lab)
• 3:45 – Sarah Vanek (MS exit seminar; Potter lab)

 

Dec 4

EcoLunch (12pm, Small Animal Building): Kerri Wrinn (Miami University, Department of Zoology, Rypstra Lab)

 

Entomology Seminar (3pm, N-12 Ag. Sci. North): Andy Boring (PhD exit seminar; Sharkey lab)

 

Dec 11

EcoLunch (12pm, Small Animal Building): Mary Hart (UK Depatment of Biology graduate student, Sargent Lab) – Environmental effects on mating strategy in a simultaneously hermaphroditic fish

 

Entomology Seminar (3pm, N-12 Ag. Sci. North): Florian Wolschin (Arizona State Univ.) – Molecular signatures of alternative lives: the metabolic plasticity of honey bees (Host: Joe Zhou)