University of Kentucky College of Agriculture

Departmental Seminar & EcoLunches

Unless otherwise noted, the weekly Department of Entomology Seminar meets on most fridays during Spring and Fall semesters.  Seminars are free and refreshments are served.  Seminars typically last 1 hour.

 

Details:

Friday, 3:00 pm

Room N-12 Agricultural Science Center North

University of Kentucky

Lexington, KY 40514

 

EcoLunch seminars are also listed below, when applicable.  EcoLunch seminars are presented by CEEB (the Center for Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, which includes the UK Department of Entomology, Biology, and other on-campus departments that deal with the life-sciences) and occur on most fridays during the Spring and Fall semesters from 12pm-1pm at the Kuehne room in the Small Animal Building or in room B202A in the Biological Sciences Research Building (BBSRB) on the University of Kentucky Campus.

  

Spring 2012

 

Jan 13

Entomology Seminar (3pm, N-12 Ag. Sci. North): Amy Toth (Iowa State U) – Integrative genomic and physiological analyses of social behavior in bees and wasps (host: Zhou lab)

 

Jan 20

Entomology Seminar (3pm, N-12 Ag. Sci. North): John Obrycki – The state of the department, followed by department social

 

Jan 27

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

  • Student proposal seminars:
  • Jennifer Gordon (Haynes lab) – Insecticide resistance in the bed bug
  • Thomas Whitney (Harwood lab) – Title TBA
  • Rich Biemiller (Barton lab) – Title TBA

 

Feb 3

Entomology Seminar (3pm, N-12 Ag. Sci. North): Dick McDonald (Symbiont – Biological Pest Management Company) - These beetles save needles: Establishment and dispersal of Laricobius nigrinus in NW NC, and the role of predators in regulating the hemlock woolly adelgid in the US (host: Office of the State Entomologist)

 

Feb 10

Entomology Seminar (3pm, N-12 Ag. Sci. North): Julie Peterson (PhD exit seminar; Harwood lab)

 

Feb 17

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

  • Student proposal seminars:
  • Christopher Strohm (Rieske-Kinney lab) – Title TBA
  • Hannah McKenrick (Harwood lab) – Title TBA

 

Feb 24

Entomology Seminar (3pm, N-12 Ag. Sci. North): Tammy Horn (Environmental Research Institute, EKU) – Challenges of creating honey corridors in Appalachia (host: Fox lab)

 

Mar 2

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

  • Student proposal seminars:
  • Emily Dobbs (D. Potter lab) – Title TBA
  • Sydney Crawley (Dobson lab) – Title TBA

 

Mar 9

Entomology Seminar (3pm, N-12 Ag. Sci. North): Jake Tu (Virginia Tech) – Title TBA (host: Palli lab)

 

Mar 23

Entomology Seminar (3pm, N-12 Ag. Sci. North): Bryony Bonning (Iowa State U) – Title TBA (host: Palli lab)

 

Mar 30

Entomology Seminar (3pm, N-12 Ag. Sci. North): Subaratnam Muthukrishnan (Kansas State U) – Title TBA (host: Palli lab)

 

Apr 6

Entomology Seminar (3pm, N-12 Ag. Sci. North): Gina Wimp (Georgetown U) – Impacts of habitat edges and resource subsidies on a salt marsh food web (host: White lab)

 

Apr 13

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

  • Student exit seminars:
  • Lori Nelson (MS exit seminar, Rieske-Kinney lab) – Title TBA
  • Christina Brady (MS exit seminar; White lab) – "Global variation in endosymbiont communities of the Cowpea aphid Aphis craccivora"

 

Apr 20

Entomology Seminar (3pm, N-12 Ag. Sci. North): Susan Moser – Collaborations with Pioneer Hi-Bred: A case study examining larval movement of the European corn borer (host: Obrycki lab)

 

Apr 26

Entomology Seminar (3pm, N-12 Ag. Sci. North): Elizabeth Andrews (PhD exit seminar; Dobson lab) – Title TBA

 

For more details on upcoming seminars, visit the UK Department of Entomology Calendar.  

 

For More Information, contact:

Dr. John J. Obrycki, Chair
859.257.7450 | john.obrycki@uky.edu
Department of Entomology
S-225 Agricultural Science Center North
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY USA 40546-0091