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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.  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.   

 

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)

 

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

 

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

University of Kentucky Entomology