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Spring 2008 Seminar Schedule

 

Jan 18 - Proposal Symposium

3:00 - Sarah Colvin (proposal seminar; Yeargan lab) – Title TBA

3:30 - Eunho Suh (proposal seminar; Dobson lab) – Title TBA

4:00 - Julie Peterson (proposal seminar; Harwood lab) – Risk assessment of genetically modified crops: tracking the flow of transgenic toxins within complex invertebrate food webs

4:30 - Josh Clark (proposal seminar; Rieske-Kinney lab) – On the front lines of an invasion: Using remote sensing and predictive modeling to battle the Hemlock Woolly Adelgid

 

Jan 25 - Proposal Symposium

3:00 - Paul Ayayee (proposal seminar; Rieske-Kinney lab) – Hemlock characteristics influence susceptibility to the invasive hemlock woolly adelgid

3:30 - Anna Thomas (proposal seminar; Harwood lab) – Faunistic composition and ecology of slugs in urban and residential areas of Kentucky

4:00 - Mike Eskelson (proposal seminar; Harwood lab) – Food webs of slugs (Gastropoda: Pulmonata) and generalist predators in strawberry agroecosystems

4:30 - Heather Spaulding (proposal seminar; Rieske-Kinney lab) – Forests of the future: Simulating the effects of exotic invasive species on forest structure and composition

 

Feb 1

Todd Blackledge (Univ Akron) – Perspectives on the ecology and evolution of spider webs (host: Harwood lab)

 

Feb 8

Kris Giles (Oklahoma State Univ) – Winter biology of the aphid parasitoid Lysiphlebus testaceipes Cresson in Oklahoma (host: Obrycki lab)

 

Feb 15 - Proposal Symposium

3:00 - Rachael Mallis (proposal seminar; Rieske-Kinney lab) – Evaluating potential population regulators of the hemlock woolly adelgid

3:30 - Josh Adkins (proposal seminar; Rieske-Kinney lab) – Aquatic consequences of a terrestrial invader: hemlock woolly adelgid affects headwater streams

4:00 - Sarah Mack (proposal seminar; Potter Lab) – Title TBA

4:30 – Zhiyuan Sun (proposal seminar; Palli lab) – Title TBA

 

Feb 22

Tim Craig (Univ Minnesota, Duluth) – Local adaptation and the coevolution of the Eurosta solidaginis community

 

Feb 29

Rich Merritt (Michigan State Univ) – Title TBA (host: Sharkey lab)

 

Mar 7

Stephanie Bloem (Center for Biological Control, USDA, Florida A&M Univ) – Title TBA (host: Potter lab)

 

Mar 21 - Proposal Symposium

3:00 - Login Minter (proposal seminar; Brown lab) – Title TBA

3:30 - Craig Keathley (proposal seminar; Potter lab) – Modified forage grasses, livestock toxicosis, and insect outbreaks: trade-offs and compromises

4:00 - Andrea Bixby (proposal seminar; Potter lab) – Tritrophic interactions and effectiveness of AgipMNVP for the control of black cutworm in turfgrass

4:30 - Juliane Deacutis (proposal seminar: Webb lab) – Relationships between polydnavirus segments capable of integrating into insect genomes and viral genome organization, function and evolution

 

Mar 28

Kristine Braman (Distinguished Entomology Alumni Lecture Series, Univ Georgia) – Title TBA

 

Apr 4

Andy Joseph (MS exit seminar; Bessin lab) – Nutritional supplements and foraging behavior of Bombus impatiens with greenhouse tomatoes

 

Apr 11

Peter Price (Northern Arizona Univ) – Macroevolutionary theory on macroecological patterns: from the ground plan of insect herbivores to their ecology (Student Choice Speaker)

 

Apr 18

Logan Minter (MS proposal seminar; Brown lab) – Title TBA

 

Apr 25

Barb Sharanowski (PhD exit seminar; Sharkey lab) – Title TBA