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Departmental Seminars

Spring 2001

All Entomology Department seminars meet at 3:00 pm in Rm A7 Agricultural Science Center North, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY unless otherwise noted.

Refreshments are served



DatePresenterTitle
Jan 12 Gene Kritsky
College of Mt. St. Joseph
Cincinnati, Ohio
Periodical cicadas: The plague and the puzzle
Jan 19 Mike Potter
University of Kentucky
Department of Entomology
Home wreckers; the insidious ways of termites

PLEASE NOTE: Seminar begins at 4:00 pm on this date.

Jan 26Nathalie Volkoff, Visiting Scientist
INRA-CNRS
Saint-Christol-les-Ales, France
Expressed Hyposoter Didymator Ichnovirus (HdIV) genes identified using infected lepidopteran cell lines

PLEASE NOTE: Seminar begins at 4:00 pm on this date.

Feb 2 Scott Quinton
University of Kentucky
Department of Entomology Proposal talk
Economic injury levels and economic thresholds for insect management in value-enhanced corn

PLEASE NOTE: Seminar begins at 4:00 pm on this date.

Jennifer Williams
University of Kentucky
Department of Entomology Proposal talk
How prey detect and avoid predators: a study with an agricultural pest

PLEASE NOTE: Seminar begins at 4:00 pm on this date.

Feb 9 David Denlinger
Ohio State University
Escape in time: the biology of insect overwintering

PLEASE NOTE: Seminar begins at 4:00 pm on this date.

Feb 16 Charlene Rucker
University of Kentucky
Department of Entomology
Proposal talk
Factors affecting blend discrimination and mating success in the cabbage looper moth, Trichoplusia ni

PLEASE NOTE: Seminar begins at 4:00 pm on this date.

Jamee Hubbard
University of Kentucky
Department of Entomology
Proposal talk
Creating novel Wolbachia infection types via transinfection

PLEASE NOTE: Seminar begins at 4:00 pm on this date.

Feb 23 Janet Lensing
University of Kentucky Department of Entomology
Proposal talk
Effects of global climate change on trophic interactions in the arthropod-dominated food web of forest floor leaf litter

PLEASE NOTE: Seminar begins at 4:00 pm on this date.

Leslie Foss
University of Kentucky
Department of Entomology
Proposal talk
Oak foliar chemistry and galling impact herbivore performance

PLEASE NOTE: Seminar begins at 4:00 pm on this date.

Mar 2 Cora Allard
University of Kentucky Department of Entomology Proposal talk
Distribution of Phalangium opilio in Kentucky soybean and effect of diet on this predator's reproduction

PLEASE NOTE: Seminar begins at 4:00 pm on this date.

Amanda Staley
University of Kentucky
Department of Entomology
Proposal talk
Effects of plant surfaces and conspecific individuals on Coleomegilla maculata oviposition, egg cannibalism, and larval movement

PLEASE NOTE: Seminar begins at 4:00 pm on this date.

Mar 9 Bob Denno
University of Maryland
Natural enemies versus host plant control of phytophagous insect populations: complex trophic interactions and spatial variation

PLEASE NOTE: Seminar begins at 4:00 pm on this date.

Mar 16 SPRING BREAK
Mar 23 Tim Mousseau
University of South Carolina
Adaptive maternal effects: Moms do much more than just make babies!

PLEASE NOTE: Seminar begins at 4:00 pm on this date.

Mar 30 Chanda Bartholomew
University of Kentucky
Department of Entomology
Milkweeds and monarchs: phenology, host-plant choice, and Bt corn
Carlos Sarmiento
University of Kentucky
Department of Entomology Proposal talk
Taxonomic revision of the new world species of Coccygidium (Braconidae: Agathidinae) with a phylogenetic analysis of color patterns
Apr 6 Tom Pucci
University of Kentucky
Department of Entomology
Master's Exit Seminar
A Revision of the Genus Agathirsia (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) and the Evolution of its Nectar Feeding
Apr 13 Chris Boake
University of Tennessee
Flying Apart: sexual selection and speciation in Hawaiian Drosophila
Apr 20 Mary Ellen Czesak
University of Kentucky
Department of Entomology Doctoral Exit Seminar
The evolution and ecology of insect life histories: Egg size and number in a desert seed beetle
Apr 27 Denise McNabb University of Kentucky Department of Entomology
Master's Exit Seminar
Using stable isotopes to infer trophic connections of generalist predators in a detritus-enriched agroecosystem


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Original document: 7 July 1995
Last updated: 5 April 2001