| University of Kentucky Entomology |
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| Date | Presenter | Title |
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| Jan 11 | Dr. Bill Carruthers USDA Forest Service Asheville, North Carolina | Forest Health Protection: Who We Are, What We Do, and Where We Work |
| Jan 18 | Torrence Gill University of Kentucky Department of Entomology Proposal talk | Characterization of cys-motif genes of Campoletis sonorensis polydnavirus by in vitro expression and expression in transgenic tobacco. |
| Jan 25 | Jennifer Williams University of Kentucky Department of Entomology MS Exit seminar | How prey detect and avoid predators: A study with an agricultural pest |
| Feb 1 | Robin Cooper University of Kentucky Department of Biological Sciences |
Development at the Drosophila neuromuscular junction (NMJ) and recent work in culturing the NMJ |
| Feb 8 | Michael Madryga USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service Louisville, Kentucky | Should you work for the federal government? |
| Feb 15 | George Heimpel University of Minnesota Department of Entomology | Ecology of sugar feeding in parasitoids |
| Feb 22 | Sara Sanders University of Kentucky Department of Entomology Proposal talk | Regeneration of southern pine beetle killed stands: An evaluation of regeneration success and associated arthropods |
| Jeremy Kroemer University of Kentucky Department of Entomology Proposal talk | Isolation, Expression, and Functional Characterization of NF-kb Inhibitor Homologs (Ikbs) Identified in the Campoletis sonorensis Ichnovirus (CsIV) Genome | |
| Mar 1 | Dr. Randy Hunt Indiana University Southeast New Albany, Indiana | Vibrational Communication in Leafhoppers and Treehoppers |
| Mar 8 | Brian Stevenson University of Kentucky Department of Microbiology | The Lyme Disease Bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi: Why the Bizarre Genome? |
| Mar 15 | SPRING BREAK | |
| Mar 22 | Angela Amarillo-Suarez University of Kentucky Department of Entomology Proposal talk | Geographic Variation in Host Plant Use and Its Consequences for Life History Evolution in Stator limbatus (Coleoptera: Bruchidae) |
| Kevin Pitz University of Kentucky Department of Entomology Proposal talk | Phylogeny of the Cenocoeliinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) and the evolution of oviposition mechanisms | |
| Mar 29 | Dr. Nailah Orr Dow Agro Sciences Physiological and Molecular Toxicology | Insecticide Discovery: The Current Industry Paradigm |
| Apr 5 | Ted Cottrell USDA-ARS, Southeastern Fruit and Tree Nut Research Laboratory, Byron, GA | Seasonal occurrence of stink bugs in, and around, Georgia pecan orchards |
| Apr 12 | Dr. Dan Potter University of Kentucky Department of Entomology | Feeding Ecology of the Japanese Beetle, Ecological and Practical Implications |
| Apr 19 | Dr. Danise Coar Philip Morris, Inc | Insect Pest Management in the Real World |
| Apr 26 | No Seminar | |
