Department Seminars - SPRING 2023
Seminars are scheduled on Thursdays with a Q&A session at the end of each presentation. Most seminars will be in person at Whistler Hall room 116 (WSLR 116). Anyone outside the department that would like to be notified of upcoming seminars can subscribe to the entm.seminars listserv. Any virtual seminars are recorded and will be made available in a YouTube playlist shortly after the date of each seminar.
Date - Time - Location |
Presenter | Seminar Topic/Area of Interest |
Jan 12 - 3:45 P.M. Dean's Auditorium (PFEN 241) |
Eyal Maori - University of Cambridge |
Of honey bees and RNA cooperation between organisms |
Jan 19 - 3:45 P.M. Zoom |
Coby Schal - North Carolina State University | Pest adaptations drive innovative solutions |
Jan 26 - 3:45 P.M. Zoom |
Shahid Siddique - University of California, Davis | Biology of Nematode Infection of Plants |
Feb 2 - 3:45 P.M. WSLR 116 |
Vikki Weake - Purdue Biochemistry | Circadian regulators protect the aging eye against retinal degeneration and oxidative stress |
Feb 9 - 3:45 P.M. WSLR 116 |
NO SEMINAR | N/A |
Feb 16 - 3:45 P.M. WSLR 116 |
Christine J. Picard - IUPUI | Circular research: how I learned to love the fly |
Feb 23 - 3:45 P.M. WSLR 116 |
Aaron D. Smith - Purdue Entomology | Darkling beetles (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) as a model system in evolution and ecology |
Mar 2 - 3:45 P.M. WSLR 116 |
Lewis Bartlett - University of Georgia | Understanding virulence in honey bee health |
Mar 9 - 3:45 P.M. WSLR 116 |
Virginia Ferris Memorial Endowment Award - Speaker Hongmei Li-Byarlay | Celebrating Women in Entomology |
Mar 16 |
*NO SEMINAR* | Spring Break - no seminar |
Mar 23 - 3:45 P.M. WSLR 116 |
Monica Kersch-Becker - Penn State | Complex species interactions: from trophic cascades to ecological networks |
Mar 30 - 3:45 P.M. Zoom |
Miles Zhang - University of Edinburgh | From Citizen Science to Genome: Advances in the study of the gall wasp communities |
Apr 6 - 3:45 P.M. WSLR 116 |
Jody Green, Jonathan Larson, & Michael Skvarla - Arthro-Pod (podcast) | Life after Purdue: Communicating the Science of Arthropods through Podcasting |
Apr 13 - 3:45 P.M. WSLR 116 |
Anthony Cognato - Michigan State University | Bark and ambrosia beetles (Curculionidae: Scolytinae): Diversity, biological novelties and imminent pests |
Apr 20 - 3:45 P.M. WSLR 116 |
Mike Crossley - University of Delaware | And something borrowed: My semiparasitic life as an ecoinformatician |
May 4 - 3:45 P.M. WSLR 116 |
Monique Rivera - Cornell University | TBA |