| Date/ Sponsor |
Presenter |
Seminar Topic/Area of Interest |
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January 16
Ian Kaplan
| Danny Haelewaters
Purdue Botany & Plant Pathology
| Arthropod-associated Laboulbeniales fungi, the elephant in the room
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January 23
Aaron Smith
| Marcin Kamiński
Purdue Entomology
| Polish comes from the cities; wisdom from the desert: a tale of darkling beetles
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January 30
Michael Scharf
| Herbert Siqueira Purdue Entomology
| Resistance to insecticides in the highly invasive tomato pinworm Tuta absoluta (Meyrick, 1917): current status and management
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February 6 & 7
Osmun Faculty Interview*
| Dini Miller
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Dept of Entomology
| THURS: A Biological Science (how insects evolved to survive in the urban environment) Or a Social Science (how human behavior has allowed insects to thrive in the urban environment)
FRI: How Improving the Pest Management Industry can Improve Peoples’ Lives
|
February 13 & 14
Osmun Faculty Interview*
| Warren Booth
University of Tulsa, Dept of Biology
| THURS: Using bed bugs to understand urban pest evolution in the urban environment
FRI: How can The Center for Urban and Industrial Pest Management meet today’s evolving needs?
|
February 20
Ameya Gondhalekar
| Joe Zhou
University of Kentucky
| From “Scared to Death” to “Peace of Mind” - Social Buffering in Termites
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February 27
Stephen Cameron
| Julie Allen
University of Nevada at Reno
| Untangling the web of vertebrate – louse – symbiont evolution a bioinformatics approach
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February 27 & 28
Osmun Faculty Interview*
| Barry Pittendrigh
Michigan State University, Dept of Entomology
| THURS: From Genomics to Outreach: Systems Approaches to Entomological Research and Impact
FRI: The Center for Urban and Industrial Pest Management: A Systems Approach as a Vision Towards the Future of Societal Engagement
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March 5 John Couture
| Charlie Mason Penn State
| When very hungry caterpillars get very bad tummy aches: understanding the roles and impacts of gut microbiomes in mediating plant defenses
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March 12 John Couture
| Harmony Dalgleish
Cornell University
| TBA
|
March 19
| * * * SPRING BREAK - NO SEMINAR * * *
| N/A
|
March 26 Ashley Leach |
Heather Leach
Penn State
|
Invasion of the Lanternflies: response and management for the new pest, spotted
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April 2
Krystal Hans
|
Sherah VanLaerhoven
University of Windsor
|
TBA
|
April 9
Mat Dittmann
|
Manuela Ramalho
Cornell University
|
Exploring connections between microbial community and host phylogenetic history: a powerful tool to better understand the evolutionary significance of these associations in nature
|
April 16
Cliff Sadof
|
Dave Kellam
University of New Hampshire
|
How research and programming can fuel a modern Extension marketing machine |
April 23
Paola Olaya Arenas
| Ivette Perfecto
University of Michigan
| Complex ecological interactions in the coffee agroecosystem
|
April 30
N/A
| Undergraduate Capstone Presentations
| TBA closer to end of semester
|
May 7
Elizabeth Long
| Zsofia Szendrei
Michigan State
| Supporting pollinators in vine crops: from honey bees to wild bees |