FALL 2009 ENTOMOLOGY SEMINAR SERIES
Seminars are at 4pm Mondays in Rm 244 Natural Science, unless otherwise noted. Snacks are provided at 3:45pm. Contact the host (in parentheses) for the speaker's schedule and to make an appointment.
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September 14
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“Biological buffering: mechanisms for soil microbial modulation of
above-ground herbivory”
Larry Phelan, Ohio State University (Miller)
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September 21
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“Regulation of reproduction and metabolism in the yellow fever mosquito”
Mark Brown, University of Georgia (Thiem)
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September 28
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“Reproductive biology of the tobacco budworm, Heliothis virescens”
Carlos Blanco, USDA- Stoneville, MS (Mota-Sanchez)
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October 5
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“Seeing the tips for the trees: the evolutionary signature of chemically-mediated trophic interactions”
Jim Fordyce, Univ of Tennessee (Hamm)
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October 12
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“The scent of plants in insect-plant Interactions and pest management”
Cesar Rodriguez-Saona, Rutgers University (Isaacs)
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October 19
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“Genetically engineered insect resistant plants - can they really be part of IPM?”
Tony Shelton, Cornell University (Willot)
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October 26
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“Vegetational diversity and natural enemies”.
David Andow, Univ of Minnesota (Woltz)
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November 2
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“Stag beetle systematics: fighting for meaningful classification”
Matt Paulsen, Univ of Nebraska (Smith)
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November 9
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“Influences of the microbiome on pathogen transmission: Lessons learned from tsetse flies.”
Serap Aksoy, Yale University (Xi)
NOTE: To be held in room 1425 BPS
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November 16
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“Winter moth invasion of the Northeast United States”
Joe Elkinton, Univ of Massachusetts (Poland)
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November 23
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“Beetles gone wild: the secret sex lives of Japanese beetles”
Paul Switzer, E. Illinois University (VanTimmeren)
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November 30
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For more information, contact Carolyn Lewis at lewisca8@msu.edu
If you would like to print out our Fall semester schedule you can do so here.