Seminars
Spring 2013
Unless otherwise noted, all seminars are held in 490 Hodson Hall
3:00 p.m. Refreshments
3:15 p.m. Seminar
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Tuesday, January 29th |
Julie Peterson |
"Utilization of plant-provided dietary resources by arthropod natural enemies in agroecosystems." |
Tuesday, February 5th |
Emilie Snell-Rood |
"Costs and limits in the evolution of phenotypic plasticity: lessons from butterflies and beetles." |
Tuesday, February 12th |
Karl Lorenz, Director Office of Diversity & Inclusion |
"Experiences of Diverse Graduate Students at the U of MN" |
Tuesday, February 19th |
Dr. Tom Schmidt, Forest Service, Assist. Dir. |
“Meeting the Challenges in Natural Resources Conservation Through Partnerships” |
Tuesday, February 26th |
Corey McQueen |
"The Terrors of Terroir: How wine flavonoids and insects interact." |
Tuesday, March 5th |
Lesley Tylzak |
"Woodlands in Peril: Evaluating Natural Resource Volunteerism as a Weapon Against Invasive Pests" |
Tuesday, March 12th |
Petra Kranzfelder |
"Off to sea: ecology, physiology, and evolution of marine insects." |
Tuesday, March 26th |
Judy Wu |
"What's an orchid bee to do without its orchid: the unique naturalization of Euglossa viridissima in the US" |
Tuesday, April 2nd |
Andrea Hefty |
"Walnut twig beetle: A potential threat to the eastern United States?"-Thesis Proposal Seminar- |
Thursday, April 4th |
Anthony Hanson
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"Cold tolerance of Chinese emerald ash borer parasitoids and implications for biological control in the Upper Midwest."-Defense Seminar- |
Thursday, April 4th |
Dr. Marlene Zuk, Professor, EEB |
"Rapid evolution in silence: adaptive signal loss in the Pacific field cricket." |
Tuesday, April 9th |
Jessica Miller |
"Chironomid assemblages in Minnehaha Creek and how they vary with land use." |
Tuesday, April 16th |
Jack Gray |
"Thinking on the fly: Neuroethology of avoidance behaviour." |
Tuesday, April 23rd |
Geoff Lynn |
"Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever: Discovery and the East Side Hypothesis" |
Monday, April 29th |
Rafael Manzanero |
"Saving a Tropical Forest Through Beekeeping" |
Tuesday, April 30th |
Cindy Harley310 Alderman Hall |
"Swim vs.Crawl-- how leeches chose between two competing locomotor programs." |
Tuesday, May 7th |
Grace Li |
"Wolbachia coupling protein VirD4—the liaison between the substrate and the type IV secretion system(T4SS)"-Thesis Proposal Seminar- |
Wednesday, May 15th |
Fraser McKee |
"The Rocky Mountain Locust: Boom to Bust" |
Tuesday, May 28th |
Jessica Freitag
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"The effect of relative humidity on acaricide efficacy against and dispersal characteristics of the mold mite Tyrophagus putrescentiae"- Thesis Defense Seminar- |
Thursday, June 13th |
Megan Carter |
"Functional response and the effects of insecticidal seed treatment on the soybean aphid parasitoid, Binodoxyscommunis."
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Tuesday, June 25th |
Jamison Scholer |
"Title TBD" |
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Fall 2013
Unless otherwise noted, all seminars are held in 490 Hodson Hall
3:00 p.m. Refreshments
3:15 p.m. Seminar
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Tuesday, Sept. 10 |
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Tuesday, Sept. 17 |
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Tuesday, Sept. 24 |
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Tuesday, Oct. 8 |
Dr. Elizabeth Borer, Assoc. Professor, EEB |
"Diversity-productivity-stability triads of plants and consumers." |
Tuesday, Oct. 15 |
Dr. James Harwood, Assoc. Professor, Univ. of Kentucky |
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Tuesday, Oct. 22 |
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Tuesday, Oct. 29 |
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Tuesday, Nov. 5 |
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Tuesday, Nov. 12 |
No Seminar |
ESA Meetings (TX) |
Tuesday, Nov. 19 |
Dr. Scott Hutchins, Global Product Leader, Dow Agrosciences |
"Mystery and Mythology Revealed: Entomology and Entomologists in the Private Sector" |
Tuesday, Nov. 26 |
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