DEPARTMENT OF ENTOMOLOGY
DEPARTMENT SEMINARS

Date and Time	Speaker	Title
Tue, Sep 15 3:00 PM	David Andow Professor Department of Entomology University of Minnesota	Non-target risk assessment of GM crops: the process and the data
Tue, Sep 22 3:00 PM	Jim Whitfield Professor Department of Entomology University of Illinois	Parasitoids and polydnaviruses: what a long, strange trip it’s been!
Tue, Sep 29 3:00 PM	Antoine Branca Post-Doctoral Associate Dept. of Plant Sciences Univ. of Minnesota	Role of Wolbachia in the intraspecific specialization of the parasitoid Cotesia sesamiae
Tue, Oct 6 3:00 PM	Forest Entomology Candidate	TBA
Tue, Oct 13 3:00 PM	Forest Entomology Candidate	TBA
Tue, Oct 20 3:00 PM	Forest Entomology Candidate	TBA
Tue, Oct 27 3:00 PM	Forest Entomology Candidate	TBA
Tue, Nov 3 3:00 PM	Adam Zeilinger Graduate Student Dept of Fisheries, Wildlife and Conservation Biology Univ. Minnesota	Causes of non-target pest outbreaks in transgenic Bt Cotton: Stink bugs in southeast US and midwest Brazil
Tue, Nov 10 3:00 PM	Thelma Heidel Graduate Student Department of Entomology Univ. of Minnesota	Compatibility of management methods used against the invasive soybean aphid (Thesis proposal)
Tue, Nov 17 3:00 PM	Robin Thomson Graduate Student Department of Entomology Univ. of Minnesota	A phylogenetic assessment of the microcaddisflies with a species-level review of selected genera of the subfamily Leucotrichiinae (Trichoptera: Hydroptilidae) (Thesis proposal)
Tue, Nov 24 3:00 PM	Michael Goblirsch Graduate Student Department of Entomology Univ. of Minnesota	The effects of Nosema ceranae infection on honey bee health and Colony Collapse Disorder (Thesis proposal)
Tue, Dec 1 3:00 PM	Amy Morey Graduate Student Department of Entomology Univ. of Minnesota	Fossils: Ghosts of Insects Past (non thesis seminar)
Tue, Dec 8 3:00 PM	Reed Johnson Department of Entomology University of Nebraska	Modern challenges to honey bee health: Pesticides, pathogens and drugs
Tue, Dec 15 3:00 PM		No Seminar - ESA

3:00 PM - Refreshments

3:15 PM - Seminar

Room 490 Hodson Hall unless otherwise specified