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Spring Semester 2003

Date	Speaker	Title
January 21	Matt Carroll Department of Entomology University of Minnesota	SAS essentials for scientists
January 28	Jeff Luedeman Acute Disease Investigation & Control Minnesota Dept of Health	West Nile Virus in Minnesota
February 4	Matt Carroll Department of Entomology University of Minnesota	Remote sensing and epidemiology.
February 11	Kamal Gandhi Department of Entomology University of Minnesota	Ecological invasion of exotic forest insects with case studies from Minnesota.
February 18	Loralee Kerr Entomology, Fisheries & Wildlife Library University of Minnesota	The living library
February 25	Jana Lee Department of Entomology University of Minnesota	Surviving the winter as a parasitoid.
March 4	Michelle DaCosta Department of Entomology University of Minnesota	Phylogeny of the tiger moth tribe Callimorphini (Arctiidae:Arctiinae)
March 11	Josh Mattila Department of Entomology University of Minnesota	Three's company: Tsetse flies, trypanosomes and endosymbiotic bacteria.
March 18		No seminar - spring break
March 25	Dean Hansen Dept. of Entomology alum	Underwater macrophotography of aquatic insects. CANCELLED
April 1 CANCELLED	May Barenbaum Dept. of Entomology University of Illinois	CANCELLED Co-sponsored by Frenatae
April 8	Jay Evans Honeybee Research Lab USDA-ARS	Developmental genes affecting honey bee health and queen production.
April 15 4:30 PM 335 Borlaug Hall	Gary Felton Prof. & Head, Dept. of Entomology Penn State University	Hamm Memorial Lecture: Mixed Messages in Caterpillar Saliva: Implication for Plant Defenses
Thursday, April 17 2:00 PM 490 Hodson Hall	Yang Hu Department of Entomology University of Minnesota	Mating behavior in moths - random and non-random mating.
April 22	Que Lan Department of Entomology University of Wisconsin	Sterol Carrier Protein-2: uptake of cholesterol from midgut
April 24 10:00 AM 490 Hodson Hall	Marion Carillo-Vilchez Department of Entomology University of Minnesota	Cold Hardiness of the Indian Meal Moth, Plodia interpunctella (Hubner) (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae), and its implication for control.
April 29	Abdullah Ibrahim Department of Entomology University of Minnesota	Honey bee mechanisms of resistance to diseases and the parasitic mite, Varroa destructor
May 6	Jeff Davis Department of Entomology University of Minnesota	Virus Transmission and Host Plant Resistance
May 83:00 PM 375 Borlaug Hall	Cynthia Hsu Department of Entomology University of Minnesota	Effects of the spatial distribution of European corn borer on dispersal and parasitism by Macrocentrus grandii

3:15 PM - Seminar

310 Alderman Hall unless otherwise specified