DEPARTMENT OF ENTOMOLOGY
DEPARTMENT SEMINARS

Date and Time	Speaker	Title
Tue, Jan 22 3:00 PM		No Seminar
Tue, Jan 29 3:00 PM	Jim Curtsinger Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior University of Minnesota	The Old Fly: The Evolution of Senescence in Drosophila melanogaster
Tue, Feb 5	No Seminar Today
Tue, Feb 12 3:00 PM	Peter Mason Agriculture and Agrifood, Canada Ottawa, Canada	Classical Biological Control of Arthropods: From Shotgun to Science
Tue, Feb 19 3:00 PM	Brian Schuetz Graduate Student Dept of Entomology University of Minnesota	Chironomids in the River Continuum: Longitudinal Zonation along the Saint Croix River (Thesis Proposal Seminar)
Tue, Feb 26 3:00 PM	Claudio Gratton Dept. of Entomology University of Wisconsin	Midge Madness! Quantifying linkages between lake and land
Tue, Mar 4 3:00 PM	Alejandro Costamagna Dept of Entomology University of Minnesota	Impacts of Established Natural Enemy Assemblages on an Invasive Pest, the Soybean Aphid
Tue, Mar 11 3:00 PM	Steffan Pauls Dept of Entomology University of Minnesota	Diversification in the caddisfly subfamily Drusinae: insights from molecular phylogenetics and phylogeography
Tue, Mar 18	No Seminar Today, Spring Break
Tue, Mar 25	No Seminar Today, NCB ESA Meeting
Tue, Apr 1 3:00 PM	Abby Walter Graduate Student Dept of Entomology University of Minnesota	TBA (non-thesis seminar)
Tue, Apr 8 3:00 PM	Patina Mendez Post-Doctoral Fellow Dept. of Entomology University of Minnesota	The Life History of the Caddisfly Neophylax rickeri (Trichoptera: Uenoidae) in Two Northern California Streams
Tue, Apr 22 3:00 PM	Jeremy Chacon Graduate Student Dept. of Entomology University of Minnesota	Insect-borne diseases and their control in refugee camps. (non-thesis seminar)
Tue, Apr 29 3:00 PM	Karl Kjer Dept. of Entomology Rutgers University and Alumnus, Ph.D., 1992	Homology in terms of position and connection: the morphology of rRNA and its influence on insect phylogeny
Tue, May 6 3:00 PM	Adela Oliva Graduate Student Dept. of Entomology University of Minnesota	Dengue control: advances in vaccine development and other strategies (non-thesis seminar)

3:00 PM - Refreshments

3:15 PM - Seminar

Room 490 Hodson Hall unless otherwise specified