Entomology Seminar Series
Fall 2007
Mondays,
3:30 pm
Alexander Conference
Room (201 Fernald Hall), UMass campus
Please contact the
host if you would like to meet with the speaker.
September 10 Nor Chejanovsky, Volcani Center, Israel: Immune response of the lepidopteran Spodoptera littoralis to baculovirus infection. (Host: John Burand, jburand@microbio.umass.edu)
September 17 Scott Smedley, Trinity College: Hair-borne Chemical Defenses in Insects: When a Bad Hair Day Can Prove Fatal. (Host: Roy Van Driesche, vandries@nre.umass.edu)
September 24 Doug Norris, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health: Mosquitoes, Behavior and Molecular Genetics: Gaining an Understanding of the Vectorial Components of Malaria Transmission in Southern Zambia. (Host: Stephen Rich, smrich@psis.umass.edu)
October 1 Craig Woodard, Mt. Holyoke College: Steroid Control of Development in Drosophila. (Host: John Stoffolano, Stoff@ent.umass.edu)
October 8 NO SEMINAR -- COLUMBUS DAY
October 15 Sara Cahan, University of Vermont: Learning from the Exception: Genetically Based Caste Determination in Pogonomyrmex Harvester Ants. (Host: John Stoffolano, stoff@ent.umass.edu)
October 22 Nora Besansky, Notre Dame University: Recombination, Adaptation and Speciation in the African Malaria Mosquito Anopheles gambiae. (Host: Stephen Rich, smrich@psis.umass.edu)
October 29 Kristi Montooth, Brown University: Genetic Interactions and the Evolution of Physiological Performance in Drosophila.(Host: Norman Johnson, njohnson@ent.umass.edu)
November 5 Manuel Morales, Williams College: Tri-trophic Dynamics in an insect Protection Mutualism. (Host: Lynn Adler, lsadler@ent.umass.edu)
November 12 NO SEMINAR -- VETERANS' DAY
November 19 Yong-Lak Park, West Virginia University: Insect Pest Management with Geospatial Technology. (Host: Anne Averill, aaverill@ent.umass.edu)
November 26 Charles Ross, Hampshire College: Scale-independent Criteria and Scale-dependent Agents Influencing the Structure of Cricket Hybrid Zones. (Host: Adam Porter, aporter@ent.umass.edu)
December 3 May Berenbaum, University of Illinois, C. P. Alexander Speaker: Gut Reactions--How Insects Eat Plants. (Host: Entomology graduate students, c/o Sandy Gillespie, sgillesp@nsm.umass.edu)
December 10 NO SEMINAR SCHEDULED – Entomological Society of America Conference
Supported in part by the C.P. Alexander Fund and the Department of Plant, Soil, and Insect Sciences