Fall 2011

ENTOMOLOGY SEMINAR SCHEDULE

Coordinators: Claudio Gratton and Susan Paskewitz

All seminars are on Friday from 12:00 to 1:00pm unless otherwise noted, 150 Russell Labs, 1630 Linden Drive, Madison, WI.
Directions and map to Russell Labs provided here. If you have questions, please contact UW Madison Entomology Department main office at 608-262-3227.

Click Here to read about the Charles Doane Lecture Series

Fall 2011

Date

Speaker

Seminar Topic

September 9

Please Note: Different Time and Location!

4 - 6pm, 237 Russell Labs (conference room)

 

Welcome Bugs and Suds!

 

 

September 16

Cesar Rodriguez-SaonaAssistant Extension Specialist

Rutgers University, Department of Entomology 

"Can plant volatiles help in crop protection against herbivores?"

September 23

 

Anna Schotthoefer, PhD

Marshfield Research Foundation

"Anaplasmosis: the other tick-borne disease in Wisconsin"

September 30

 

Dave Coyle, PhD

University of Georgia,School of Forestry and Natural Resources

 

“What lurks beneath:  Invasive rhizophagous weevils in northern hardwood forests”

October 6

Please Note: Different Time and Location!

THURSDAY: 4:00pm- 5:30pm

Location: The Forum at WID

Elinor Ostrom

2009 Nobel Prize Winner in Economic Sciences

Distinguished Professor at Indiana University & Research Professor at Arizona State University

Cosponsored with 17th Annual Wisconsin Ecology Fall Symposium

Polycentric Institutions to Cope with Ecological and Social Diversity

 

 

October 13

 

Please Note: Different Time and Location!

THURSDAY: 3:30pm - 4:30pm

Location: Birge B302

Daniel Gruner, Assistant Professor

University of Maryland, College Park, Department of Entomology

Co-sponsored with Zoology and Botany

“Food web interactions in an archipelago of volcanically isolated forest fragments”

 

 

October 21

Kristen Bernard, Associate Professor

University of Wisconsin, School of Veterinary Medicine

"Mosquito/arbovirus/Host interactions "

October 28

 

Ezra Schwartzberg, PhD

UW Entomology, Lindroth Lab

 

“Aphids' strong command of the chemical language:
examples of dispersal and plant defense.”

 

November 4

 

Rufus Isaacs, Professor

Michigan State University, Department of Entomology

"Integrated Crop Pollination: adventures with bees, blueberries, and biofuels"

November 10

Please Note: Different Time and Location!

THURSDAY: Noon to 1pm

Location: 184 Russell Labs

Gene Robinson, Professor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Charles Doane Entomology Distinguished Lecture