Spring 2011

ENTOMOLOGY SEMINAR SCHEDULE

Coordinators: Johanne Brunet and Eileen Cullen

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.

Date	Speaker	Title/Topic
Spring 2011
January 28 Co-Sponsored by WISELI	Dr. Allison Snow Professor, Ohio State University Dept. of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology	"Ecological effects of gene flow from transgenic crops to their weedy relatives"
February 4	Dr. Liza Holeski Post-doctoral Research Associate, UW-Madison Dept. of Entomology	"Patterns of herbivory defense in monkeyflowers and cottonwood"
February 11	Dr. Tony Goldberg Professor, UW-Madison Dept. of Ecology, Epidemiology, and Evolution of Health and Disease	"Ecology of West Nile virus transmission in Chicago, Illinois"
February 18	Dr. Thomas Green President, IPM Institute of North America	“IPM in the Marketplace: Buzz, battles, beef and implications for the future of IPM in the public sector”
February 25	Dr. Cameron Currie Associate Professor, UW-Madison Bacteriology	"Drugs from bugs of bugs'"
March 4	Dr. Larry Phelan Professor, Ohio State University Dept. of Entomology	"Biological Buffering: How soil life enhances cropping system resilience & resistance to biotic stressors"
March 11 Co-Sponsored by WISELI	Dr. Laurie Drinkwater Associate Professor, Cornell University Dept. of Horticulture	"Biogeochemistry of a socioecological system: Nitrogen cycling in the Mississippi River Basin"
March 18	No Seminar Spring Break
March 25	Dr. Ian Kaplan Assistant Professor, Purdue University Dept. of Entomology	"The ecology of fear in arthropod food webs: causes, constraints, and consequences"
April 1	Dr. Amy Toth Assistant Professor, Iowa State University Dept. of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology	"Comparative physiology and genomics of sociality: evolutionary insights from bees and wasps"
April 8 Please Note: Different Time and Location! Time: 3:30pm Biotech Center Auditorium	Dr. Mary Power Professor, University of California- Berkeley Dept. of Integrative Biology	"Algal-mediated links of river, watershed, and coastal food webs" Wisconsin Ecology 16th Annual Spring Symposium Co-Sponsored by UW-Madison Entomology Department
April 15	Dr. Bobbi Peckarsky Professor Emeritus Cornell University & Honorary Fellow UW-Madison, UW-Madison Dept. of Zoology	"Variation in trophic cascades across a riverscape"
April 22	John Couture PhD Exit Seminar, UW-Madison Dept. of Entomology	"Effects of atmospheric change on plant-herbivore interactions: from individuals to ecosystems"
April 29	Dr. Nick Waser Professor Emeritus UC Riverside & Scientist University of Arizona	"Typology, natural history and the future of pollination biology"

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