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Spring 2012 Entomology Seminar Schedule

Coordinators:	Claudio Gratton and Susan Paskewitz
Time:	Friday from 12:00 to 1:00 pm (unless otherwise noted below)
Location:	150 Russell Labs (unless otherwise noted below) 1630 Linden Drive, Madison, WI
Directions/Map:	http://www.entomology.wisc.edu/contact-us-0
Questions:	Contact UW Madison Entomology Department main office at 608-262-3227.

Date	Speaker	Title/Topic
January 27	Dr. Phil Pelliteri Distinguished Faculty Associate Department of Entomology University of Wisconsin - Madison	"Wonders from Outerspace ?"- Diagnostic Lab Highlights of 2011
February 3	Dr. Chris Williamson Associate Professor Department of Entomology University of Wisconsin - Madison	"Organized Chaos: Life of an Extension/Research Specialist"
February 10	Dr. David Hoekman Post-doctoral Associate Department of Entomology University of Wisconsin	"A billion midges: how aquatic insects influence terrestrial food webs."
February 17	Dr. Yoshito Chikarashi Institute of Biogeosciences Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology	"Compound-specific stable isotope analysis of amino acids as a novel tool for ecological food web studies"
February 24	Dr. Arietta Fleming Davis University of Chicago	"From Ants to Outbreaks: Combining Theory and Field Experiments to Understand the Ecology of Mutualists and Pathogens"
March 1 (Thursday) Note different Date and Location: AHBS 101, noon and March 2 (Friday) Note different Location:Ebling Hall, Microbial Sciences at noon	Dr. Alex Raikhel Professor, University of California - Riverside Dr. Alex Raikhel Professor, University of California - Riverside	"Regulatory cascades controlling mosquito reproduction" "The regulation of mosquito immunity" Co-sponsored with University Lectures Committee
March 9	Dr. Heidi Goodrich-Blair Department of Bacteriology University of Wisconsin - Madison	"Regulation of virulence and host immune suppression in the insect pathogen Xenorhabdus nematophila"
March 16 Co-sponsored with Agroecology and WISA	Dr. Casey Hoy Ohio State University	"Agroecosystem Networks and Agroecosystem Health"
March 23 CANCELLED	Craig Brabant Ph.D. Candidate, Exit seminar UW-Madison Dept. of Entomology	"Taxonomic revision and phylogenetic analysis of Tallium (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae)"
March 28 (Thursday) Note different date and time: 4:00 pm Genetics Auditorium 425 Henry Mall	Dr. David Jablonski Dept. of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology University of Chicago	"Out of the tropics: Dynamics of the latitudinal diversity gradients" Wisconsin Ecology 15th Annual Spring Symposium
April 13	Joe Piesman Centers for Disease Control	"Lyme disease prevention: Challenges and opportunities"
April 20	Dr. Eric Lonsdorf Chicago Botanical Gardens	"Modeling Pollination Services Across Agricultural Services
April 27	Dr. Sai Suryanarayanan Department of Community and Environmental Sociology University of Wisconsin - Madison	"Finding Sustainable Solutions to Honey Bee and Pollinator Health"
May 4	Xia Lee MS Exit Seminar	"Distribution of Ixodes scapularis and infection with Borrelia burgdorferi in Wisconsin"