Spring 2013 Entomology Seminar Schedule
| Coordinators: | Ken Raffa and Shawn Steffan |
| 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. |
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Date |
Speaker |
Title/Topic |
|---|---|---|
|
25-Jan. |
Dr. Mike Pfrender, University of Notre Dame |
Evolution in stressful environments: the genomic basis of adaptation |
| 1-Feb. | Dr. Robert Unckless, Cornell University | Causes and consequences of conflict in Drosophila |
| 8-Feb. | Dr. Zachariah Gompert, Texas State University | The genomic consequences of natural selection and barriers to gene flow |
| 15-Feb. | Dr. Sean Schoville, Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble |
Genetic approaches to understanding the role of climate in generating biodiversity |
| 22-Feb. | Dr. Ebony Murrell, UW-Madison | As Time Goes By: Mechanisms of Succession in Artificial Container Communities |
| 1-Mar. | Dr. Don Waller, UW-Madison | Whence Wisconsin's Forests? Disentangling drivers of ecological change |
| 8-Mar. | Dr. George Heimpel, University of Minnesota | Parasitoids of soybean aphid: Specificity and the process of biological control |
| 15-Mar. | Dr. Eve Emshwiller, UW-Madison | The Andean tuber, Oxalis tuberosa, as an example for new methods to assess conservation status of in-situ crop genetic diversity |
| 22-Mar. | Dr. John Orrock, UW-Madison | Invasive plants and historical land-use alter contemporary patterns of arthropod-mediated disease, granivory, and herbivory |
| 29-Mar. | SPRING BREAK | |
| 5-Apr. | Anders Huseth, UW-Madison | Effects of local landscape composition on Colorado potato beetle, Leptinotarsa decemlineata (Say): implications for IRM in Wisconsin |
| 12-Apr. | Dr. Patrick Tobin, US Forest Service | Climatic extremes as constraints to gypsy moth population growth |
| 19-Apr. | WISCONSIN ECOLOGY | |
| 26-Apr. | Jamin Dreyer, UW-Madison | Livin' on the Edge: aquatic insects at the boundary between lakes and land |
| 3-May | Phil Pellitteri, UW-Madison | The bugs have gone crazy--version 2012 |
| 10-May | Dr. Tom German, UW-Madison | Tomato spotted wilt virus acquisition by thrips: The small picture |
