Tony Goldberg, Department of Pathobiological Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison Title: “Simian hemorrhagic fever virus and its relatives: curious pathogens, or coming plague?” Host: Gabe Hamer

Announcing:  Department of Entomology Seminar Series, Fall 2016  Thursday, November 10th, 4:00 p.m., Heep Center, Room 103 Carter Atkinson, U.S. Geological Survey, Pacific Island Ecosystems Research Center “Vector-borne parasites and conservation of pacific island forest birds” Host: Gabe Hamer Pre-Seminar Social and Refreshments at 3:30 p.m., 4th Floor Atrium, Minnie Belle Heep Center

Announcing! Department of Entomology Seminar Series, Fall 2016  Thursday, December 1st, 4:00 p.m., Heep Center, Room 103 Christine Merlin, Department of Biology, Texas A&M University Title: "Circadian clock control of the monarch butterfly seasonal migration" Host: EGSO

Announcing: Department of Entomology Seminar Series, Spring 2017 Thursday, January 26th, 4:00 p.m., Heep Center, Room 103 Norman Barr - USDA-APHIS-PPQ-S&T, Center for Plant Health Science and Technology, Mission Laboratory, Edinburg, TX. Title: “Molecular Diagnosis of the Oriental Fruit Fly, Bactrocera dorsalis: Methods Needed to Support Pest Exclusion” Host: Dr. Greg Sword, gasword@tamu.edu Pre-Seminar Social […]

Lynn Kimsey – University of California, Davis, Department of Entomology and Nematology. Title: “Delusional Infestation, or All Those Little Friends You Never Knew You Had” Host: Jim Woolley

Hsiao-Hsuan (Rose) Wang – Texas A&M University, Ecological Systems Laboratory, Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences Title: “Modeling Ecological Dynamics in Temporally Variable, Spatially Heterogeneous Environments: Spatial Ecology of Invasive Plants, Native Wildlife, and Tick-borne Disease Risk” Host: Pete Teel, Taylor Donaldson, Ashleigh Faris

Alex Wild – University of Texas at Austin, Department of Integrative Biology. Title: “How to Take Better Insect Photographs” Host: Juliana Rangel

Molly Hunter – University of Arizona, Department of Entomology. Title: “The Rise and Fall of a Transformational Endosymbiont of Whiteflies” Host: Greg Sword

Gregg Howe – Michigan State University, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology. Title: “Plant Defense Against Insect Herbivores: Mechanistic Insights into Growth-Defense Tradeoffs” Host: Spencer Behmer

Micky Eubanks – Texas A&M University, Department of Entomology. Title: “The Effect of Invasive Ants on the Spread of Aphid-Vectored Plant Viruses” Host: Micky Eubanks

Department of Entomology Seminar Series, Spring 2017  Thursday, March 30th, 4:00 p.m., Heep Center, Room 103 **PERRY ADKISSON DISTINGUISHED SPEAKER AWARD** Frank Zalom – University of California, Davis, Department of Entomology and Nematology. Title: “Invasive Species, Integrated Pest Management, and One Perspective from the West Coast” Host: David Ragsdale, t-gold@tamu.edu Pre-Seminar Social and Refreshments at […]

Job Lopez – Baylor College of Medicine, National Center for Tropical Medicine. Title: “Defining the Intricacies of Vector Competency and Transmission of Tick-borne Relapsing Fever Spirochetes” Host: Pete Teel