Entomology Seminar Schedule - Spring 2008
Mondays 4:00 – 5:00 p.m.
East Campus Union
Refreshments - 3:45 p.m.
| January 28 | "Responsible Conduct of Research" Daniel Vasgird, Research Compliance Director, UNL |
| February 4 | "Colony Collapse Disease: Alien Abduction, Cell Phones and Other Theories" Dr. Marion Ellis, Department of Entomology |
| February 11 | "Differential Responses of the Chinch Bugs, Blissus occiduus Barber and B.
leucopterus hirtus Montandon, to Neonicotinyl Insecticides"
Mitchell Stamm, Graduate Student, Department of Entomology |
| February 18 | "A Characterization of the Arthropod Community of Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum)"
Sandra Schaeffer, Graduate Student, Department of Entomology |
| February 25 | "Termite Predators and Termite Defenses" Stephen Young, Graduate Student, Department of Entomology |
| March 3 | "Molecular Interactions Between Plant Viruses and Their Arthropod Vectors" Dr. Anna Whitfield, Department of Plant Pathology, Kansas State University |
| March 10 | "From Boxcar to Basement: Hobo Spiders, an Emerging Issue" Neil Spomer, Graduate Student, Department of Entomology |
| March 24 | "Comparison of Asian and European Corn Borer Sensitivity to Bacillus thuringiensis Toxins" Sek Yee Tan, Graduate Student, Department of Entomology |
| March 31 | "Effects of Insect Pollinators and Herbivores on Sunflower Fitness" Kentaro Miwa, Graduate Student, Department of Entomology |
| April 7 | "Biological Control Using Trichogramma evanescens (Westwood) (Hymenoptera:Trichogrammatidae)" Santiago Palizada, Graduate Student, Department of Entomology |
| April 14 | "Is There a Difference in Soybean Aphid Resistance Between Seedling and Reproductive Soybeans?"
Lanae Pierson, Graduate Student Department of Entomology |
| April 21 | "Techniques for Enhancing Efficacy of Oxalic Acid Treatments for Varroa destructor and an Investigation of Potential Negative Effects on Honey Bee
Colony Members" Jeremy Wagnitz, Graduate Student, Department of Entomology |
| April 28 | "Genetic Diversity of the Stable Fly, Stomoxys calcitrans (L.) (Diptera:Muscidae)" Kathleen Kneeland, Graduate Student, Department of Entomology |
