Colloquium: Spring 2012
All colloquia are scheduled for Monday afternoons at 4:00 p.m. in B102 CLSL Auditorium. See you there!
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Date
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Speaker
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Title
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Institution
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| January 23 | Alex Harmon-Threatt | Preference and proteins: Understanding resource use of pollinators for conservation | Washington University, St. Louis |
| January 30 | Karen Kapheim | Developmental influences of social flexibility in a neotropical sweat bee (Megalopta genalis) | Department
of Entomology University of Illinois |
| February 6 | Blair Siegfried | Developing sustainable approaches to corn insect pest management | Department of Entomology University of Nebraska, Lincoln |
| February 13 | Adrian Smith | Policing of worker reproduction in the ant Aphaenogaster cockerelli | Department
of Entomology University of Illinois |
| February 20 | Patricia Pietrantonio | A chamber of secrets: molecular mechanisms involved in reproduction of the red imported fire ant Solenopsis invicta Buren | Department of Entomology Texas A&M University |
| February 27 | Mark Moffett | Life and colony size among the ants | Smithsonian Institute |
| March 5 | Kent Walters | Methamphetamine alters behavior in Drosophila melanogaster, disrupting energy metabolism and hastening mortality | Department
of Entomology University of Illinois |
| March 12 | Robert Mitchell | Exit Seminar: Chemical communication in cerambycid beetles and the molecular basis of olfaction | Department
of Entomology University of Illinois |
| March 19 | Spring Break - no seminar. | ||
| March 26 | Sindhu Krishnankutty | Exit Seminar: Systematics and biogeography of leafhoppers (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) in Madagascar | Department
of Entomology University of Illinois |
| April 2 | Jason Bond | Phylogenetic approaches to evaluating relationships and species boundaries in highly structured taxa: Lessons learned from trapdoor spiders | Department of Biological Sciences Auburn University |
| April 9 | Christina Grozinger | Genomics of honeybee social behavior and health | Department of Entomology Pennsylvania State University |
| April 16 | Dan Papaj | Signal uncertainty in plant-pollinator interactions: Studies with bees and butterflies | Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of Arizona |
| April 23 | Duane McKenna | Molecular phylogenetics and evolution of beetles: Insights from genes and genomes | Department of Biology University of Memphis |