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Department of Entomology Spring 2000 Seminar Series
Seminars take place in E-164 Lagomarcino Hall at 4:10 p.m. Mondays (unless otherwise stated).
| February 7 | Dr. Richard Wilson, Department of Entomology, ISU What's the National Plant Germplasm System all about? |
| February 14 | Dr. Marty Condon, Department of Biology, Cornell College, Iowa Courting flies on cucurbits: Diversification in the Blepharoneurinae (Tephritidae). |
| February 21 | Dr. Robert K. Peterson, Dow AgroSciences, Indianapolis The challenge of the Food Quality Protection Act: Risk assessment and pesticide registration. |
| February 28 | Dr. Gary Munkvold, Department of Plant Pathology, ISU Insect-plant pathogen interactions and some implications of Bt corn. |
| March 2 | Dr. Michael Perich, Department of Entomology, Walter Reed Institute for Medical Research, Washington D.C. Vector Control and the Management of Arthropod-borne Disease |
| March 6 | John VanDyk, Department of Entomology, ISU A cooperative search engine for Integrated Pest Management information. |
| March 13 | Spring Break |
| March 20 | Miller Lecturer: Dr. Gary Blomquist, Department of Biochemistry, University of Nevada, Reno Ecdysteroid and JH regulation of pheromone production in houseflies and bark beetles. |
| March 27 | Andrew Alverson, Department of Entomology, ISU M.S. thesis seminar Feeding ecology of larval net-winged midges (Diptera: Blephariceridae: Blepharicera) from the southern Appalachian Mountains. |
| Friday March 31 | Note special time and location: 12.10 pm, W142 Lagomarcino Tracy Michaels, Department of Entomology, ISU and Dow AgroSciences, San Diego Ph.D. thesis seminar Host range, greenhouse, and field results of Bacillus thuringienis against white grub (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) pests of turf. |
| April 3 | Dr. Sam Ochieng, Postdoctoral Research Associate Department of Entomology, ISU Sensory physiology of parasitic Hymenoptera: Towards development of a biosensor. |
| April 14 | Paul A. Dahm Memorial Lecture in Entomology: Dr. Robert M. Hollingworth, Department of Entomology, Michigan State University, and Director of National Food Safety and Toxicology Center The future for insecticides: The end of the beginning or the beginning of the end? 12:10 pm in W142 Lagomarcino Hall. |
| April 17 | EGSO Speaker: Dr. Orley Taylor, Department of Entomology, University of Kansas, and Director of the conservation group Monarch Watch Monarch migration: Orientation, navigation and a general theory. Second presentation: Note special time and location 8 pm Gallery, Memorial Union Monarch Watch: Using butterflies to facilitate science education. |
| April 24 | Dr. Royce Bitzer, Postdoctoral Research Associate Department of Entomology, ISU Collembola as indicators of environmental quality in transgenic soybeans. |
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