Department of entomology seminar series FALL Semester 2003 E-164 Lagomarcino Hall 4:10 pm Monday (unless otherwise stated)

Sept     15        Dr. Bryony Bonning, Department of Entomology, Iowa State University

            Basement Membranes and Recombinant Baculovirus Insecticides

            22        1.10 pm 2104 Gilman Hall

John VanDyk, Department of Entomology, Iowa State University

PhD dissertation seminar

Use of the Internet for Aggregation, Specimen Presentation and Distance Learning

29        Derrick Exner, Department of Agronomy, Iowa State University

            Solving Problems with On-Farm Research

Oct       6         Dr. Rollie Clem, Division of Biology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas

                        The Role of Apoptosis in Defense Against Baculovirus Infection in Larval Lepidoptera

13        Matt Cummings, Department of Entomology, Iowa State University

                        MS thesis seminar

            Genetic Studies on the House Fly Musca domestica L.

Tues    14        4.10 pm 210 Bessey Hall

Dr. Allan K. Dowdy, USDA-APHIS-Plant Protection and Quarantine Center for Plant Health Science and Technology, Raleigh, North Carolina

                        Arthropods and Plant Biosecurity

                        Co-sponsored by the Department of Plant Pathology

            20        Graduate Student ESA presentations:

                        Jeffrey Bradshaw, Department of Entomology, Iowa State University

            Managing Bean Leaf Beetles and Bean Pod Mottle Virus in Soybean with a Seed-Treated

Neonicotinoid and a Foliar Pyrethroid

                        Patti Anderson, Department of Entomology, Iowa State University

                        Effects of Bt-Corn Anthers on Monarch Butterfly Larvae

Nov      3          Dr. Sonthaya Tiawsirisup, DVM

                        PhD dissertation seminar

Vector Competence of Aedes albopictus (Diptera: Culicidae) versus Ochlerotatus trivittatus (Diptera: Culicidae) for West Nile Virus

            10        Dr. Thomas Sappington, Department of Entomology, Iowa State University

Glimpses into the Curious World of Adult European Corn Borer Behavior and Ecology

            17        Dr. Saskia Hogenhout, Department of Entomology, Ohio State University, Wooster, Ohio

                        Rhabdovirus Host Range; a Bug's View.

Tues    18        12.10 pm 327 Bessey Hall

Dr. Saskia Hogenhout, Department of Entomology, Ohio State University, Wooster, Ohio

Genome Sequencing of Aster Yellows Phytoplasma and Comparative Genome Analysis of Mollicutes

                        Seminars co-sponsored by the Department of Plant Pathology and the Plant Sciences Institute

Wed     19        12.10 pm W262 Lagomarcino Hall

Dr. Conrad Labandeira, Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History,

Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.

Plant-Insect Associations in Deep Time: Paleozoic Patterns and the Initial Launching of Herbivory

 

Thurs   20        4.10 pm E164 Lagomarcino Hall

Plant-Insect Associations in Deep Time: Mesozoic and Early Cenozoic Patterns from Early Seed Plants and Angiosperms                                                                               Co-sponsored by EEOB

Dec      1          Dr. Kurt Redborg, Department of Biology, Coe College, Cedar Rapids, Iowa

                        Mantispids in Iowa

 

8          Dr. Mary Harris, Curator, Butterfly Wing, Reiman Gardens, Iowa State University

            The First Year of the Christina Reiman Butterfly Wing