Department of entomology seminar series
SPRING Semester 2007
Mondays, 4.10 pm, E164
Lagomarcino Hall unless stated otherwise - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 
Jan 25 Note time and location: Thursday 3:45 pm, 210 Bessey Hall
Dr. Ehab Abouheif, Department of Biology, McGill University, Quebec, Canada
Searching for a Synthesis Between Environment, Development, and Evolution: The Case of the Winged and Wingless Ant Castes
29 Dr. Jerry DeWitt, Director, Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture, and Department of Entomology, ISU
The Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture: Our Programs and Opportunities for You
Feb 5 Dr. Russell Currier, Executive Vice President, American College of Veterinary Preventive Medicine
Scabies: Story of "The Itch" From Ancient Times to the Present and Implications for Recognition and Control
12 Dr. Douglas Sumerford, USDA, ARS and Department of Entomology, ISU
Bt-resistant Colonies of European Corn Borer: Tools to Evaluate Genetic Parameters Impacting the Evolution of Resistance to Bt Corn
26 Dr. Junwei Zhu, Department of Entomology, ISU and MSTRS Technologies Inc.
Help Plants to Self-Defense: New Developments using Plant Indirect Defense against Aphid Pests on Soybeans
Mar 5 Dr. Toni Nappi, former Emeritus professor of Biology and Faculty Scholar, Loyola University, Illinois
Melanogenesis and Its Role in Insect Cellular Immunity
19 F. Wendell Miller Lecture:
Dr. Peter Price, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona
Insect Design and Life History, and Their Consequences for Ecology: Distribution, Abundance, and Population Dynamics
Apr 2 Hirofumi Kosaki, Department of Entomology and Program in Toxicology, ISU
M.S. thesis seminar
Environmental Studies on the Fate and Behavior of Pharma Proteins Produced in Transgenic Corn
9 Kelsey Prihoda, Department of Entomology and Program in Toxicology, ISU
M.S. thesis seminar
Development of Methods to Determine the Aquatic Fate and Non-target Effects of Transgenic Bt Proteins on Aquatic Invertebrates: Toward Risk Assessment
Wedn. 11 Dingfei Hu, Department of Entomology and Program in Toxicology, ISU
PhD dissertation seminar
Environmental Fate of a Veterinary Antibiotic: Tylosin
16 EGSO Speaker:
Dr. Hugh Robertson, Department of Entomology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Note time and location: 11:10 am, 333 Science II
Insect Chemoreceptors: The Molecular Basis for Smell and Taste
4:10 pm, E164 Lagomarcino Hall
The Honey Bee Genome: Circadian Rhythms, Telomeres, and Genes Lost from Drosophila
Wedn. 18 David Dorhout, Department of Entomology, ISU
MS thesis seminar
When the Past Comes Alive: The Resurgence of the Western Bean Cutworm
23 Paul A. Dahm Memorial Lecture:
Dr. Glenn King, Professor of Molecular, Microbial & Structural Biology, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, CT
Itsy Bitsy Spider Toxins and Their Potential for Insect Control