College of Natural & Agricultural Sciences

December 03, 2018 @ 4:10 pm
Genomics Auditorium, 1102A
Title: Pollinators and pollination under pressure: the impacts of pesticide exposure on wild bees Abstract: Pollinators are essential to agricultural production (particularly fruit, vegetable and nut crops) and maintaining the health and diversity of wild plant communities. There is well established evidence showing…
November 26, 2018 @ 4:10 pm
Genomics Auditorium, 1102A
Title: Investigating how viruses modulate plant-insect interactions. Abstract: Most viral pathogens depend on insect vectors for transmission among plants and, ultimately, for survival. As a result, vector-plant interactions are critical to virus epidemiology.My lab seeks to determine the molecular mechanisms that…
November 19, 2018 @ 4:10 pm
Genomics Auditorium, 1102A
Title: The ecological stoichiometry of mutualism and antagonism in a bark beetle-fungi symbiosis   Abstract: Insect herbivores face some of the greatest deficiencies in N and P in their food. We applied ecological stoichiometry theory (EST) to investigate how a bark beetle deals with such elemental mismatches via…
November 05, 2018 @ 4:10 pm
Genomics Auditorium, 1102A
Title: The Consequences of Livestock-Wildlife Integration for Tick-Borne Disease Risk in Central Kenya Abstract: Historically, livestock ranching and biodiversity conservation have been considered conflicting uses of African savannas because wildlife and livestock compete for grazing resources and exchange pathogens and…
October 29, 2018 @ 4:10 pm
Genomics Auditorium, 1102A
Title: "The effects of genes, personality, networks, and space on collective behavior" Abstract: Many biological systems are complex aggregates of multiple agents working together towards collective, higher-order goals without central control. System components rely on local cues to determine their behavior. Therefore,…
October 22, 2018 @ 4:10 pm
Genomics Auditorium, 1102A
Title: Ticks Facilitate Pathogen-Symbiont Transitions Abtract: Ticks transmit pathogenic bacteria and also contain beneficial endosymbionts that are closely related to pathogens. For example, the human Q-fever pathogen Coxiella burnetii and the closely related Coxiella-like endosymbionts (CLEs) are found…
October 15, 2018 @ 4:10 pm
Genomics Auditorium 1102A
Title: "Exploring the ant tree-of-life: phylogeny and evolution of the world’s preeminent social insects"   Abstract: Ants are one of evolution’s great success stories. Arising in the mid-Cretaceous about 120 million years ago, they now comprise a diverse assemblage of more than 15,000 species, and collectively…
October 08, 2018 @ 4:15 pm
Genomics Building, 1102A
Title: Feeding, Mating, and Flight Dispersal Behavior of the Invasive Pest Species,  Lycorma delicatula (Hemiptera: Fulgoridae)    Abstract:The spotted lanternfly, Lycorma delicatula, is an invasive fulgorid bug species that was recently accidentally introduced into North America, likely from indigenous…
October 01, 2018 @ 4:10 pm
Genomics Building, 1102A
Title:  “Ankyrin domain encoding genes from an ancient horizontal transfer are functionally integrated into Nasonia developmental gene regulatory networks”  Abstract:How regulatory networks incorporate additional components, and how novel genes are functionally integrated into well established developmental processes,…
September 28, 2018 @ 4:00 pm
Picnic Hill
An opportunity for the Faculty, Staff, and Students to become acquainted with one another before the start of the academic year. 
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