Department of Entomology

Title: Entomology and Public Health: A Look at Life inside the Vector-Borne Disease Section, California Department of Public Health. Abstract: Shortly after completing my Ph.D. in entomology at UCR, I was fortunate to not only be offered a job, but was simultaneously offered a position in academia and at a state agency. The…

Title: “Pollination networks: structure, function, and responses to perturbations." Abstract: How pollination and other ecological networks balance functioning with the redundancy needed for stability is an ongoing mystery. I will discuss ongoing modeling work to unravel how topological and quantitative network structures…