Entomology Seminar

Fall 2024 Series

All seminars are scheduled for Thursday 3:00 – 4:00 P.M. in person in 220 Price Hall unless otherwise indicated. All seminars will have a virtual component for people who want to participate virtually. If you are interested in attending these seminars virtually you may register here to receive the Zoom links and calendar reminders automatically.

Date	Speaker	Affliation	Host	Title*
September 12th	Jason Rasgon	Penn State	Warren Booth	In vivo germline editing technologies in insects and beyond
September 19th	Julie Allen	Virginia Tech Biology	Paul Marek	Integrating Bioinformatics and Public Engagement to Answer Questions in Evolutionary Biology.
September 26th	Jory Brinkerhoff	University of Richmond	Gillian Eastwood	Emergence and spatial expansion of tick-borne disease in Virginia
October 3rd	Ryan Garrick	University of Mississippi	Warren Booth	How does past lineage fusion affect reconstruction of long-term population history?
October 10th	Andrew Suarez	University of Illinois	Scotty Yang	Patterns and consequences of body size variation in ants
October 17th	No Seminar (VT Football Game)	-	-	-
October 24th	Mark Johnson	University of Illinois	Roger Schürch	Environmental DNA analysis for the assessment of arthropod biodiversity and plant-arthropod interactions
October 31st	Adrian Smith	NC Museum of Natural Sciences & NCSU	W. B. Alwood Entomological Society	TBD
November 7th	ESA Practice Talks	Virginia Tech Entomology	-	-
November 14th	ESA Meeting - No Seminar	-	-	-
November 21st	Sweta Agrawal	Virginia Tech Neuroscience	Aaron Gross	Using insect models to uncover the function and evolution of proprioceptive circuits
November 28th	Thanksgiving - No Seminar	-	-	-
December 5th	Warren Booth	Virginia Tech Entomology	Tim Kring	Comparative population genetics of bed bugs

*Recorded seminars are found by using the link on the title if the recording is available.

** Speaker requested the seminar not be recorded.

Entomology Seminar Series Fall 2024.pdf

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Spring 2024 Series

These seminars are from a previous semester and their recordings can be viewed by clicking on the link in their title.

Date	Speaker	Affliation	Host	Title*
January 18th	Daniel McGarvey	Virginia Commonwealth University	Sergio Sabat-Bonilla, Sally Entrekin, & Ento DEI Committee	Health, Inclusion, Insecta: an Unexpected Yet Timely Trifecta
January 25th	Jay Evans	USDA-ARS	Dorothea Tholl & Margaret Couvillon	Managing Pollinator Health
February 1st	Catherine Febria	University of Windsor	Sally Entrekin	One informs the other: Harmonizing habitat and benthic invertebrate monitoring in community-up stewardship and species at risk conservation in the Great Lakes Basin
February 8th	Jason Rasgon	Penn State University	Warren Booth	CANCELED
February 15th	Tappey Jones	Professor Emeritus, Department of Chemistry, VMI	Anne Jones	Forty-eight Years in Arthropod Chemical Ecology
February 22nd	Ashley Jernigan	Virginia Tech School of Plant and Environmental Science	Thomas Kuhar	The role of soil microarthropods in sustainable cropping systems
February 29th	William Lamp	University of Maryland	Thomas Kuhar	Non-target effects of Bt corn debris on stream structure and function: The changing approach of environmental risk assessment
March 7th	Spring Break - No Seminar	-	-	-
March 14th	ESA - No Seminar	-	-	-
March 21st	Jessica Ware	American Museum of Natural History	W.B. Alwood Entomological Society	Research Seminar: Insect evolution, with an emphasis on Odonata (dragonflies and damselflies) Diversity Seminar: A Conversation with Dr. Jessica Ware - Biodiversity: Diversifying Museums and Entomology
March 28th	Lindsay Miles	Virginia Tech Entomology	Warren Booth	Arthropod gene flow and genetic drift in urban environments
April 4th	Julián Hillyer	Vanderbilt University	Aaron Gross	Not so heartless: functional integration of the immune and circulatory systems of mosquitoes
April 11th	Margarita López-Uribe	Penn State University	Margaret Couvillon, Courtney Walls, & Lindsay Johnson	Buzzing through Time: The Interplay of Ecology, Evolution, and Humans on Bees’ Recent History**
April 18th	Thomas Chouvenc	University of Florida	Morgan Wilson & Dini Miller	Termite biology, evolution and control
April 25th	Jonathan Auguste	Virginia Tech Entomology	Tim Kring	The Tale of an Insect-Specific Virus: from Ecology to Vaccine Development

*Recorded seminars are found by using the link on the title if the recording is available.

** Speaker requested the seminar not be recorded.

Past Entomology Seminar Series Archive