Entomology Seminar Archive
Fall 2023 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* |
| September 7th | Paul Huxley | Virginia Tech Statistics | Sally Entrekin | Trait-based approaches to understanding thermal adaptation in arthropods |
| September 14th | Noah Rose | University of California, San Diego | Maria Sharakhova |
Mosquito evolution and the emergence of mosquito-borne disease in the human era |
| September 21st | Virginia Tech Industrial & Systems Engineering | Scott Salom | Models and Insights into Emerald Ash Borer Management in Urban Settings | |
| September 28th | National Gallery of Art, Washington DC | W.B. Alwood Entomological Society | Protecting the Priceless – IPM in Art Galleries & Museums | |
| October 5th | - | - | - | - |
| October 12th | Carey Minteer | University of Florida | Tim Kring | Running on the invasive treadmill: Biological control in Florida |
| October 19th | Robert Jetton | North Carolina State University | Warren Booth & Scott Salom | Expanding the IPM toolbox: update on Hemlock Wolly Adelgid management in the Southern Appalachians |
| October 26th | - | - | - | - |
| November 2nd | ESA Practice Talks |
Virginia Tech Entomology | - | - |
| November 9th | ESA Meeting - No Seminar | - | - | - |
| November 16th | Jonathan Auguste | Virginia Tech Entomology | Tim Kring | CANCELLED |
| November 23rd | Thanksgiving - No Seminar | - | - | - |
| November 30th | Christina Kwapich | University of Massachusetts, Lowell | Scotty Yang | Evolution and ecological associations between ants and their myrmecophiles** |
*Recorded seminars are found by using the link on the title if the recording is available.
** Speaker requested the seminar not be recorded.
Spring 2023 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 19th | Sara Hermann | Penn State University | Margaret Couvillon & Shannon Bradley | |
| January 26th | Don Weber | USDA-ARS, Beltsville, MD | Stefan Jaronski & Thomas Kuhar | Putting pheromones to work in vegetables: steps after discovery |
| February 2nd | Don Mullins | Virginia Tech Entomology | Margaret Couvillon | Cockroaches: Weird animals that you should love…or at least appreciate |
| February 9th | T'ai Roulston | University of Virginia | James Wilson & Courtney Walls | Native Bee Conservation: Challenges and Opportunities |
| February 16th | Christoph Grüter |
University of Bristol | Roger Schürch | |
| February 23rd | Student Proposals | Virginia Tech | Paul Marek & Scotty Yang & Sally Entrekin | - |
| March 2nd | Andrea Gloria-Soria | Yale University | Maria Sharakhova | |
| March 9th | Spring Break - No Seminar | - | - | - |
| March 16th | ESA Practice Talks | Virginia Tech | - | - |
| March 23rd | ESA - No Seminar | - | - | - |
| March 30th | Corrie Moreau | Cornell University | Aaron Gross & Scotty Yang | Symbiosis in ants and why broadening our research community is essential for the best science |
| April 6th | Elske Tielens | University of Oklahoma | Sally Entrekin | Aerial insects in the Anthropocene: From field sampling to continental scale radar: assessing insect responses to global change |
| April 13th | Student Proposal | Virginia Tech | Sally Entrekin & Thomas Kuhar | - |
| April 20th | Shannon Ronca | Baylor College of Medicine | Jonathan Auguste | Virus-host interactions |
| April 27th | Jessica Ware | American Museum of Natural History | Alwood Entomological Society & Laura McHenry | Cancelled |
*Recorded seminars are found by using the link on the title if the recording is available.
** Speaker requested the seminar not be recorded.
Fall 2022 Series
These seminars in a previous semester and their recordings can be viewed by clicking on the link in their title.
| Date | Speaker | Affliation | Host | Title* |
| September 8th | No Seminar | - | - | - |
| September 15th | Kier Klepzig | The Jones Center at Ichauway, GA | Sally Entrekin & Scott Salom |
How insect-microbial symbioses can shape organisms and communities. |
| September 22nd | USDA/VT Entomology | Sally Entrekin | Fungus vs grasshopper behavioral fever | |
| September 29th | Vestaron | Thomas Kuhar | Insecticidal peptides: Primer on a new technology yielding novel tools for pest management | |
| October 6th | Anne Jones | VT Biology | Sally Entrekin | Selection for increased crop yield shapes plant-insect interactions |
| October 13th | Michelle Evans-White | University of Arkansas | Sally Entrekin | Ecology and distribution of Capniid winter stoneflies in Arkansas |
| October 20st | Alonso Ramirez | North Carolina State | Sergio Sabat-Bonilla & Sally Entrekin | Hurricane impacts and stream ecosystems in Puerto Rico: the response of aquatic insect assemblages |
| October 27th | Graduate Student Proposals | Virginia Tech Entomology | Maria Sharakhova | - |
| November 4th | Graduate Student Proposals |
Virginia Tech Entomology | Thomas Kuhar | - |
| November 10th | ESA Practice Talks | Virginia Tech Entomology | - | - |
| November 17th | ESA Meeting - No Seminar | - | - | - |
| November 24th | Thanksgiving - No Seminar | - | - | - |
| Dec 1st | Emily Reed | Virginia Tech Global Change Center | Sally Entrekin | Studying policy to inform biology: an invasive species case study |
*Recorded seminars are found by using the link on the title if the recording is available.
** Speaker requested the seminar not be recorded.
Spring 2022 Series
These seminars in a previous semester and their recordings can be viewed by clicking on the link in their title.
| Date | Speaker | Affliation | Host | Title* |
| January 27th | Matt Heron | Georgia Institute of Technology | Margaret Couvillon | The evolution of multicellularity |
| February 3rd | Lorena Lopez | Virginia Tech Eastern Shore AREC | Thomas Kuhar | Development of sustainable management techniques for insect and mite pests in vegetable production systems |
| February 10th | Jose R. Loaiza | Smithsonian Tropical Research Insitute | Gillian Eastwood | Research priorities for the long-term control of Aedes mosquitoes in Panama |
| February 17th | No Seminar | - | - | - |
| February 24th | No Seminar | - | - | - |
| March 3rd | Chow-Yang Lee | University of California, Riverside | Scotty Yang | Insecticide resistance and its management in bed bugs — a global perspective |
| March 10th | Spring Break - No Seminar | - | - | - |
| March 17th | Lindy McBride | Priceton University | Maria Sharakhova | Why and how a dangerous disease vector mosquito evolved to selectively target humans |
| March 24th | Christoph Grüter | University of Bristol, England | Roger Schürch | CANCELLED |
| March 31st | Graduate Student Proposals | Virginia Tech Entomology | - | - |
| April 7th | Steve Golladay | Jones Center | Sally Entrekin | Of Limpkins, Apple Snails, and Mayfly Mass Emergence: Invasive Species, Novel Ecosystems, and an Uncertain Future |
| April 14th | Zach DeVries | University of Kentucky | Dini Miller | Urban Pests, Pesticides, and Emerging Contaminants |
| April 21st | Joe Keiper | Virginia Museum of Natural History | VT Entomology | Forensic Entomology: Principles & Reality |
| April 28th | Graduate Student Proposals | Virginia Tech Entomology | - | - |
*Recorded seminars are found by using the link on the title if the recording is available.
** Speaker requested the seminar not be recorded.
Fall 2021 Series
These seminars in a previous semester and their recordings can be viewed by clicking on the link in their title.
| Date | Speaker | Affliation | Host | Title* |
| September 9th | Eric Day | Virginia Tech Entomology | Department of Entomology | At a Crossroad, Recent Invasive Arthropods Threatening Virginia |
| September 16th | Brendan Hunt | University of Georgia | Roger Schürch |
Supergene Mediated Social Polymorphism in the Fire Ant S. invicta |
| September 23rd | Isabell Kingori |
Kenyatta University | Gillian Eastwood | Cohort Study of Infection and Treatment of Primary School Children with Mixed Schistosoma mansoni, Schistosoma haematobium In Taveta Sub Country Kenya. |
| September 30th | Graduate Student Proposals |
- | Sally Taylor | - |
| October 7th | Graduate Student Proposals | - | Margaret Couvillon | - |
| October 14th | Stefan Jaronski | Virginia Tech Entomology & USDA ARS | Department of Entomology | Expect the Unexpected or You Will Miss it. Beauveria, a Pathogen of Wheat Stem Sawfly, as an Endophyte in Wheat |
| October 21st | Christine Carrington | University of the West Indies | Jonathan Auguste | Genomics of SARS-CoV-2 in the Caribbean |
| October 28th | ESA Practice talks | - | - | - |
| November 4th | No Seminar - ESA |
- | - | - |
| November 11th | Kevin Loope | Georgia Southern University | Margaret Couvillon | TBD |
| November 18th | Tracey Leskey | USDA ARS | Chris Bergh | Developing Sustainable Management Tactics for an Invasive Species in a Vulnerable Cropping System: The Story of the Brown Marmorated Stink Bug |
| November 25th | Thanksgiving - No Seminar | - | - | - |
| Dec 2nd | Graduate Student Proposals | - | Roger Schürch & Scotty Yang | - |
*Recorded seminars are found by using the link on the title if the recording is available.
** Speaker requested the seminar not be recorded.
Spring 2021 Series
These seminars in a previous semester and their recordings can be viewed by clicking on the link in their title.
| Date | Speaker | Affliation | Host | Title* |
| January 28th | Maria Sharakhova | Virginia Tech Entomology | Igor Sharakhov | A journey from America to Europe: evolutionary history of the Holarctic malaria mosquitoes |
| February 4th | Stephen Whitehead | National Institutes of Health (NIH) | Jonathan Auguste |
Arbovirus pathogenesis and vaccine development |
| February 11th | Tracey Leskey | USDA-ARS | Chris Bergh | CANCELLED |
| February 18th | Kris Silver | University of Kansas | Aaron Gross | Unraveling Systemic RNA Interference Responses in Insects |
| February 25th | Spring Break Day - No Seminar | - | - | - |
| March 4th | Shannon LaDeau | Cary Institute of Ecosystem Science | Mary Loften (EEB) | Identifying and managing riskscapes of vector-borne disease in urban ecosystems** |
| March 11th | Sven-Erik Spichiger | WA State Dept Agriculture | Entomology Graduate Students | Invasive species management - Asian giant hornet in WA state |
| March 18th | Assa Balayara | Senegal Plant Protection Directorate | Doug Pfeiffer | Invasive pest species (oriental fruit fly and fall army worm) in Senegal/Africa |
| March 25th | Ellen Lake | USDA-ARS | Scott Salom | Biological Control of insects using insects against non-native plants** |
| April 1st | Graduate Student Proposals | Virginia Tech Entomology | - | - |
| April 8th | Chris Fettig | USDA Forest Service | Scott Salom | Small pests, big problems: Why bark beetles are chewing their way through western forests and what we can do about it |
| April 15th | Natalie Clay | Louisiana Tech | Sally Entrekin | Salted soil and salty leaves: Impacts of NaCl on detritivores in riparia |
| April 22nd | Graduate Student Proposals | Virginia Tech Entomology | - | - |
| April 29th | Alexandra Cumbie | Virginia Tech Entomology | Gillian Eastwood | Tick-borne rickettsial pathogens |
*Recorded seminars are found by using the link on the title if the recording is available.
** Speaker requested the seminar not be recorded.
Fall 2020 Series
These seminars in a previous semester and their recordings can be viewed by clicking on the link in their title.
| Date | Speaker | Affliation | Host | Title* |
| September 10th | Kirby Stafford | Connecticut Ag. Exp. Station, & State Entomologist of CT | Gillian Eastwood | Strategies and Challenges to Tick-Borne Disease Prevention: It’s More Than Just Lyme Disease |
| September 17th | Graduate Student Proposals | - | Dini Miller/ Jonathan Auguste |
Graduate Students: Dakotah Todd and James Carver |
| September 24th | Michael Hoffman | Cornell University | Thomas Kuhar | Our changing menu: What climate change means to the foods we love and need |
| October 1st | Robert Puckett | Texas A&M | Dini Miller | Red Imported Fire Ant management |
| October 8th | Claudia Rückert | University of Nevada | James Weger | Antiviral responses of Culex spp. mosquitoes – capacity building in understudied arbovirus vector mosquitoes. |
| October 15th | Fred Gould | NC State University | Sally Taylor | How Eugenics Impacted Agricultural Biotechnology |
| October 22nd | Jenny Jandt | University of Otago, New Zealand | Maggie Couvillon | Vespula wasps show consistent differences in colony-level aggression over time and across contexts |
| October 29th | Daniel Hasegawa | USDA-ARS | Alejandro Del-Pozo | Epidemiology of plant virus-insect vector interactions |
| November 5th | Cerruti Hooks | University of Maryland | Daniel Frank | Ecological-based management of insect pests |
| November 12th | Brian Lovett | West Virginia University | Stefan Jaronski | Insect-killing fungi and their potential as versatile biotechnology |
| November 19th | ESA - No Seminar | - | - | ASTMH & Entomology 2020 (ESA) Nov 16-19th |
| November 26th | Thanksgiving - No Seminar | - | - | - |
| Dec 3rd | Graduate Student Proposals | Virginia Tech Entomology | - | - |
*Recorded seminars are found by using the link on the title if the recording is available.
** Speaker requested the seminar not be recorded.
Spring 2020 Series
These seminars in a previous semester and their recordings can be viewed by clicking on the link in their title. Due to COVID-19 all in person seminars were canceled after March 5th.
| Date | Speaker | Affliation | Host | Title* |
| January 23rd | Megan Meuti | Ohio State University | Aaron Gross | Uncovering the underpinnings of seasonal responses in mosquitoes |
| January 30th | Mary Salcedo | Virginia Tech Biomedical Engineering | Sally Entrekin | Circulation of hemolymph in the wings of the North American grasshopper |
| February 6th | Kathijo Jankowski |
University of WI | Sally Entrekin | Linking land and water in a large river: Understanding the distribution and role of large wood in the Upper Mississippi River** |
| February 13th | Coby Schal |
NC State University | Dini Miller | Chemical ecology in and around homes: Semiochemicals used right under our noses** |
| February 20th | Graduate Student Proposals | Virginia Tech Entomology | - | - |
| February 27th | Takao Sasaki | University of Georgia | Maggie Couvillon | Psychology of animal groups: when and how collective intelligence emerges from individual cognition |
| March 5th | Adrian Smith | NC State University | Entomology Graduate Students | From Social Insect Communication to Science Communication Online |
| March 12th | Spring Break - No Seminar | - | - | - |
*Recorded seminars are found by using the link on the title if the recording is available.
** Speaker requested the seminar not be recorded.
Fall 2019 Series
These seminars in a previous semester and their recordings can be viewed by clicking on the link in their title.
| Date | Speaker | Affliation | Host | Title* |
| September 12th | Dr. Igor Sharakhov | VT, Entomology | Dr. Dini Miller | Basic and applied aspects of mosquito cytogenetics and genomics |
| September 19th | Dr. Gina Angelella | VT Eastern Shore AREC | Dr. Megan O'Rourke | Implications of agricultural intensification for ecosystem services & disservices: insect-vectored pathogens, pest suppression, & pollination |
| September 26th | Dr. Liz Gleim | Hollins University | Dr. Gillian Eastwood | Ticks & Fire: Can long-term prescribed fire be used to reduce tick-borne disease risk? |
| October 3rd | Dr. Mike Weaver | Virginia Tech Extension | Dr. Tim Kring | Alwood - The Bug House Legacy |
| October 10th | Dr. Stefan Jaronski | USDA, VT | Dr. Tom Kuhar | Entomopathogens - Managing insect pests with fungi - Where are we going? Where should we be going? |
| October 17th | Dr. Luis Escobar | VT, Fish and Wildlife | Dr. Gillian Eastwood | Vector-borne disease in the face of climate and land-use change invasive species, fleas, ticks, and mosquitos |
| October 24th | Dr. Doug Pfeiffer | VT, Entomology | Dr. Dini Miller | Spotted Lanturnfly in Virginia: Establishment, expansion, and challenges |
| October 31st | Dr. Megan O'Rourke | VT, SPES | Dr. Tom Kuhar | Cancelled |
| November 7th | Dr. Claire Rittschof | University of Kentucky | Dr. Maggie Couvillon | Busy bees: integrative approaches to behavior and health |
| November 14th | ESA Practice Talks | - | - | - |
| November 21st | ESA - No Seminar | - | - | - |
| November 28th | Thanksgiving - No Seminar | - | - | - |
| Dec 5th | Graduate Student Proposals | - | Dr. Aaron Gross | Graduate Student: Morgan Roth |
*Recorded seminars are found by using the link on the title if the recording is available.
** Speaker requested the seminar not be recorded.
Spring 2019 Series
These seminars in a previous semester and their recordings can be viewed by clicking on the link in their title.
| Date | Speaker | Affliation | Host | Title* |
| January 31st | Dr. Paul Marek | VT, Entomology | Dr. Maggie Couvillon | Appalachian millipede diversity and the evolution of bioluminescence |
| February 7th | Dr. Kelly Maloney | USGS | Dr. Sally Entrekin | Predicting and forecasting biological condition of streams in the Chesapeake Bay watershed using benthic macroinvertebrates |
| February 14th | Dr. V. Bruce Steward | CORTEVA Agriscience | Dr. Scott Salom | Uncertainty is certain in industry: a perspective from and entomologist in corporate agri-sciences |
| February 21st | Mr. Greg Pond |
US EPA Region III | Dr. Sally Entrekin | Macroinvertebrates at the source: indicators of flow in extreme headwaters** |
| February 28th | Dr. Jeff Bloomquist | University of Florida | Dr. Aaron Gross | New bioassay methods and chemistries for vector control |
| March 7th | ESA EB Practice Talks | - | - | - |
| March 14th | ESA EB – No seminar | - | - | - |
| March 21st | Dr. Kasie Raymann | UNCG | Dr. Maggie Couvillon | The impact of the gut microbiome on honey bee health** |
| March 28th | Dr. Chloé Lahondere | VT, Biochemistry | Dr. Roger Schürch | Thermal biology, eco-physiology and neuroethology of disease vector insects |
| April 4th | Dr. Susan Fahrbach | Wake Forest University | Dr. Maggie Couvillon | Impacts of fipronil on honey bee brain development |
| April 11th | Dr. Philip Tipping | USDA-ARS | Dr. Scott Salom / Jeremiah Foley | Canceled |
| April 18th | Student Proposals | - | - | - |
| April 25th | Student Proposals | - | - | - |
| May 2nd | Student Proposals | - | - | - |
| May 9th | Dr. Roberto Galizi | Imperial College | Dr. Igor Sharakhov | Genetic tools for the control of human malaria mosquitoes |
*Recorded seminars are found by using the link on the title if the recording is available.
** Speaker requested the seminar not be recorded.