Entomology Seminar Archive

Due to changes in Virginia Tech's video hosting, links to past recorded seminars occurring before Fall 2026 are no longer available.

Fall 2025 Series

Date	Speaker	Affliation	Host	Title*
September 11th	Sally Entrekin	Virginia Tech Entomology	Tim Kring	Rescheduled
September 18th	Nicole Abaid	Virginia Tech Mathmatics	Margaret Couvillon	Collective energetic regulation in ant colonies: experiments and modeling
September 25th	Anne Staples	Virginia Tech Mechanical Engineering	Roger Schürch	Insect-inspired microfluidics
October 2nd	Judy Wu-Smart	University of Nebraska–Lincoln	Margaret Couvillon & James Wilson	From Field to Policy: Uncovering Non-Target Bee Impacts of Pesticide Pollution in Nebraska Agroecosystems
October 9th	Sally Entrekin	Virginia Tech Entomology	Tim Kring	Aquatic Insects Know No Boundaries: Carbon Transfer and Transformation Across Ecosystems
October 16th	Yu-Chieh David Chen	Temple University	Scotty Yang & Aaron Gross	Building the Blueprint of the Brain: Genetic and Molecular Strategies for Unraveling Sensory Circuit Development
October 23rd	Alejandro Del-Pozo	Virginia Tech Entomology	Tim Kring	Expanding the Toolbox: Applied Research for Improving IPM in Specialty Crops
October 30th	David Walters	U.S. Geological Survey	Sally Entrekin	Canceled
November 6th	ESA Practice Talks	Virginia Tech Entomology	-	-
November 13th	ESA Meeting - No Seminar	-	-	-
November 20th	Brenna Levine	Kean University	Warren Booth	Spotted lanternflies and the city: What can invasive insects teach us about urban evolution
November 27th	Thanksgiving - No Seminar	-	-	-
December 4th	Paula Buchanan	Columbia Climate School	Tim Kring	Drinking Water Resilience for Communities: Linking Socio-Hydrology to Agriculture, Public Health, and Extension Outreach

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

** Speaker requested the seminar not be recorded.

Spring 2025 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 23rd	No Seminar (Canceled)	-	-	-
January 30th	Boris Vinatzer	Virginia Tech School of Plant and Environmental Sciences	Jonathan Auguste	Making sense of nonsense: the challenge of sequence-based pathogen identification without culturing
February 6th	Jiangtao Liang	Virginia Tech Entomology	Maria Sharakhova	Hybrid Incompatibility and Sex Determination in Mosquitoes
February 13th	John Muller	Virginia Tech Entomology	Jonathan Auguste	Double your Cache: Cache Valley Virus Ecology, Distribution, and Sylvatic Contributors as determined by Niche Modeling, and the Development of an Mouse-adapted Strain for use in Immune-competent Murine Models.
February 20th	Bryan Hsu	Virginia Tech Biological Sciences	Jonathan Auguste	The viruses you might like: the impact of bacteriophages in the gut**
February 27th	Niranjana Krishnan	University of Maryland	Aaron Gross	Assessing the risk of pesticide exposures on monarch butterflies
March 7th	ESA Practice Talks - No Seminar	-	-	-
March 14th	Spring Break - No Seminar	-	-	-
March 20th	Kylene Kehn-Hall	Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine	Jonathan Auguste	Neurological Consequences of Viral Encephalitis: Behavioral Deficits, Neuronal Restructuring, and Therapeutic Interventions**
March 27th	Catherine Cotrupi	Virginia Tech Graduate School	Jonathan Auguste	Canceled
April 3rd	Haldre Rogers	Virginia Tech Fish and Wildlife Conservation	Sally Entrekin	Trophic cascade on a tropical island: the story of the invasive brown treesnake on Guam
April 10th	Yoshi Tomoyasu	Miami University Ohio	Margaret Couvillon	Origin and Evolution of the Insect Wing Gene Network
April 17th	Jennifer Tank	University of Notre Dame	Sally Entrekin	Understanding controls on eDNA removal in streams to improve molecular detection of rare or invasive species.**
April 24th	Anton Suvorov	Virginia Tech Biological Sciences	Paul Marek	Accurate and Scalable Phylogenetics for Evolutionary Inference**
May 1st	Margaret Couvillon	Virginia Tech Entomology	Tim Kring	Drinking From the Magic Well: The Utility, Novelty, and Magic of Investigating Honey Bee Waggle Dances

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

** Speaker requested the seminar not be recorded.

Fall 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*
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.

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.

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	Ersa Buyuktahtakin Toy	Virginia Tech Industrial & Systems Engineering	Scott Salom	Models and Insights into Emerald Ash Borer Management in Urban Settings
September 28th	Darryl Forest	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	Identifying a new scarecrow for agriculture: leveraging risk effects using predator cues to manipulate pest behavior
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	Social information and its role in foraging
February 23rd	Student Proposals	Virginia Tech	Paul Marek & Scotty Yang & Sally Entrekin	-
March 2nd	Andrea Gloria-Soria	Yale University	Maria Sharakhova	Diversification patterns of Aedes invasive mosquitoes
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	Stefan Jaronski	USDA/VT Entomology	Sally Entrekin	Fungus vs grasshopper behavioral fever
September 29th	Daniel C. Peck	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.