All seminars will be presented via Zoom. Some seminars will also be held in-person in the Stephens Room (3503 Thomas Hall).
Decisions regarding in-person seminars will be announced via email from the department.
| Date | Time | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1/10 | 11:15am | Mary Barbercheck and Imtiaz Ahmad | Department of Entomology, The Pennsylvania State University | Going Underground: The Ecology of a Multifunctional Fungus in Organic Cropping Systems |
| 1/24 | 11:15am | Daniel Peck | Vestaron, Inc The power of proteins | Insectidical peptides: Primer on a new technology yielding novel tools for pest management |
| 1/31 | 11:15am | Elizabeth Kirkwood | NC State Wilson College of Textiles, NC State | WholeGarment® knitting of military clothing with bite protection against mosquitoes and other arthropods |
| 2/7 | 11:15am | Silvana Paula-Moraes | Department of Entomology, University of Florida, West Florida Research and Education Center | Studies of the ecology of lepidopteran pests to support Integrated Pest Management and Insect Resistance Management recommendations. |
| 2/14 | 11:15am | Sumit Dhole | Biomathematics Program, NC State | Eradication Through Evolution: Gene Drives for Controlling Pest Populations |
| 2/21 | 11:15am | Fred Gould | Department of Entomology & Plant Pathology, NC State | Interdisciplinary research and education at NC State: Past, Present and Future |
| 2/28 | 11:15am | Anna Whitfield | Department of Entomology & Plant Pathology, NC State | Never say never: Lessons learned from negative-strand RNA viruses that infect insects and plants |
| 3/7 | 11:15am | Martha Mutschler-Chu | Professor of Plant Breeding, Cornell University | Tomato lines that control insects and insect-transmitted virus: use as research tools and in breeding commercial tomato hybrids |
| 3/21 | 11:15am | Tony Shelton | Professor of Entomology, Cornell University | Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good: the Bt eggplant project in Asia |
| 4/7 | 10:00am | Maria Diuk-Wasser (Mike Duke Seminar) | Columba University, Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology Department | - |
| 4/11 | 11:15am | Jason Rasgon | Department of Entomology, Penn State University | The ReMOT Control revolution: CRISPR made easy for non-model systems |
| 4/18 | 11:15am | Rajagopalbabu Srinivasan | Department of Entomology, University of Georgia | Macro and micro level interactions between begomoviruses and their whitefly vector |
| 4/25 | 11:15am | Yolanda Chen | Gund Institute for the Environment, Dept of Plant and Soil Science, University of Vermont | People and the evolution of insect herbivores in agroecosystems |