Departmental Seminars
Departmental Seminars
The Entomology Department regularly hosts seminars during the spring and fall teaching semesters in at noon on Fridays in Russell Labs 150 or via Zoom. For each seminar listed below, note the format may be in-person, virtual, or both. Use this link to join the recurring zoom meeting for virtual attendance.
2023 Spring Colloquium
| Date | Speaker | Title | Affiliation | Format |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 3 | Molli Pauliot | The Emerald Ash Borer’s Impact on Ho-Chunk Black Ash Baskets | UW-Madison Anthropology | In-person |
| Feb 10 | Jennifer Zaspel | Integrating collections, research, education, and exhibits to advance biodiversity science and STEM learning | VP/Academic Dean, Milwaukee Public Museum | In-person |
| Feb 17 | Jay Watson | WI DNR's Terrestrial Insect Conservation & Management Program | WI Department of Natural Resources | Via zoom |
| Feb 24 | Jared Ali | CANCELLED: Chemical Ecology of Plant Defense and Multi-trophic Interactions: Bad Bugs, Pungent Parasites and Toxic Travelers | Penn State | Cancelled due to weather |
| Mar 3 | Seth Donoughe | Eggshells and wings: How developing tissues build complex materials, and what this reveals about predictability in evolution | University of Chicago | In-person |
| Mar 10 | Olivia Bernauer | Global change and pollinators: Functional diversity and resilience | UW-Madison Entomology | In-person |
| Mar 17 | No Colloquium | Spring Break | ||
| Mar 24 | PJ Liesch | Tales from the Insect Diagnostic Lab: Trends and other Stories from 2022 | UW-Madison Entomology | In-person |
| Mar 31 | Miriam Kishinevsky | Parasitoids in the field: what do we assume and what do we know? | UW-Madison | In-person |
| Apr 7 | Allee Hochmuth | Communication and Conflict Transformation 101: A Cross-Disciplinary Approach | UW-Madison | In-person |
| Apr 14 | August Easton-Calabria | MS defense | UW-Madison Entomology | In-person |
| Apr 21 | Quinn McFrederick | The weird world of pathogens, microbes, and meat-eating bees | UC Riverside | In-person |
| Apr 28 | Ben Iuliano | Ph.D. defense: Ecological and social dimensions of insect natural enemy conservation in Wisconsin agricultural landscapes | UW-Madison Entomology, Integrative Biology | In-person |
| May 5 | Skye Bruce (Harnsberger) | Ph.D. defense: Landscape ecology & conservation of grassland butterflies in Wisconsin | UW-Madison Entomology | In-person |
Past seminar series
+2022 Fall Colloquium
2022 Fall Colloquium
| Date | Speaker | Title | Affiliation | Format |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 16 | Berry Brosi | Effects of experimentally induced community-level phenological mismatches on plant pollination and fecundity | University of Washington | In person |
| Sep 23 | Rick Lindroth | The butterfly effect: highlights, lowlights, and insights from my 37-year career at UW-Madison | UW-Madison | In person (Rm. 184, 10:45AM) |
| Sep 30 | Shawn Steffan and Allee Hochmuth | Departmental Codes and Policies etc. | UW-Madison | In person |
| Oct 7 | Ainsley Seago | Evolution of beetle iridescence | Carnegie Museum of Natural History (Pittsburgh, PA) | Virtual |
| Oct 14 | Russ Groves | Departmental awards and recognition | UW-Madison | In-person |
| Oct 21 | Prarthana Dharampal | Microbes within food webs--the invisible dark matter that matters | UW-Madison | In-person |
| Oct 28 | Bobbi Peckarsky | Effects of climate change on stream insects | UW-Madison | In-person |
| Nov 4 | Ignacio Escalante Meza | Mechanisms and evolutionary implications of behaviors: biomechanics and communication in an arachnid | UW-Milwaukee/University of Illinois at Chicago | In-person |
| Thu Nov 10 | Victoria Lason | Characterizing Insect Feeding Behaviors Which Enhance Epiphytic Salmonella enterica Bacterial Populations | UW-Madison | In-person (Rm. 147, 9-10am) |
| Nov 11 | Zeyaur Khan | An Adventure in Applied Entomology: A History of Three Decades of Research and Future Directions of Push-Pull Agriculture in Africa | International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology, Kenya | Virtual |
| Nov 18 | Xia Lee | Zuam thiab Hmoob (Ticks and the Hmong) | WI DHS + UW Entomology | In-person |
| Nov 25 | No Colloquium | Thanksgiving Break | ||
| Thu, Dec 1, 4-5pm | Dr. Laura Figueroa | Bees, bugs & beyond: one researcher's story to understand and promote pollinator health and inclusivity in science | University of Massachusetts-Amherst | In-person (Rm. 216 - Shorger Library) |
| Dec 9 | Anurag Agrawal | Doane Lecture | Cornell EEB | In-person |
| Thu, Dec 15 | Mitchell Lannan | MS Exit Seminar: Impact of attract-and-kill on Popillia japonica (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) and survey of bee abundance and diversity in Wisconsin vineyards | UW-Madison Entomology | In-person |
+2022 Spring Colloquium
2022 Spring Colloquium
| Date | Speaker | Topic/Title | Affiliation | Format |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 28 | Celso Oliveira | Phytochemical diversity and plant-insect interactions | UW-Madison | In-person |
| Feb 4 | Dr. Shalene Jha | Plant-animal interactions and ecosystem services in the face of global change | University of Texas, Austin | Virtual |
| Feb 11 | Dr. Lynn Adler | Floral traits mediating bee-pathogen interactions | University of Massachusetts, Amherst | Virtual |
| Wed, Feb 16 | Dr. Emily Bick | Digital Entomology: Approaches in precision pest ecology | University of Copenhagen | In-person and virtual |
| Feb 18 | No seminar | - | - | - |
| Feb 25 | Dr. Punya Nachappa | Wild wild west: emerging viruses and viroids of hemp in Colorado | Colorado State | In-person |
| Mar 4 | No noon seminar | - | - | - |
| Mar 4, 1:00-2:00pm | Precision Pest Ecology candidate #2 | Research Seminar | In-person (Russell 184) and virtual | |
| Wed, Mar 9 | Dr. Sara Emery | Big data, conservation biological control and precision pest ecology | UC Davis | In-person and virtual |
| Mar 11 | Dr. Art Woods | Thermal ecology of aspen leaf miners | University of Montana, Missoula | In-person |
| Mar 18 | SPRING BREAK | - | - | - |
| Mar 25 | PJ Liesch | 2021's Trends and Highlights from the UW Insect Diagnostic Lab | UW-Madison | In-person |
| Thu, Mar 31 | Dr. Diana Six | From little to big: Bark beetle-fungus symbiosis effects at the landscape level | University of Montana, Missoula | Doane lecture (in-person, 584 Russell Labs) |
| Apr 1 | Dr. Diana Six | Forests, bark beetles and a changing climate: Finding trees that have what it takes to persist in the face of severe outbreaks | University of Montana, Missoula | Doane lecture (in-person) |
| Apr 8 | Dr. Amelia Lindsey | Symbiont-mediated losses of sex in parasitoid wasps | University of Minnesota | In-person and virtual |
| Apr 15 | Dr. Lora Richards | Caterpillars, chemistry, and plants: A story of diversity and scale | University of Nevada, Reno | In-person and virtual |
| Apr 22 | Dr. Emily Poppenborg Martin | Arthropod biodiversity and ecosystem services in farmland: pathways to prediction, pathways to enhancement? | University of Hannover | Virtual |
| Apr 29 | Yi-Ming Weng | Evolution in sky islands: how alpine beetles respond to glacial cycles | UW-Madison | In-person and virtual |
| May 6 | Erin Lowe | Dissertation defense | UW-Madison | In-person and virtual |
+2021 Fall Colloquium
2021 Fall Colloquium
| Date | Speaker | Title | Affiliation | Format |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fri, Sep 10 | EGSA-hosted picnic | In person | ||
| Fri, Sep 17 | Dr. Matt Smith | The mechanisms and ecological impact of individuality in insect behavior | UW-Madison (from Harvard) | In person + Virtual |
| Fri, Sep 24 | Dr. Genevieve Pugesek | The cryptic life cycle stages of bumble bees: using natural history to guide conservation | UW-Madison (from Tufts) | In person + Virtual |
| Fri, Oct 01 | Dr. D. André Green II | Monarch migration as an integrative model of complex trait evolution | University of Michigan | Virtual |
| Fri, Oct 08 | Dr. Joe Louis | Regulation of plant defense responses to sap-sucking aphids | University of Nebraska | Virtual |
| Fri, Oct 15 | Dr. Mary Jamieson | Understanding drivers of plant-insect interactions: from landscapes to molecules | Oakland University | In person + Virtual |
| Fri, Oct 22 | Dr. Lynette Strickland | Variation in nature: maintenance, control and benefits | University of Memphis | Virtual |
| Fri, Oct 29 | Dr. Lora Richards | Phytochemical diversity, plant-insect interactions | University of Nevada-Reno | In person + Virtual |
| Fri, Nov 05 | No colloquium (Entomology Society of America Meeting) | |||
| Tue, Nov 9 | Dr. Gebbiena Bron - Research Seminar | From plague to Rift Valley fever: exploring vector-borne pathogen invasion, persistence, and control | Wageningen University | In person (Rm 150) |
| Wed, Nov 10 | Dr. Gebbiena Bron - Teaching Seminar | Zoonotic vector-borne diseases: How they stay with us and how to control them | Wageningen University | In person (Rm 216) |
| Fri, Nov 12 | Dr. Anurag Agrawal | Convergence and divergence in the diversity of insects feeding on a toxic plant | Cornell University | In person (Doane Lecture) + Virtual |
| Mon, Nov 15 | Dr. Andrew MacDonald | Infectious disease in a changing world: Land use and climate change impacts on vector-borne disease | University of California, Santa Barbara | In person (Rm 150) + Zoom |
| Tue, Nov 16 | Dr. Andrew MacDonald | Planetary health impacts of land use and land cover change | University of California, Santa Barbara | In person (Rm 216) + Zoom |
| Fri, Nov 19 | Dr. Anthony Vaudo | Bee nutritional ecology: unifying behavior, communities, and conservation | University of Nevada-Reno | Zoom |
| Fri, Nov 26 | No colloquium (Thanksgiving) | |||
| Mon, Nov 29 | Dr. Jean Tsao - Research Seminar | Distribution of Lyme disease risk in the eastern US: it's not just about the ticks....or is it? | Michigan State | In person (Rm 150) + Zoom |
| Tue, Nov 30 | Dr. Jean Tsao - Teaching Seminar | Emerging infectious diseases and spillover events: Cats, mink, deer, oh my! | Michigan State | In person (Rm 216) + Zoom |
| Fri, Dec 03 | DEI Committee | |||
| Fri, Dec 10 | Martin Ventura | Student Defense | UW-Madison | In person + Zoom |