Entomology Seminar Series
The Entomology Seminar is generally held weekly on Thursdays from 11:05 AM to 12:05 PM. Please check the schedule because some meetings are held on different dates and times*
August 29th, 11:05 AM - 12:05 PM
2123 Comstock/Zoom & A137 Barton Lab (speaker will be in person)
Speaker: Mike Hoffmann, Cornell University
Using the power of food to confront climate change
September 5th, 11:05 AM - 12:05 PM
2123 Comstock/Zoom & A137 Barton Lab (speaker will be in person)
Speaker: TBC
TBC
Host: Kyle Wickings
September 12th, 11:05 AM - 12:05 PM
2123 Comstock/Zoom & A137 Barton Lab (speaker will be in person)
Speaker: Baldwyn Torto, International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe), Nairobi, Kenya
Strategies to manage pests of Solanaceae crops
Host: Christophe Duplais
September 19th, 11:05 AM - 12:05 PM
2123 Comstock/Zoom & A137 Barton Lab (speaker will be in person)
Speaker: Laurel Symes, Cornell Center for Conservation Bioacoustics
TBC
Host: Cole Gilbert
September 26th, 11:05 AM - 12:05 PM
2123 Comstock/Zoom & A137 Barton Lab (speaker will be in person)
Speaker: Peter Nagy, Cornell University
A pathogen-specific Nox-Atm-Cytokine pathway controls epithelial cell turnover upon infection
Host: Nicolas Buchon
October 3rd, 11:05 AM - 12:05 PM
2123 Comstock/Zoom & A137 Barton Lab (speaker will be in person)
Speaker: Ann Hajek, Cornell University
Spongy moth: A tale of two pathogens
Host: Cole Gilbert
October 10th, 11:05 AM - 12:05 PM
2123 Comstock/Zoom & A137 Barton Lab (speaker will be in person)
Speaker: Mike Turell fmr. USA AMRIID Arbovirologist
50 years of research at the U. S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases.
Host: Laura Harrington, Corrie Moreau
October 17th, 11:05 AM - 12:05 PM
2123 Comstock/Zoom & A137 Barton Lab (speaker will be in person)
Speaker: Don Weber, USDA ARS Invasive Insect Biocontrol and Behavior Lab
Applying aggregation pheromones to management of vegetable pests
Host: Laura Martinez, Jennifer Thaler
October 24th, 11:05 AM - 12:05 PM
2123 Comstock/Zoom & A137 Barton Lab (speaker will be in person)
Speaker: Deepika Vasudevan, University of Pittsburg
Multiple modes of mRNA translation regulation in stress response signaling
Host: Brian Lazzaro
October 31st, 11:05 AM - 12:05 PM
2123 Comstock/Zoom & A137 Barton Lab (speaker will be in person)
Speaker: Kara Fikrig, Cornell University
A hitchhiker's guide to the Amazon: a tale of the rural invasion of the dengue mosquito and the quest for vector control
Host: Laura Harrington
November 7th, 11:05 AM - 12:05 PM
2123 Comstock/Zoom & A137 Barton Lab (speaker will be in person)
Speaker: Scott Keith, Cornell University
Endocrine regulation of fat body gene regulatory networks
November 21st, 11:05 AM - 12:05 PM
2123 Comstock/Zoom & A137 Barton Lab (speaker will be in person)
Speaker: Marc Dionne, Imperial College, London
Costs and consequences of peptide-based immunity
Host: CIHMID, Brian Lazzaro
December 5th, 11:05 AM - 12:05 PM
2123 Comstock/Zoom & A137 Barton Lab (speaker will be in person)
Speaker: Brandy St. Laurent, Cornell University
Thermal suitability of Plasmodium falciparum infection in the urban malaria vector Anopheles stephensi under variable humidity
Host: Courtney Murdock
Zoom link for all Fall 2024 Entomology seminars: (see weekly emails for additional details)
**Check Life Sciences Lecture Series site for Zoom details: https://mcclintock-lecture-series.research.cornell.edu/speakers/