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/