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LinkedInPosts Tagged: UC Davis Department of Entomology
From Butterfly Research to High-Sugar Diet Research
What does butterfly metamorphosis have to do with high-sugar diet research? Well, you never know where research will take you. UC Davis distinguished professor Bruce Hammock, who holds a joint appointment with the Department of Entomology and Nematology and the UC Davis Comprehensive...
UC Davis distinguished professor Bruce Hammock (seated) with Jun-Yan Liu, professor at Chongqing Medical University, China, and a former research scientist (7.5 years) in the Hammock lab.
This 2010 image of Jun-Yan Liu shows him as a postdoctoral fellow working in the Bruce Hammock lab. He is now a professor at Chongqing Medical University, China. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
This archived image (2018) shows UC Davis distinguished professor Bruce Hammock (seated) with Hammock lab researcher Sung Hee Hwang (center) and former Hammock lab researcher Guodong Zhang, now on the UC Davis Department of Nutrition faculty. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Entomologist Jeff Smith: The Master Builder of Insect Specimen Drawers
When you slide open the butterfly and moth drawers at the Bohart Museum of Entomology, UC Davis, the color, size and shape of the specimens fascinate you. And then you notice how they are stored--in intricate wooden drawers made by entomologist and master builder Jeff Smith, volunteer curator...
Jeff Smith, curator of the Lepidoptera collection at the Bohart Museum, stands by the drawers he crafted. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The Bohart Museum drawers are intricately crafted. This one is of pine. Curator Jeff Smith has crafted and donated 2,487 of them for the Bohart Museum of Entomology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Close-up of a drawer in the Lepidoptera collection, Bohart Museum of Entomology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Franco: Deciphering Soil Macrobiome and Ecosystem Responses to Global Change
It promises to be an outstanding seminar. André Custodio Franco, assistant professor, Indiana University, Bloomington, will speak on "Deciphering the Soil Macrobiome: Belowground Communities Driving Ecosystem Responses to Global Change" at a seminar hosted Monday, Nov. 18 by the UC...
What's up with soil and global change? Andre Franco of Indiana University will speak on "Deciphering the Soil Macrobiome: Belowground Communities Driving Ecosystem Responses to Global Change" at 4:10 p.m., Monday, Nov. 18 in 122 Briggs Hall. It also will be on Zoom and then archived. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Why Phoenix Is the Place to Be Nov. 10-13
Phoenix is the place to be Nov. 10-13. That's the site of the Entomological Society of America's annual meeting, with thousands of entomologists descending upon the city and the Phoenix Convention Center (PCC). And UC Davis entomologists will be an important part of it. Eleven members of...
The UC Davis Entomology Graduate Student Association (EGSA) will be selling its member-designed t-shirts at the ESA meeting in Phoenix. Iris Quayle (left) of the Jason Bond lab, and Mia Lippey of the Meineke lab, will be giving presentations and also staffing the EGSA table. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Doctoral student Grace Horne, who studies with urban landscape entomologist Emily Meineke, will present the Environmental Entomology’s People’s Choice Runner-up presentation at the ESA meeting. It's titled "Specialist Herbivore Performance on Introduced Plants during Native Host Decline."
Eliza Litsey to Discuss a Novel Queen Honey Bee Treatment
If you're curious about honey bees, queens and juvenile hormones, you'll want to attend or hear the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology (ENT) seminar to be presented by apiculturist Eliza Litsey, a former graduate student in the honey bee lab of Elina Lastro...
Pointing out the queen bee. Apiculturist Eliza Litsey will present her exit seminar, hosted by the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, at 4:10 p.m., Monday, Nov. 4 in 122 Briggs Hall. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
