Calendar
Upcoming Events
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Monday, October 5, 2020
4:00 pm |
Entomology Colloquium - Priscila Hanisch, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Suarez Lab and Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales - "Integrative approaches to study the diversity and ecology of South America’s predatory ants (Formicidae: Ponerinae)" (View all information) |
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Monday, October 12, 2020
4:00 pm |
ESA Practice Talks (View all information) |
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Monday, October 19, 2020
4:00 pm |
Entomology Colloquium - Kacie Athey, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Washington State University (soon to be Specialty Crops Entomologist, Crop Sciences, UIUC) - "It’s raining moths: Drone technology for sterile codling moth release" (View all information) |
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Monday, October 26, 2020
4:00 pm |
Entomology Colloquium - Bernarda Calla, Research Scientist, Dept. of Entomology, UIUC - "Genomic and evolutionary insights from the sequencing of two Lepidoptera species" (View all information) |
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Monday, November 2, 2020
4:00 pm |
Entomology Colloquium - Grad Student Exit Seminar - Eric South - "Molecular phylogeny of the North American Plecoptera" (View all information) |
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Monday, November 9, 2020
4:00 pm |
Entomology Colloquium - Ophelia Bolmin, PhD candidate, Mechanical Science and Engineering, Bio-inspired Adaptive Morphology (BAM) Lab - "Overcoming Muscles Limitations: Power Amplification in Click Beetles" (View all information) |
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Sunday, November 15, 2020
6:00 pm |
Entomology 2020—ESA’s Virtual Annual Meeting—Illinois Mixer (View all information) |
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Saturday, November 21, 2020
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Thanksgiving Break Begins (View all information) |
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Monday, November 30, 2020
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Instruction resumes (remote only - students do not return to campus this semester) (View all information) |
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Monday, November 30, 2020
4:00 pm |
Entomology Colloquium - Grad Student Exit Seminar - Joshua Gibson - “Biomechanics and evolution of trap-jaw ants: An origin story for a superpowered animal” (View all information) |
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Monday, December 7, 2020
4:00 pm |
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Wednesday, December 9, 2020
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Last Day of Instruction, Fall Semester (View all information) |
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Thursday, December 10, 2020
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Reading Day/IT No Change Period in effect (View all information) |
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Tuesday, January 19, 2021
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First Day of Instruction, Spring Semester (View all information) |
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Saturday, March 13, 2021
8:30 am |
Spring Vacation Begins (View all information) |
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Monday, March 22, 2021
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Instruction resumes (View all information) |
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Wednesday, May 5, 2021
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Instruction Ends (View all information) |
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Thursday, May 6, 2021
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Reading Day/IT No Change Period in effect (View all information) |
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Friday, May 7, 2021
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Final Exams Begin (View all information) |
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Saturday, May 15, 2021
8:30 am |
Commencement (View all information) |
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Monday, May 17, 2021
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First Day of Instruction, Summer Term 1 (View all information) |
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Monday, June 14, 2021
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First Day of Instruction, Summer Term 2 (View all information) |
Recent Colloquium Speakers
| Date | Speaker | Title |
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| September 14, 2020 |
Dr. Ashley St. Clair Postdoctoral Research Associate |
A life in the green desert: Wild and managed bee response to Midwestern soybean agroecosystem |
| August 31, 2020 | Associate Scientist | A Ticky Situation: Building a Statewide Tick Surveillance Program in Illinois |
| August 24, 2020 |
Corbyn Giers |
Effects of Anthropogenic Change on Interactions Between North American Tephritid Flies and Their Biotic Associates |
| March 9, 2020 |
Teresia Njoroge Entomology Grad Student Exit Seminar |
Evaluation of the role of plant-derived chemicals on mosquito ecology and control |
| March 2, 2020 |
Dr. Gyan Harwood Postdoc |
Social immunity and host-pathogen interactions in honey bees |
| February 24, 2020 | Farmingdale State College | EduComics and Insects! Fitting together outreach, education, and entomology as an early-career professor |
| February 17, 2020 | Western University | Genes for altruism: inclusive fitness theory in the age of genomics |
| February 10, 2020 |
Dr. Valeria Trivellone Visiting Research Scholar |
Evolution of complex interactions between plants, pathogens and insect vectors |
| February 3, 2020 | University of Kansas | Aquatic beetle diversification: A tale of ecological promiscuity and geographic constraint |
| January 27, 2020 | California Institute of Technology | How flies fly |
| December 9, 2019 | University of Richmond | Eco-epidemiology of tick-borne diseases in an area of increasing tick-borne disease incidence |
| December 2, 2019 | Rutgers University | On the divergence of insects: using systematics to better understand the evolution of insect sociality, migration and flight |