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Department of Entomology Seminar Series
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Faculty Seminar Series

Department of Entomology Seminar Series

Unless otherwise noted, seminars are held in room 220, Animal Science/ Entomology Bldg. Coffee and doughnuts will be served prior to most seminars at 10:00 a.m. Seminars start at 10:10 a.m. unless otherwise noted.

Date   Speaker   Topic

Tuesday,
Sept. 9, 2008

      Organizational meeting for students

Tuesday,
Sept. 16, 2008

 

Dr. Pat MacKay, Dept. of Entomology,  Invited Speaker

  The Ecological Roles of Insects (with illustrations from the family photo album)

Tuesday,
Sept. 23, 2008

 

Michelle Wetton, Dept. of Entomology

 

Research seminar: Effects of aquaculture organic waste loading on benthic invertebrates

Tuesday,
Sept. 30, 2008

 

Suresh Desai, Dept. of Entomology

 

Literature review seminar: Interactions between honeybee parasites, diseases and their hosts

Tuesday,
Oct. 7, 2008

  Prof. Paul Bullock, Dept of Soil Science, Invited Speaker   Quantifying Drought:  How dry is it, really?

Thursday,
Oct 9, 2008

 

Mora Gregg, Librarian, Agriculture Library, Invited Speaker

 

The many ways to do library searches

Tuesday,
Oct. 14, 2008

 


 

Rehearsals for ESC

Tuesday,
Oct. 21, 2008
 

 

 

Cancelled for ESC meetings, Ottawa

Tuesday,
Oct. 28, 2008

 

Dr. Brent McCallum, Cereal Research Centre-Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada, Invited Speaker

 

Wheat cultivar evolution on the Canadian prairies

Tuesday,
Nov. 4, 2008

 

Dr. Randy Mooi, Curator of Zoology, Manitoba Museum, Invited Speaker

 

What can a coral reef fish systemist tell you about entomology?

Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2008  




Cancelled: Remembrance Day

 

Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2008  

Prof. Neil Holliday, Dept. of Entomology, Invited Speaker

 

Peering through the tall grass: an examination of plant community response to grazing

Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2008  

Sunday Oghiakhe, Dept of Entomology

 

Research seminar: New approaches to the management of the native elm bark beetle, Hylurgopinus rufipes (Coleoptera: Scolytidae) in Manitoba

Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2008   Suresh Desai, Dept of Entomology   Research seminar: Studies on host thermal responses, viruses and disease tolerance in honeybees Apis mellifera L., in relation to Varroa destructor (Anderson and Trueman)
       

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Faculty Seminar Series

Unless otherwise noted, seminars are held in room 220, Animal Science/ Entomology Bldg. Coffee and doughnuts will be served prior to most seminars at 10:00 a.m. Seminars start at 10:10 a.m. unless otherwise noted.

Date   Department & Speaker   Topic

Sept. 17 2008

  Food Science
Susan Arntfield
  Pass the Pulses Please

Oct. 15, 2008

 

Plant Science
Claudio Stasolla

  Regulation of Plant Embryo Development in vitro

Nov. 19, 2008

 

Agribusiness & Ag Economics
Derek Brewin

 

Market Eficiency and the Canola Market in Canada

Jan. 21, 2009

 

Soil Science
Wole Akinremi

 

Managing Phosphorous for Agronomic and Environmental Sustainability

Feb. 11, 2009

  Entomology
Robert Currie
  Colony Collapse in Honeybees: Mysterious Disorder or Death by a Thousand Cuts?

March 18, 2009

 

Biosystems Engineering
Sri Ranjan

 

TBA

April 15, 2009

 

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Faculty of Agricultural & Food Sciences
University of Manitoba - Winnipeg, MB, Canada - R3T 2N2
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