Department of Entomology and Wildlife Ecology University of Delaware Fall 2013 Seminar Series Monday 11:15 a.m. – 12:05 p.m. Room 009 Townsend Hall *Refreshments at 11:00 a.m.*

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September 9 Introduction and Safety Training

September 16 Coffee and Donut Hour

September 23 Graduate Student Lunch

September 30 Will Macaluso – M.S. Candidate. “The Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Parent-reared versus Non-parent-reared Pen-raised Northern Bobwhites for Reintroduction on Long Island, New York”

October 7 No seminar. The Wildlife Society Meeting.

October 14 Kevin Ringelman – UD Postdoc. “Adaptive nest clustering and density-dependent nest survival in California dabbling ducks”

October 21 Larry Klotz – Professor, SUNY – Cortland. “Impacts of the North American beaver on stream ecosystems” October 23, 4:00pm THE AMERICAN ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY’S OCTOBER 2013 MEETING Allen Lab Conference Room 101

October 28 Jonathan Cohen – Assistant Professor, Dept. of Marine Biosciences, University of Delaware

November 4 Geoffrey Attardo – Research Scientist in Epidemiology, Yale School of Medicine. “Got milk? The story of lactation in the tsetse fly”

November 11 No Seminar. Entomological Society of America Meeting.

November 18 Caroline Farrior – Postdoctoral Research Associate, Princeton Environmental Institute. “Competitive games among plants and their implications for the global carbon cycle”

November 25 Holly Johnson – Ph.D. Candidate. “Fitness costs associated with Bt corn for E and Z pheromone strains of the European corn borer”

December 2 Sara Kuebbing and Josh Galperin – Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy. “Invasive species: biological and political controversies”

December 9 T.B.A.