Schedule
Bi-weekly seminar series of the Entomology Department, National Museum of Natural History. For more information, please contact Gustavo de Miranda (deMirandaG [at] si.edu) or Hannah Wood (WoodH [at] si.edu).
Winter 2020 - Spring 2021
Date / time (EST) |
Speaker |
Title |
Affiliation |
December 11, 11am |
University of Toronto |
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December 21, 1pm |
On a journey with Darwin wasps (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae): remarkable fossils, Jurassic dates and wasps’ webs |
NMNH |
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January 13, 11am |
The Australian termite diversity anomaly: What's missing in Australian rainforests? |
The George Washington University |
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January 21, 3pm |
Introgressive hybridization confounds evolutionary relationships in a group of paradise spiders (Salticidae: Habronattus americanus) |
San Diego State University |
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February 3, 11am |
DKB Digital Designs |
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February (3rd week) |
Understanding regional influences on caddisfly communities |
University of Toronto |
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March 3, 2pm |
Short-Range endemics as a tool for understanding introduced and parthenogenetic species: A case with Short-tailed Whipscorpions |
San Diego State University |
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March 17, 2pm |
Revisiting Alfred Kinsey’s 1st love: gall wasp taxonomy and systematics in genomic era |
NMNH |
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March 31, 2pm |
The Radiation of Two-Clawed Spiders Inferred with Molecular and Morphological Data |
San Diego State University |
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April |
Achieving more realistic assessments of pollination service delivery by integrating pollinator movement, ecological context, and pollen carryover |
University of Toronto |
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April 28, 2pm |
Big data, small spiders - Phylogenomics illuminate the loss of orb webs, tracheal systems and the biogeographic history of the world’s smallest orbweaving spiders |
The George Washington University |
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May 12, 1pm |
How the Easter Egg Weevils Got Their Spots: Phylogenomics reveals Müllerian Mimicry in Pachyrhynchus (Coleoptera, Curculionidae) |
California Academy of Sciences |
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May 26, 11am |
Untangling the southern African long-tongued flies (Nemestrinidae): diversity, systematics and evolution |
University of KwaZulu Natal |