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	Julia Boyle	Colour plasticity and habitat choice in an ambush bug	University of Toronto
​December 21, 1pm	Tamara Spasojevic	On a journey with Darwin wasps (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae):  remarkable fossils, Jurassic dates and wasps’ webs	NMNH
January 13, 11am	Rebecca Clement	The Australian termite diversity anomaly: What's missing in Australian rainforests?	The George Washington University
January 21, 3pm	Tierney Bougie	Introgressive hybridization confounds evolutionary relationships in a group of paradise spiders (Salticidae: Habronattus americanus)	San Diego State University
February 3, 11am	Dave Cheung	Bugdex: Celebrating insects and education with interactive design	DKB Digital Designs
February (3rd week)	Kelly Murray-Stoker	Understanding regional influences on caddisfly communities	University of Toronto
March 3, 2pm	Rodrigo Monjaraz Ruedas	Short-Range endemics as a tool for understanding introduced and parthenogenetic species: A case with Short-tailed Whipscorpions	San Diego State University
March 17, 2pm	Miles Zhang	Revisiting Alfred Kinsey’s 1st love: gall wasp taxonomy and systematics in genomic era	​NMNH
March 31, 2pm	​Guilherme Azevedo	The Radiation of Two-Clawed Spiders Inferred with Molecular and Morphological Data	​San Diego State University
April	Keng-Lou James Hung	Achieving more realistic assessments of pollination service delivery by integrating pollinator movement, ecological context, and pollen carryover	University of Toronto
April 28, 2pm	Siddharth Kulkarni	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
May 12, 1pm	Matt Van Dam	How the Easter Egg Weevils Got Their Spots: Phylogenomics reveals Müllerian Mimicry in Pachyrhynchus (Coleoptera, Curculionidae)	California Academy of Sciences
May 26, 11am	Genevieve Theron	Untangling the southern African long-tongued flies (Nemestrinidae): diversity, systematics and evolution	University of KwaZulu Natal