EPPN Seminar Schedule
Spring 2025
Seminars take place on Mondays at 3 p.m. Pacific Time in Ag. Sci. 62 or IRIC 305. Seminar can also be joined by Zoom at https://uidaho.zoom.us/j/87523023016.
- Feb. 10 (IRIC 305) — Climate-smart agriculture: Impacts on pests and beneficial insects — Video
Subodh Adhikari, EPPN Research Assistant Professor - Feb. 24 (IRIC 305) — Insect biodiversity and pest management in canola crops of the Pacific Northwest — Video
Gifty Bempong, EPPN M.S. Student - March 3 (IRIC 305) — Effects of climate-smart agriculture on soil arthropod communities — Video
Rakshya Aryal, EPPN M.S. Student - March 10 — No seminar, Spring Break
- March 17 — No seminar
- March 24 (IRIC 305) — Assessing arthropod communities in dry bean fields of southern Idaho and factors influencing abundance and diversity — Video
Henry Trujillo, EPPN M.S. Student - March 31 (IRIC 305) — Biogeographic origins of the Australian tarantulas and spider genomics — Video
Ethan Briggs, Postdoc, University of Idaho and The University of Queensland
- April 7 (IRIC 305) — Barley yellow dwarf disease in integrated production systems: the impact of landscape structure and invasive aphids — Video
Shirin Parizad, Ph.D. Student, Virginia Tech - April 14 (Ag. Sci. 62) — The Type 2 immune response and parasite transmission in malaria — Video
Nora Cespedes, EPPN Research Assistant Professor - April 21 (Ag. Sci. 62) — Keystone bison and keystone beetles: What happened to dung beetles after the near extinction of America’s native bison? — Video
Mary Jameson,** Research Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Wichita State University - April 28 (Ag. Sci. 62) — 40 years of virus ecology
Marilyn Roossinck,* Professor Emeritus, Department of Plant Pathology and Environmental Microbiology, Penn State University
* Plant Pathology Student Choice Speaker
** Entomology Student Choice Speaker