EPPN Seminars Schedule
Seminars are held 3 p.m. Pacific Time | 4 p.m. Mountain Time on Monday's in Ag Science, Room 104 or via Zoom https://uidaho.zoom.us/j/87523023016
Aug. 30, 2021
- Control of Globodera pallida by pyramiding Sinapis alba seed meal extract or 4-hydroxybenzyl alcohol with biofumigant or trap crop — Video
Prativa Chhetri
Sept. 6 — No seminar — University closed
Sept. 13
- Trap crops and crop rotation for Eradication of Globodera pallida, the Pale cyst nematode in Idaho — Video
Paige Hickman
Sept. 20
- Implementing and optimizing crop oils for Potato virus Y management in the Pacific Northwest: a study in virus biology and aphid vector behavior — Video
Kelie Yoho
Sept. 27
- Effects of insect opportunists on a four-level trophobiotic system involving nectar-producing galls of the cynipid wasp Disholcaspis quercusmamma — Video
Stephanie Eskew
Oct. 4
- Wireworm (Coleoptera: Elateridae) ecology and management in conventional and organic production systems in Idaho — Video
Atoosa Nikoukar
Oct. 11
- Abundance of two unevenly managed root-boring biological control agents for spotted knapweed in Idaho rangeland — Video
Samikshya Aryal
Oct. 18
- Understanding the diversity and evolution of the tarantula genus Aphonopelma across the Madrean Pine-Oak Woodlands Hotspot — Video
Karina Silvestre-Bringas
Oct. 25
- Chemical ecology of plant defense and multi-trophic interactions: bad bugs, pungent parasites and toxic travelers
Jared Ali, Entomology, Pennsylvania State University
Nov. 1 — No seminar, ESA meeting
Nov. 8 — Ag Science, Room 62
- An applied nematologist’s perspective of utilizing genomic tools to address plant-parasitic nematode issues in specialty crops
Inga Zasada, Plant Pathologist, USDA-ARS, Corvallis, Oregon
Nov. 15
- Enhancing the use of entomopathogenic Nematodes in microbial control programs
David Shapiro-Ilan, Entomologist and Nematologist, USDA-ARS, Byron, Georgia
Nov. 22 — No seminar — University closed
Nov. 29
- Role of host and non-host plant cues in the host recognition and environmental safety assessments of the weevil Mogulones crucifer, a biocontrol agent of the invasive plant Cynoglossum officinale
Karuna Nepal
Dec. 6
- Phylogenomics and biogeography of an ancient lineage of mygalomorph spider
Erik Ciaccio