Entomology & Nematology News

UC Davis undergraduate entomology major Rachel Shey, a research assistant in the laboratory of UC Davis Distinguished Professor Bruce Hammock, swept two major awards at the 23rd annual R. Bryan Miller Symposium, sponsored by the Department of Chemistry.

Bob stole the show. Picture this: UC Davis forensic entomologist Robert Bob Kimsey is portraying Dr. Death inside Briggs Hall during the 109th annual UC Davis Picnic Day, but just outside the building, another Bob is grabbing the spotlight.

Doctoral candidate Zachary Griebenow will present his exit seminar at 4:10 p.m., Wednesday, April 19 in 122 Briggs Hall on "Systematic Revision of the Ant Subfamily Leptanillinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), Reciprocally Illuminated by Phylogenomics and Morphology.

UC Davis Picnic Day--here we come, ready or not! "We're ready," say forensic entomologist and faculty member Robert "Bob" Kimsey and doctoral student Grace Horne of the lab of urban landscape entomologist Emily Meineke.

Iris Quayle acknowledged she was nervous at first. But when she began delivering her first-ever presentation at a scientific conference, I found it quite fun to present my work and see people's excitement.