Backyard Orchard News
Toward Sustainable Bioenergy Landscapes
His talk should draw a good crowd. Claudio Gratton, associate professor in the Department of...
How do beneficial insects such as lady beetles utilize the landscape? Claudio Gratton will explain how in his April 10 lecture. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Global Burden of Dengue
Don't ever underestimate the threat of dengue. The mosquito-borne viral disease known as...
Professor Thomas Scott, a worldwide expert on dengue, is pictured in Kenya.
Global dengue risk. Areas in red indicate high risk for dengue occurrence while green areas indicate low risk. (Map courtesy of Jane Messina)
The Scholar and the Walnut Twig Beetle
Most people have never seen the walnut twig beetle, a tiny insect that spreads a fungal pathogen...
Kristina Tatiossian and the ceramic mosaic of a walnut twig beetle. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The poster that Kristina Tatiossian created. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Targeting Insect-Host Plant Research
It's exciting to see a promising career unfold. We first met UC Davis graduate student Alex Van...
Alex Van Dam, photographed next to a giant cactus.
Exciting News from the Hammock Lab
We applaud the groundbreaking news this week from the Bruce Hammock laboratory at the...
UC Davis postdoctoral researcher Zuodong Zhang. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)