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Lasering in on the UC Davis LASER Event on April 14

UC Berkeley biologist Ciera Martinez studies fruit flies but she will be speaking on

She researches fruit flies but she'll be discussing "The Concealed Beauty of Plant...

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Posted on Friday, April 1, 2016 at 5:49 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Anna Davidson (2), Cierra Martinez (1), Ian Pollock (1), LASER event (1), Sarah Strand (1), UC Davis (116)

Congratulations, Bruce Hammock! McGiff Memorial Award

Bruce Hammock (center) with colleagues Dipak Panigrahy (left) of Harvard Medical School and Guodong Zhang of the University of Massachusetts. This photo was taken at the International Winder Eicosanoid (WEC) Conference in Baltimore, where Hammock received the first-ever John C. McGiff Award.

What an honor! And so deserving. He's an entomologist, trained to find ways to control insect...

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Posted on Tuesday, March 22, 2016 at 5:38 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Bruce Hammock (5), Dipak Panigraphy (1), entomology (2), Guodong Zhang (1), International Winder Eicosanoid Conference (1), John McGif (1), UC Davis (116)

So You Want to Become a Master Beekeeper...

Extension apiculturist Elina Niño of UC Davis greets a beekeeping class before donning a veil and smoking the hive. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

So you want to become a Master Beekeeper. You don't want to just keep bees, you want to devote...

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Posted on Monday, March 7, 2016 at 4:29 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Apis mellifera (1), Elina Nino (1), honey bees (15), Master Beekeeper (1), Mea McNeil (1), public service (1), teaching (1), UC Davis (116)

Are Culex Mosquitoes Potential Vectors of the Zika Virus?

UC Davis chemical ecologist and mosquito researcher Walter Leal (front), confers with Constancia Ayres (far right, in black) and Rosângela Barbosa (center), faculty members in the Department of Entomology, FIOCRUZ-Recife. Both are Leal colloborators.

Scientists throughout the world targeted the Zika virus, transmitted by the yellow fever mosquito,...

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Posted on Wednesday, March 2, 2016 at 3:11 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Aedes aegypti (5), Constancia Ayres (2), culex (1), Rosângela Barbosa (1), UC Davis (116), Walter Leal (6), zika virus (4)

Tribute to Medical Entomologist Bill Reisen

Medical entomologist William Reisen in his office. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

He lives and breathes mosquitoes. He's a medical entomologist through and through. So when UC...

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Posted on Monday, February 22, 2016 at 6:13 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: American Mosquito Control Association (1), Center for Vectornborne Diseases (1), medical entomologist (1), UC Davis (116), William Reisen (1)

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