Posts Tagged: drosophila
Time Flies, But How Do Flies Tell Time? Ask Yao Cai
If you attended the 2018 campuswide UC Davis Picnic Day and headed over to see the insects at...
Yao Cai dressed as a fruit fly to play the drums in The Entomology Band at the 2018 UC Davis Picnic Day. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Molecular geneticist Yao Cai (left) presents a program at a 2020 Bohart Museum of Entomology open house. With him is undergraduate student Christopher Ocoa. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
ESA Journal Targets the Spotted-Wing Drosophila
It was a major project, a long time coming, and what an excellent resource for those studying the...
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Olfaction and Taste Symposium: Learn About Honey Bees, Mosquitoes, Butterflies, Fruit Flies and More...
Honey bees, mosquitoes, cabbage butterflies, fruit flies and more... You'll hear about a variety...
The free international symposium, “Insect Olfaction and Taste in 24 Hours Around the Globe,” begins at 9 a.m, Pacific Daylight Time (PDT), Wednesday, Aug. 11.
The honey bee will be one of the insects featured at the international symposium, “Insect Olfaction and Taste in 24 Hours Around the Globe,” (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The symposium will zero in on olfaction/taste research on three species of mosquitoes, including Culex. This is Culex quinquefasciatus. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The cabbage butterfly, Pieris rapae, will share the spotlight at the international symposium, “Insect Olfaction and Taste in 24 Hours Around the Globe." (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Drosophila suzukii, the spotted-wing drosophila, is a pest of raspberries and other fruit. The insect will be discussed at the symposium on "Insect Olfaction and Taste in 24 Hours Around the Globe." (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Green Hall: Fitting Tribute to Two Scientists
It's a fitting tribute to see the UC Davis Life Sciences Building recently renamed the Melvin M....
Photographic illustration shows the Life Science Building's new name as it will appear above the doors. (UC Davis illustration)
Karen Menuz: 'The Molecular Basis of Insect Olfaction'
"Repellent odors are widely used to prevent insect-borne diseases, making it imperative to identify...
This is an image of a fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, an insect that researcher Karen Menuz, who will present a seminar Jan. 8 at UC Davis, studies. She and colleague Pratyajit Mohapatra recently published research on "Molecular Profiling of the Drosophila Antenna Reveals Conserved Genes Underlying Olfaction in Insects." (Photo by Sanjay Acharya, courtesy of Wikipedia)