Entomology & Nematology News

Prominent integrated pest management (IPM) entomologist Charles "Charlie" Geddes Summers of Clinton, Utah, whose University of California career in crop pest management spanned 42 years, died Aug. 12, 2021 at age 79 of acute respiratory failure at a hospital in Layton, Utah. Dr.

Nematologist and plant pathologist Shahid Siddique, assistant professor, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology and coordinator of the department's seminars for the 2021-22 academic year, has announced the list of fall quarter seminars. The fall quarter seminars begin Sept.

Two post-baccalaureate women seeking academic careers in science are gaining research experience in Jason Bond's laboratory, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, through a unique National Science Foundation (NSF) program aimed at countering some of the adverse academic effects of the CO...

Evolutionary biologist Jessica Gillung, who received her doctorate in entomology from UC Davis in 2018 and is now on the faculty of McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, is the newly announced recipient of the Entomological Society of America's International Branch Early Career and Leadership...

UC Davis entomologist Lynn Kimsey is making waves for her newly published research on intertidal invertebrates in the San Francisco Baya high school science project from 50 years ago.