When Does Personality Matter?

When does personality matter?

Jonathan Pruitt, a postdoctoral fellow with the Center for Population Biology, UC Davis Department of Evolution and Ecology, will speak on “From Individuals to Populations to Communities: When Does Personality Matter?” at the next UC Davis Department of Entomology seminar, set for Wednesday, Jan. 19.

His talk, open to the pubic, is from 12:10 to 1 p.m. in 1022 Life Sciences Addition (LSA), corner of Hutchison Drive and Kleiber Hall Drive. It will be webcast live and then archived on the UC Davis Department of Entomology website. Graduate student Meredith Cenzer of the Louie Yang lab will host the talk.

This is the third in a series of seminars for the winter quarter planned by graduate student Ian Pearse of the Rick Karban lab. Graduate students host the lectures, which take place every Wednesday noon in 1022 LSA through March 9.

If you missed the first two lectures, not to worry. They're archived here.

Rob Dunn, assistant professor, Department of Biology North Carolina State University, launched the series with a talk on “Using Collaborative Approaches to See the Geography and Future of Life: Lessons From Ants.”

Amanda Hodson, postdoctoral scholar in the UC Davis Department of Land, Air and Water Resources, spoke this week on "Ecological Influence of the Entomopathogenic Nematode, Steinernema carpocapsae, on Soil Arthropods in Pistachio Orchards."