Invited departmental seminars
Invited departmental seminars
May 2022 Institute of Environmental Sciences of the Hebrew University, Rehovot campus, Israel. “Species interactions that do and don’t matter for population dynamics in a fragmented landscape”
May 2022 Israeli Institute for Advanced Studies, Fellows Forum, Hebrew University, Jerusalem. “Mapping Butterflies”
Feb. 2022 Insect Symbiosis Ecology and Evolution group, Faculty of Biological & Environmental Sciences University of Helsinki, Finland. “Sirex woodwasps. their fungal symbionts and parasitic nematodes”
July 2019 Centre for Ecological Reseach, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.”Dynamics of interacting species in a shared landscape”
Oct. 2017 Osaka Prefecture University, Japan. “The puzzle of partial resource use by a parasitoid wasp”
May 2015 Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences, Stockholm University. “The puzzle of partial resource use by a parasitoid wasp”
October 2014 Deptartment of Entomology, Cornell University. “The puzzle of partial resource use by a parasitoid wasp”
Jan. 2011 Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University
Nov. 2010 Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Turku University, FI
March 2010 Dept. of Entomology, Geneva Experiment Station, Cornell University. “Connecting multitrophic level interactions to insect population dynamics.”
March 2010 Dept. of Entomology, Texas A & M. “Spatial population dynamics of parasitoid wasps.”
Oct. 09 Dept. of Biology, Northern Arizona University. “Parasitoid population dynamics at a landscape scale: population size and sex ratio.”
Jan. 09 Centre for Ecological Reseach, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. Two seminars: “Butterfly-parastoid metacommunity ecology” & “A parasitoid wasp uses landmarks while monitoring potential resources.”
Dec. 07 Department of Botany, Stockholm University, Sweden
April 05 Department of Integrative Biology, University of Texas, Austin “Host specialization by Cotesia parastoids of checkerspot butterflies.”
Jan. 05 Centre for Terrestrial Ecology, Heteren, The Netherlands “Host specialization by Cotesia parastoids of checkerspot butterflies.”
Feb. 04 Ecology seminar series at Pennsylvania State University “Dispersal and habitat structure in communities of butterflies, their host plants and parasitoids.”
Nov. 03 Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology seminar series at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. “Spatial population dynamics in insect communities: butterflies and their host plants and parasitoids.”
March 03 Biology Department at Leiden University, Holland “A host and two parasitoids that each experience the same habitat differently.”
Feb. 02 Department of Entomology seminar series at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. “Uniform parasitism by a wasp with an extremely short opportunity for parasitism: behavior within and among host populations.”
April 01 Centre for Terrestrial Ecology, Heteren, The Netherlands “Large-scale population dynamics and multitrophic level interactions of a parasitoid wasp.”
Sept. 00 Department of Entomology, Cornell University, Geneva, New York. “Population dynamics of a herbivore and its parasitoids in a fragmented landscape.”
Jan. 99 Division of Organismal Biology and Ecology seminar series, University of California at Santa Cruz. “Host diet affects extinctions and colonizations in a parasitoid metapopulation.”
Oct. 99 Department of Biology, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, Colorado. “Population dynamics of a parasitoid wasp: from individual to metapopulation.”
Feb. 98 Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. “Parasitoid wasp foraging behavior: variation caused by genetics and by the environment.”
Feb. 98 The Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore, India. “The influence of habitat on the metapopulation dynamics of a parasitoid wasp and its host, the Glanville Fritillary butterfly.”
Dec. 97 Department of Ecology and Systematics seminar series, University of Helsinki, Finland. “Natural selection on foraging behavior and genetic differentiation between populations of a parasitoid wasp.”
Nov.96 Department of Entomology seminar series at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. “Parasitoid wasps from wild and cultivated host plant habitats: natural selection on foraging behavior and genetic differentiation between populations.”