Entomology and Plant Pathology Seminar to Feature Amelia Lindsey

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Amelia Lindsey, assistant professor at the University of Minnesota.

The Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology will host Amelia Lindsey for a virtual seminar in the Plant Science Building, room 009, as part of the Spring 2023 Seminar Series. The seminar is scheduled to take place from 3:30-5 p.m. Tuesday, March 7. A social period will precede the seminar at 3:15 p.m., with light snacks and drinks just outside the lecture hall.

Zoom link

    Meeting ID: 816 3061 3526

    Passcode: email enpl@uark.edu

Title: "Microbe-Mediated Losses of Sex in Beneficial Insects"

Speaker: Amelia Lindsey, assistant professor, University of Minnesota

Lindsey is an assistant professor at the University of Minnesota. Her lab uses functional genomics to understand reproductive parasitism in insects, with a major focus on the symbiont Wolbachia and parasitoid wasps. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California Riverside and completed a postdoc at Indiana University prior to starting in the Entomology Department at UMN in 2020.

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