Essig Museum News
Keep up-to-date with the latest research, education, and events of the Essig Museum of Entomology, UC Berkeley's terrestrial arthropod collection (insects, spiders, scorpions, and their kin). Member of the Berkeley Natural History Museums.
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CalDay - Insects from around the world
Join the Essig Museum and Berkeley Natural History Museums in celebrating CalDay, an open house all across the UC Berkeley campus. This year's event features Deep Look with KQED videos of Bioscience at Cal, lectures, a panel discussion to "Expand Her Potential in Science", as well as tours in English, Spanish, Chinese (Mandarin), and Russian.
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Digital Data in Biodiversity
The Berkeley Natural History Museums, in collaboration with iDigBio, are hosting a conference on Digital Data in Biodiversity Research 4-6 June 2018. Lectures and workshops will focus on the data we can glean from natural history collections and how it is used to address a broad array of research topics. Registration ends on April 30.
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Jerry Powell honored at LepSoc
On 30 July 2017 the Lepidopterist Society held a special symposium to honor Dr. Jerry Powell. Past students and collaborators roasted and thanked Jerry for his contributions to arthropod research, particularly in Lepidoptera. His over 240 publications include Moths of Western North America, (A Field Guide To) California Insects, and many peer-reviewed publications. He has described 227 new species and contributed hundreds of thousands of specimens to the Essig Museum.
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Cockroach inspired robots
Essig Museum Faculty Curator Dr. Robert Full studies arthropods as models for understanding biomechanics in robot design and prosthetics. Recently Full's Poly-Pedal Lab was featured in the UC Berkeley News for their work on how cockroaches handle unexpected obstacles in their path.
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Follow us on Instagram
We are now on Instagram at essig_museum
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Essig Brunch Seminar Series
Fridays 10:10 - 11:00 am, 1101 Valley Life Science Building (UCMP "fish bowl")
A weekly seminar series run by the Entomology Students Organization featuring local and visiting researchers presenting a wide range of entomology topics. Open to the public.
Upcoming talks: (check the Essig Burnch website for updates)
Apr. 20: Dr. Robert Dudley (UC Berkeley, Professor and Chair of Integrative Biology)
"Gliding ants, aerial arthropods, a flapping robot, and the origins of animal flight"
Apr. 27: Susan Kennedy (UC Berkeley, PhD candidate, Gillespie lab)
"Trophic niche differentiation within the adaptive radiation of Hawaiian Tetragnatha spiders"
May 4: Undergraduate Research Symposium
Highlights from undergraduate research projects and theses
Going to be in town and want to give a talk: email us at calentomology@berkeley.edu
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Donate to the Essig Museum
If you have a specimen collection you would like to donate to the Essig Museum, please contact us at essig.museum@gmail.com. Or make a financial contribution at our Give To Cal site.
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