Some 220 colleagues, collaborators and close friends honored the life and legacy of a legend, UC Davis Distinguished Professor Bruce Hammock (1947-2026), at a recent memorial in California Hall, UC Davis. 

Dozens of others,  hailing from China, Brazil, Poland, Spain, Australia, Singapore, Japan, Germany, Ireland, Egypt, Rwanda, Canada, Italy, and France, as well as the United States, watched the live broadcast. 

Postdoctoral scholar Younghwan Kwak of the lab of Professor Gordon Bennett University of California, Merced, will speak on "Evolution and Stability of Interdependence in Insect–Microbe Symbioses" at the Oct 21st seminar hosted by the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology.

Her seminar begins at 12:10 in 122 Briggs Hall. It also will be remote. The Zoom link: https://ucdavis.zoom.us/j/95882849672

Scientists, colleagues, collaborators and former students from throughout the world will honor the "Life and Legacy of Bruce Hammock" at a memorial set for 1 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 10 in California Hall, UC Davis campus.

UC Davis Chancellor Gary May will deliver the opening remarks, and Ashley Stokes, dean of the UC Davis College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, will present  "a dean's reflections."

Postdoctoral fellow Rachel Thayer of the lab of UC Davis Distinguished Professor David Begun, Department of Evolution and Ecology, will present the next UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology seminar.

The late UC Davis Distinguished Professor Bruce Hammock would have been proud.

His lifetime research targeting and alleviating chronic pain in a wide range of diseases, continues to advance. 

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UC Davis alumna Stephanie Dole, perhaps better known as  "Dr. Beetlelady," returned to UC Davis to table at the  Bohart Museum of Entomology open house.

Registration is underway for an all-day UC Davis class for those who want to learn "the fascinating world of beeswax, from how honey bees produce it to how beekeepers can collect, process, and transform it into beautiful and useful products."

Mackenzie Yedlin, a doctoral candidate, The Rockefeller University, will speak on "Choreographing Reproduction: Redefining Sex Steroid Hormone Mechanisms in Aedes aegypti Mosquitoes" at the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology seminar on Wednesday, Oct. 7.

She will speak at 12:10 p.m. in 122 Briggs Hall. Her seminar also will be on Zoom. The link: https://ucdavis.zoom.us/j/95882849672.

The E.L. Niño Bee Lab,  UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, has launched a UC Davis Crowdfund effort to fund  "The Great Native Bee Count: Mapping California’s Bee and Plant Connections."