Undergrad 10-min Competition: SysEB, General 3

Moderator(s)

• 

  Yelena Pacheco (she/her/hers)

  Postdoctoral fellow
  USDA-ARS
  Arlington, Virginia
• 

  Heath Ogden

  Chair, Professor
  Biology
  Utah Valley University
  Orem, Utah

Presentations:

• 10:30 AM – 10:42 AM MST

  A phylogenetic analysis of genome size evolution and social structure in Hymenoptera
  

  Presenting Author: Olivia Frary – Utah Valley University

  Co-Author: Carl Hjelmen (he/him/his) – Utah Valley University
• 10:54 AM – 11:06 AM MST

  Counting chromosomes: Exploring evolutionary insights from Drosophila karyotypes
  

  Presenting Author: Audrey Elizabeth French (she/her/hers) – Utah Valley University
• 11:06 AM – 11:18 AM MST

  Investigating correlation between beetle diversity and recurring patterns of genome repeat architecture
  

  Presenting Author: Patrick Steven Wynn – Brigham Young University

  Co-Author: Gage Boman – Brigham Young University

  Co-Author: John Sproul (he/him/his) – Brigham Young University
• 11:18 AM – 11:30 AM MST

  Investigating mechanisms of rDNA-driven rapid genome evolution using long-read assemblies
  

  Presenting Author: Rachel Seamons – Brigham Young University

  Co-Author: John Sproul (he/him/his) – Brigham Young University

  Co-Author: Paul Bryan Frandsen – Brigham Young University

  Co-Author: Madeline Tanner – Brigham Young University
• 11:30 AM – 11:42 AM MST

  Microarachnids enlightening macro-patterns: New advances on the evolution and biogeography of New World schizomids
  

  Presenting Author: Grant Wass – Palomar College

  Co-Author: Rodrigo Monjaraz-Ruedas – San Diego State University Biodiversity Museum

  Co-Author: Marshal Hedin – San Diego State University Biodiversity Museum
• 11:42 AM – 11:54 AM MST

  Missing pieces of the puzzle: Using iNaturalist and PBI reveals diversity knowledge gaps in California Orthotylinae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae)
  

  Presenting Author: Caitlyn Nicole Castillo Campbell (she/her/hers) – University of California

  Co-Author: Christiane Weirauch – University of California
• 11:54 AM – 12:06 PM MST

  Turning over a new leaf: A survey of neotropical parasitoid Hymenoptera in leaf litter
  

  Presenting Author: Robin P. Marquez (he/him/his) – University of Central Florida

  Co-Author: Diler Haji – University of Connecticut

  Co-Author: Elijah Talamas – Florida State Collection of Arthropods

  Co-Author: Michael W. Gates (he/him/his) – USDA-ARS

  Co-Author: Robert Kula – USDA-ARS

  Co-Author: Ted R. Schultz – Smithsonian Institution

  Co-Author: Matthew Buffington – USDA-ARS

  Co-Author: Jeffrey Sosa-Calvo – Smithsonian Institution

  Co-Author: Robert L. Kresslein – USDA-ARS