Grad 10-min Competition: SysEB, Phylogenetics and Behavior

Moderator(s)

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  Melissa Sisson

  Assistant Professor
  Department of Biology
  Middle Georgia State University
  Warner Robins, Georgia
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  Andrea Lucky

  Associate Professor
  Department of Entomology and Nematology
  University of Florida
  Gainesville, Florida

Presentations:

• 10:30 AM – 10:42 AM MST

  A new strepsipteran parasite, Xenos gadagkari sp.nov, in the Indian population of the primitively eusocial wasp, Polistes wattii
  

  Presenting Author: Deepak Nain – Panjab University

  Co-Author: Anjali Rana – Indian Institute of Science Education and Research

  Co-Author: Rhitoban Raychoudhury – Indian Institute of Science Education and Research

  Co-Author: Ruchira Sen – Sri Guru Gobind Singh College
• 10:42 AM – 10:54 AM MST

  Novel large-scale annotation and comparative genomics of Ichneumonoidea (Hymenoptera) reveals insight into the evolution of these hyperdiverse parasitoids
  

  Presenting Author: Rachel Behm – University of Central Florida

  Co-Author: barbra J. Sharanowski – University of Central Florida
• 10:54 AM – 11:06 AM MST

  Phylogenomics of the quadraceps-complex of lice (Psocodea: Phthiraptera) and its bacterial endosymbiont diversity
  

  Presenting Author: Ember Clodfelter – University of Illinois

  Co-Author: Jorge Doña – Universidad de Granada

  Co-Author: Kim O. Walden – University of Illinois

  Co-Author: Kevin P. Johnson – Illinois Natural History Survey
• 11:06 AM – 11:18 AM MST

  Reduction in interaction efficiency disrupts collective thermoregulatory behavior in honeybees
  

  Presenting Author: Justine Bich Lien Nguyen – Marquette University

  Co-Author: Chelsea N. Cook – Marquette University
• 11:18 AM – 11:30 AM MST

  Social networks and social environment in a facultatively social bee
  

  Presenting Author: Jesse Leon Huisken – Rehan Lab

  Co-Author: Jesse Leon Huisken – Rehan Lab

  Co-Author: Sandra Rehan (she/her/hers) – York University