Grad 10-min Competition: SysEB, Biogeography

Moderator(s)

• SR

  Sayde Ridling

  USDA Forest Service - Forest Health Protection
  Juneau, Alaska
• SW

  Samuel Ward (he/him/his)

  Assistant Professor of Forest Entomology
  Department of Entomology
  The Ohio State University
  Columbus, Ohio

Presentations:

• 8:00 AM – 8:12 AM MST

  A phylogeographic study of the Kentucky endemic cave beetle, Neaphaenops tellkampfii Erichson (1844)
  

  Presenting Author: Mahamad Sayab Miya – Western Kentucky University

  Co-Author: Keith Philips – Western Kentucky University
• 8:12 AM – 8:24 AM MST

  Elucidating the geographic origins of a Wasmannia parasitoid wasp, Orasema minutissima (Chalcidoidea: Eucharitidae), in Hawai'i
  

  Presenting Author: Ashley Y. Bui – University of California

  Co-Author: John Heraty – University of California
• 8:24 AM – 8:36 AM MST

  Evolutionary insights: enhancing pest distribution forecasts in a changing climate
  

  Presenting Author: Fletcher A. E. Robbins – University of Wisconsin

  Co-Author: Emily Bick, BCE-Intern – University of Wisconsin

  Co-Author: Mike Howe – USDA-ARS
• 8:36 AM – 8:48 AM MST

  Exploring the evolution of spider beetles within the lomas of coastal Peru
  

  Presenting Author: Marlena Askren – Western Kentucky University

  Co-Author: Keith Philips – Western Kentucky University
• 8:48 AM – 9:00 AM MST

  Landscape genomics of Bombus flavifrons, a widespread color-polymorphic North American bumblebee
  

  Presenting Author: Brandon Austin Meadows – University of Alabama

  Co-Author: Heather M. Hines – The Pennsylvania State University

  Co-Author: Jonathan Berenguer Uhuad Koch – USDA-ARS

  Co-Author: Jeff Lozier (he/him/his) – University of Alabama
• 9:00 AM – 9:12 AM MST

  Origin and diversification of Chlorocyphidae (Odonata: Zygoptera)
  

  Presenting Author: Judicael Fomekong-Lontchi – Brigham Young University

  Co-Author: Vincent Kalkman – Naturalis Biodiversity Center

  Co-Author: Seth M. Bybee – Brigham Young University
• 9:12 AM – 9:24 AM MST

  Systematics and biogeography of the widespread dragonfly genus Orthetrum (Odonata: Anisoptera: Libellulidae)
  

  Presenting Author: Violet Magoma Onsongo, IV – American Museum of Natural History
• 9:24 AM – 9:36 AM MST

  The Usazoros hubbardi Caudell (Insecta: Zoraptera) microbiota: Characterizing the bacterial and fungal associates of a rare and cryptic insect
  

  Presenting Author: Lily Margeson (they/them/theirs) – Texas A&M University

  Co-Author: Daniel Malagon – Clemson University

  Co-Author: Benjamin Camper – Clemson University

  Co-Author: Sharon Bewick – Clemson University
• 9:36 AM – 9:48 AM MST

  The evolutionary history of the rainbow ants
  

  Presenting Author: Chloe Maddison Jelley – Cornell University

  Co-Author: Corrie S. Moreau – Cornell University
• 9:48 AM – 10:00 AM MST

  Using UCEs to resolve phylogenetic relationships in the Hydrophilid subfamily Enochrinae
  

  Presenting Author: Peter Willadsen – University of Kansas

  Co-Author: Andrew E. Short – University of Florida

  Co-Author: Rob Moyle – University of Kansas