Grad 10-min Competition: SysEB, Biodiversity and Conservation

Moderator(s)

• 

  Geoffrey Morse

  Associate Professor
  Biology
  University of San Diego
  San Diego, California
• IE

  Isabella Errigo

  PhD Student
  Department of Natural Resources and the Environment
  Cornell University
  Ithaca, New York

Presentations:

• 10:30 AM – 10:42 AM MST

  Assessing the habitat requirements and body condition of imperiled bumble bee species in the upper Midwest
  

  Presenting Author: Erika J. Ibarra-Garibay – Iowa State University

  Co-Author: Kelsey Shepherd – Iowa State University

  Co-Author: Stephanie Paris – Iowa State University

  Co-Author: Anna Tucker – U.S. Geological Survey/Iowa State University

  Co-Author: Amy Toth – Iowa State University
• 10:42 AM – 10:54 AM MST

  Creating conservation genomics resources for an imperiled butterfly
  

  Presenting Author: Taylor Pierson (she/her/hers) – University of Florida

  Co-Author: Ivone de Bem Oliveira, Ph.D. (she/her/hers) – University of Florida

  Co-Author: Leonardo C. J Corvalan, MSc – University of Florida

  Co-Author: Jaret C. Daniels, Ph.D. – University of Florida
• 10:54 AM – 11:06 AM MST

  Exploring adaptive radiation through a phylogenetic revision of Hawaii’s remarkable endemic Trupanea (Diptera: Tephritidae)
  

  Presenting Author: Spencer Len Pote (he/him/his) – University of Hawaii

  Co-Author: Daniel Rubinoff – University of Hawaii
• 11:06 AM – 11:18 AM MST

  Exploring specificity in palm flower weevils (Curculionidae) using species delimitation methods
  

  Presenting Author: Abigail E. Magland – University of Chicago

  Co-Author: Diego Souza – Field Museum

  Co-Author: Brian Farrell – Harvard University

  Co-Author: Roberta Valente – Federal University of Paraná

  Co-Author: Luis Alberto Nuñez-Avellaneda – Universidad De Los Llanos

  Co-Author: Bruno A S de Medeiros, Ph.D. – Field Museum
• 11:18 AM – 11:30 AM MST

  Investigating leafhopper abundance and diversity in Eastern Canada: Impact of climate and landscape composition
  

  Presenting Author: Jordanne Jacques (she/her/hers) – Université Laval

  Co-Author: Anne-Sophie Brochu – Université Laval

  Co-Author: Frédéric McCune – Université Laval

  Co-Author: Valérie Fournier – Université Laval

  Co-Author: Edel Perez-Lopez – Université Laval
• 11:30 AM – 11:42 AM MST

  New high-quality genome assembly and annotation for the imperiled Loammi skipper butterfly (Atrytonopsis loammi)
  

  Presenting Author: Rachel L. Walsh, MSc (she/her/hers) – Florida Museum of Natural History

  Co-Author: Rebekah Keating Godfrey, Ph.D. – Florida International University

  Co-Author: Yi-Ming Weng, Ph.D. – Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology

  Co-Author: Jaret C. Daniels, Ph.D. – University of Florida

  Co-Author: Akito Y. Kawahara, Ph.D. – Florida Museum of Natural History
• 11:42 AM – 11:54 AM MST

  Revealing the diversity of eukaryotic termite symbionts
  

  Presenting Author: Kali Layne Swichtenberg (she/her/hers) – Arizona State University