Grad 10-min Competition: P-IE, Invasive Species

Moderator(s)

• 

  Therese Poland (she/her/hers)

  Research Entomologist
  Northern Research Station
  USDA-Forest Service
  East Lansing, Michigan
• TT

  Telmah Telmadarrehei, Ph.D.

  Post-doctoral Associate
  University of Florida
  Fort Pierce, Florida

Presentations:

• 8:00 AM – 8:12 AM MST

  Developing novel remote sensing techniques to accurately detect the impact of biological control on water hyacinth, Pontederia crassipes Mart
  

  Presenting Author: Usman Mohammed – University of Florida

  Co-Author: Carey Minteer – University of Florida

  Co-Author: Aditya Singh – University of Florida

  Co-Author: Stephen Lantin – University of Florida
• 8:12 AM – 8:24 AM MST

  Evaluating the use of predatory plant bugs (Hemiptera: Miridae) as biological control against the invasive South American tomato leafminer (Tuta absoluta) in California tomato fields
  

  Presenting Author: Briley F. Mullin (she/her/hers) – University of California Davis

  Co-Author: Benjamin W. Lee – University of California

  Co-Author: Amy L. Roda – USDA-APHIS

  Co-Author: Ian Grettenberger – University of California
• 8:24 AM – 8:36 AM MST

  Exploring population trends and potential chemical control of invasive Bulimulus snails in Florida citrus
  

  Presenting Author: Sankara Ganesh (he/him/his) – University of Florida

  Co-Author: Lauren M. Diepenbrock (she/her/hers) – University of Florida
• 8:36 AM – 8:48 AM MST

  Herbivore risk alters plant palatability across woody plant ontogeny
  

  Presenting Author: Brooke Pellegrini – University of Rhode Island

  Co-Author: Katherine Overstrum (she/her/hers) – University of Rhode Island

  Co-Author: Eirette Santiago (she/her/hers) – University of Rhode Island

  Co-Author: Evan Preisser (he/him/his) – University of Rhode Island
• 8:48 AM – 9:00 AM MST

  Impacts of insecticide application timing on the oviposition potential of Ganaspis kimorum
  

  Presenting Author: Benjamin Crossman Johnson – University of Maine

  Co-Author: Philip Fanning – University of Maine
• 9:00 AM – 9:12 AM MST

  Nature’s avengers: Functional and numerical response studies of Leucotaraxis spp., predators of hemlock woolly adelgid
  

  Presenting Author: Olivia Kay Andrews (she/her/hers) – Virginia Tech

  Co-Author: Mark Whitmore – Cornell University

  Co-Author: Scott S. Salom – Virginia Tech

  Co-Author: Thomas P. Kuhar – Virginia Tech

  Co-Author: Albert E. Mayfield – USDA-Forest Service

  Co-Author: Chin-Cheng Scotty Yang – Virginia Tech
• 9:24 AM – 9:36 AM MST

  The acacia and Trichilogaster story continues: Biological control of earleaf acacia in Florida
  

  Presenting Author: Sara Elizabeth Salgado Astudillo – University of Florida

  Co-Author: Emily Le Falchier (she/her/hers) – University of Florida

  Co-Author: Sheri L. Holmes – University of Florida

  Co-Author: Melissa Smith – USDA-ARS

  Co-Author: Matthew F. Purcell (he/him/his) – CSIRO

  Co-Author: Ryan Zonneveld – The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

  Co-Author: Carey Minteer – University of Florida
• 9:36 AM – 9:48 AM MST

  The threat of invasive plants across trophic levels
  

  Presenting Author: Ari Zakroff – George Washington University

  Co-Author: John O. Stireman, III – Wright State University