Down a Long and Winding Road: Tackling Insect Research Using Long Reads

Organizer(s)

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  Yelena Pacheco (she/her/hers)

  Postdoctoral fellow
  USDA-ARS
  Arlington, Virginia

This session will discuss the variety of ways long read sequencing can be used in the field of entomology. Topics will include genomics, phylogenetics, and microbiomes.

Presentations:

• 8:00 AM – 8:05 AM MST

  Introductory remarks
  

  Presenting Author: Yelena Pacheco (she/her/hers) – USDA-ARS
• 8:05 AM – 8:23 AM MST

  Direct sequencing of insect symbionts via nanopore adaptive sampling
  

  Presenting Author: Sara Goodwin – Cold Springs Harbor Laboratory

  Co-Author: Jonathan H. Badger – National Cancer Institute

  Co-Author: Rosanna Giordano – Florida International University

  Co-Author: Aleksey Zimin – Johns Hopkins University

  Co-Author: Robert Wappel – Cold Springs Harbor Laboratory

  Co-Author: Senem M. Eskipehlivan – Cold Springs Harbor Laboratory

  Co-Author: Stephanie Muller – Cold Springs Harbor Laboratory

  Co-Author: Ravikiran Donthu – Mahindra University

  Co-Author: Felipe Soto-Adames – Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services

  Co-Author: Paulo Vieira – USDA-ARS

  Co-Author: Inga Zasada – USDA-ARS
• 8:23 AM – 8:41 AM MST

  Characterization of silk gland expression across two caddisfly species using long-read sequencing technology
  

  Presenting Author: Gabriela Jijon (she/her/hers) – Brigham Young University

  Co-Author: Danyon Gedris – Brigham Young University

  Co-Author: Riley C. Nelson – Brigham Young University

  Co-Author: Paul Bryan Frandsen – Brigham Young University
• 8:41 AM – 8:59 AM MST

  Lessons from a long-read assembly of a North American aphid
  

  Presenting Author: Yelena Pacheco (she/her/hers) – USDA-ARS

  Co-Author: Rebecca A. Clement (she/her/hers) – USDA-APHIS

  Co-Author: Christopher Owen (he/him/his) – USDA-ARS
• 8:59 AM – 9:17 AM MST

  Insights from long-read sequencing: Phylogenomics, genome structure, and functional genomics of Odonata
  

  Presenting Author: Ethan R. Tolman – Virginia Tech

  Co-Author: Manpreet Kohli – City University of New York

  Co-Author: Paul Bryan Frandsen – Brigham Young University

  Co-Author: Jessica L. Ware, Ph.D. (she/her/hers) – American Museum of Natural History

  Co-Author: Anton Suvorov – Virginia Tech
• 9:17 AM – 9:35 AM MST

  Using HiFi sequencing to recover allelic diversity of silk proteins across Lepidoptera
  

  Presenting Author: Samantha Standring (she/her/hers) – Brigham Young University

  Co-author: Ashlyn Powell – Brigham Young University

  Co-author: Danyon Gedris – Brigham Young University

  Co-author: Charlotte Wright – Sanger Institute

  Co-author: Natalie Nyborg – Brigham Young University

  Co-author: Jacqueline Heckenhauer – LOEWE Centre for Translational Biodiversity Genomics

  Co-author: Akito Y. Kawahara, Ph.D. – Florida Museum of Natural History

  Co-author: Bert Foquet – University of Florida

  Co-author: Gabriela Jijon (she/her/hers) – Brigham Young University

  Co-author: Rachit Singh – Florida Museum of Natural History

  Co-author: Paul Bryan Frandsen – Brigham Young University