Grad 10-min Competition: SysEB, Biodiversity 2

Moderator(s)

• IM

  István Mikó

  Collections Manager
  Don Chandler Entomological Collection, Biological Sciences
  University of New Hampshire
  Strafford, New Hampshire
• AP

  Adrian Pekarcik

  Research Entomologist
  USDA-ARS
  Brookings, South Dakota

Presentations:

• 10:30 AM – 10:42 AM MST

  Effect of population density and locust phase on viruses associated with Central American locusts, Schistocerca piceifrons
  

  Presenting Author: Sydney Millerwise (she/her/hers) – Arizona State University

  Co-Author: Arvind Varsani – Arizona State University

  Co-Author: Matthew De Koch – Arizona State University

  Co-Author: Christopher Brennan – Texas A&M University

  Co-Author: Audélia M.C Mechti (she/her/hers) – Texas A&M University

  Co-Author: Vivian A. Peralta Santana (she/her/hers) – Texas A&M University

  Co-Author: Henry Javier Chan Tun – Yucatan Plant Health

  Co-Author: Mario Poot Pech – Yucatan Plant Health

  Co-Author: Jon F. Harrison – Arizona State University

  Co-Author: Arianne Cease – Arizona State University
• 10:42 AM – 10:54 AM MST

  Establishing an assurance population for the critically endangered Poecilotheria tarantula
  

  Presenting Author: Jackie Billotte – Colorado State University

  Co-Author: Kristen Wade – University of California

  Co-Author: Ruth Hufbauer – Colorado State University

  Co-Author: Richard Reading – Butterfly Pavilion
• 10:54 AM – 11:06 AM MST

  Exotic bees dominate bee hotels in urban forest fragments
  

  Presenting Author: Miriam Edelkind-Vealey – University of Georgia

  Co-Author: S. Kristine Braman – University of Georgia

  Co-Author: Michael Ulyshen – USDA-Forest Service

  Co-Author: Kerry M. Oliver – University of Georgia

  Co-Author: John Wares – University of Georgia
• 11:06 AM – 11:18 AM MST

  How does symbiont metabolism match B-vitamin dietary needs across the world’s insects?
  

  Presenting Author: Hannah Marie Smith – Drexel University
• 11:18 AM – 11:30 AM MST

  Local field position within blueberry fields determines the composition of ground-dwelling spiders
  

  Presenting Author: Sarah Miranda de Rezende – University of Georgia

  Co-Author: Zack Williams – University of Georgia

  Co-Author: Svoboda Pennisi – University of Georgia

  Co-Author: Jason M. Schmidt – University of Georgia
• 11:42 AM – 11:54 AM MST

  Road salts and dragonflies: How does winter salt pollution impact pond macroinvertebrate communities?
  

  Presenting Author: Hannah M. Bodmer (she/her/hers) – University of Toronto

  Co-Author: Nihal Ercin – University of Toronto

  Co-Author: Rosalind Murray – University of Toronto

  Co-Author: Shannon McCauley – University of Toronto
• 11:54 AM – 12:06 PM MST

  The importance of insect biomass and abundance for grouse populations
  

  Presenting Author: Julianna Rose Yager – Binghamton University

  Co-Author: Eliza Grames – Binghamton University

  Co-Author: Joseph Elias – Binghamton University
• 12:06 PM – 12:18 PM MST

  Urban biodiversity: Exploring microhabitat heterogeneity and beetle communities in Central Florida urban parks
  

  Presenting Author: Alessandra Pandolfi – University of Central Florida

  Co-Author: David G. G. Jenkins – University of Central Florida

  Co-Author: Patrick J. J. Bohlen – University of Central Florida
• 12:18 PM – 12:30 PM MST

  What's abuzz at the base: Bee diversity on Fairchild Air Force Base
  

  Presenting Author: Alexis Menth (she/her/hers) – Washington State University

  Co-Author: Richard S. Zack, Jr. – Washington State University

  Co-Author: Silas Bossert (he/him/his) – Washington State University

  Co-Author: Joel Gardner – Washington State University

  Co-Author: Elizabeth Murray – Washington State University