Grad 10-min Competition: PBT, Genetics and Molecular and Cellular Biology

Moderator(s)

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  David Kang

  Research Molecular Biologist
  Biological Control of Insects Research Laboratory
  USDA-ARS
  Columbia, Missouri
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  Megan Meuti

  Entomology professor
  Department of Entomology
  The Ohio State University
  Columbus, Ohio

Presentations:

• 10:30 AM – 10:42 AM MST

  Decoding Mycangia: Gene expression at the interfaces of two beetle-fungus symbioses
  

  Presenting Author: Miranda Guinevere Barnes – University of Florida

  Co-Author: Jiri Hulcr – University of Florida
• 10:42 AM – 10:54 AM MST

  Estimating the frequency of alleles associated with pyrethroid resistance in Aphis glycines
  

  Presenting Author: Matthew Ryan Pfab (he/him/his) – Iowa State University

  Co-Author: Matthew E. O'Neal – Iowa State University

  Co-Author: Brad S. Coates – USDA-ARS

  Co-Author: Ivair Valmorbida – University of Missouri

  Co-Author: Erin W. Hodgson (she/her/hers) – Iowa State University
• 10:54 AM – 11:06 AM MST

  Exploring the molecular mechanisms of pyrethroid resistance in Hypera postica (Coleoptera: Curculionidade) across the Western United States
  

  Presenting Author: Muhammad Umer Masood – Montana State University

  Co-Author: Erika A. Rodbell – Montana State University

  Co-Author: Kevin Wanner – Montana State University
• 11:06 AM – 11:18 AM MST

  Functional analysis of virus-like particles produced by ancestral machinery in parasitoid wasps, Venturia canescens
  

  Presenting Author: Alexandra Nicole Morales (she/her/hers) – University of Georgia

  Co-Author: Gaelen R. Burke – University of Georgia
• 11:18 AM – 11:30 AM MST

  Modifying phytosterol profiles in upland cotton reduces the performance of cotton aphids
  

  Presenting Author: Mason Clark – Texas A&M University

  Co-Author: Greg Sword – Texas A&M University

  Co-Author: Spencer Behmer – Texas A&M University
• 11:30 AM – 11:42 AM MST

  Now you see me, now you don’t: Using CRISPR/Cas9 to delete engineered genes in the yellow fever mosquito
  

  Presenting Author: Joseph Romanowski – Texas A&M University

  Co-Author: Keun Chae – Texas A&M University

  Co-Author: Kevin Myles – Texas A&M University

  Co-Author: Zach N. Adelman – Texas A&M University
• 11:42 AM – 11:54 AM MST

  Resistance mechanisms to diamides in the soybean looper, Chrysodeixis includens
  

  Presenting Author: Sena Isbilir – Mississippi State University

  Co-Author: Lauren Catchot – Mississippi State University

  Co-Author: Fred R. Musser (he/him/his) – Mississippi State University

  Co-Author: Seung-Joon Ahn – Mississippi State University
• 11:54 AM – 12:06 PM MST

  The role of wasp cellular processes in bracovirus production
  

  Presenting Author: Nicholas Arnold Furlong – University of Georgia

  Co-Author: Michael R. Strand – University of Georgia

  Co-Author: Gaelen R. Burke – University of Georgia
• 12:06 PM – 12:18 PM MST

  Molecular regulation of age polyethism in the Formosan subterranean termite, Coptotermes formosanus
  

  Presenting Author: Arjun Khadka – Louisiana State University

  Co-Author: Hasim Hakanoglu (he/him/his) – Louisiana State University

  Co-Author: Sang-Bin Lee – University of California

  Co-Author: Qian Sun – Louisiana State University