10-min: SysEB, Microbiome and Symbiosis

Moderator(s)

• 

  Cristian Beza-Beza, Ph.D.

  President's Postdoctoral Fellow
  Biological Sciences
  University of Minnesota
  Minneapolis, Minnesota
• 

  Lilian Caesar, Ph.D. (she/her/hers)

  Postdoctoral researcher
  Department of Biology
  Indiana University
  Bloomington, Indiana

Presentations:

• 1:30 PM – 1:42 PM MST

  A potential cost to environmental symbiont acquisition in the arboreal leaf-footed bug Leptoglossus zonatus
  

  Presenting Author: Molly S. Hunter (she/her/hers) – University of Arizona

  Co-Author: Liam T. Sullivan – Entomology & Insect Science GIDP

  Co-Author: Suzanne E. Kelly (she/her/hers) – University of Arizona

  Co-Author: Alison Ravenscraft (she/her/hers) – University of Texas
• 1:42 PM – 1:54 PM MST

  Decoding the symbiotic dynamics of the wood-degrading bess beetles (Coleoptera: Passalidae) and their gut microbiomes: Evolutionary and ecological insights
  

  Presenting Author: Cristian Fernando Beza-Beza, Ph.D. – University of Minnesota

  Co-Author: Larry Jiménez-Ferbans – Universidad del Magdalena

  Co-Author: Aram Mikaelyan – North Carolina State University
• 1:54 PM – 2:06 PM MST

  Microbial symbioses in treehoppers: Multipartite masterpieces or muddled mess?
  

  Presenting Author: Amanda M.V. Brown – Texas Tech University

  Co-Author: McKinlee M. Salazar – Texas Tech University

  Co-Author: Monica T. Pupo – Universidade de São Paulo
• 2:06 PM – 2:18 PM MST

  Metabarcode characterization of bacterial and fungal communities from diverse North American wild bees
  

  Presenting Author: Trevor J. Sless – York University

  Co-Author: Katherine Chau – York University

  Co-Author: Phuong Nguyen (she/her/hers) – York University

  Co-Author: Makaylee Keao Crone (they/them/theirs) – York University

  Co-Author: Sandra Rehan – York University
• 2:18 PM – 2:30 PM MST

  The dynamics of honey bee queen microbiome and its mobilome under stress
  

  Presenting Author: Lilian Caesar, Ph.D. (she/her/hers) – Indiana University

  Co-Author: Edward Hsieh – University of Illinois

  Co-Author: Adam G. Dolezal (he/him/his) – University of Illinois

  Co-Author: Irene Newton – Indiana University
• 2:30 PM – 2:42 PM MST

  Virome compositions in honey bee (Apis mellifera) and small carpenter bee (Ceratina calcarata) in response to various agricultural landscapes in New Hampshire
  

  Presenting Author: Zixiao Zhao – Central State University

  Co-Author: Sandra Rehan (she/her/hers) – York University

  Co-Author: Hongmei Li-Byarlay – Central State University
• 2:42 PM – 2:54 PM MST

  Sequence mining reveals host-associated forms, expression patterns, and evolutionary divergence of Apis mellifera filamentous virus
  

  Presenting Author: Scott Cornman – U.S. Geological Survey
• 2:54 PM – 3:06 PM MST

  Range limits, symbiont diversity and specificity in fungus-gardening ants
  

  Presenting Author: Jon Nicholas Seal – University of Texas

  Co-Author: Katrin Kellner (she/her/hers) – University of Texas
• 3:06 PM – 3:18 PM MST

  Myrmecochory: A global cross-kingdom convergence in angiosperms and stick insects (Phasmatodea)
  

  Presenting Author: James A. Robertson – USDA-APHIS
• 3:18 PM – 3:30 PM MST

  Community assembly of the Hawaiian Drosophila microbiome
  

  Presenting Author: Matthew J. Medeiros – University of Hawaii

  Co-Author: Sean Schoville – University of Wisconsin

  Co-Author: Kacie Kajihara – University of Hawaii

  Co-Author: Nicole Hynson – University of Hawaii

  Co-Author: Donald Price – University of Las Vegas

  Co-Author: Joanne Y. Yew – University of Hawaii