Empowering Tomorrow: Indigenous Scientists and Insect Science

Organizer(s)

• WL

  Willow Lovecky

  University of Virginia
  Charlottesville, Virginia
• SW

  Sky Wildcat

  Senior Career Program Officer
  AISES - Advancing Indigenous People In STEM
  Salina, Oklahoma
• 

  Melissa Reed

  Postdoc
  Entomology and Plant Pathology
  Oklahoma State University
  Stillwater, Oklahoma
• DM

  Daniel Marshall

  Graduate Research Assistant
  Washington State University
  Pullman, Washington

This session presents Indigenous perspectives in arthropod science and active research on topics of relevance to tribal communities including public health, traditional ecological knowledge, and education. Two panel sessions consisting of Indigenous entomologists and tribal adjacent scholars from multiple career levels and disciplines will follow our speakers.

Presentations:

• 8:00 AM – 8:05 AM MST

  Introductory remarks
  

  Presenting Author: Daniel Marshall – Washington State University
• 8:05 AM – 8:20 AM MST

  AISES-Advancing Indigenous People in STEM: Supporting Indigenous voices in biological societies
  

  Presenting Author: Sky Wildcat – AISES - Advancing Indigenous People In STEM
• 8:20 AM – 8:35 AM MST

  Rooted defenders: The role of entomopathogenic nematodes in enhancing systemic cucumber plant resistance to adult striped cucumber beetles
  

  Presenting Author: Adriane Fifield (she/her/hers) – Texas A&M University

  Co-Author: Anjel Helms – Texas A&M University
• 8:35 AM – 8:50 AM MST

  Investigating the effects of trap nest density on rates of parasitism
  

  Presenting Author: Willow Lovecky – University of Virginia

  Co-Author: T'ai Roulston (he/him/his) – University of Virginia
• 8:50 AM – 9:05 AM MST

  Movement capabilities of Amblyomma americanum in laboratory and field conditions
  

  Presenting Author: Daniel Marshall – Washington State University

  Co-Author: Karen C. Poh (she/her/hers) – USDA-ARS

  Co-Author: Mason Reichard – Oklahoma State University

  Co-Author: Jeb P. Owen – Washington State University
• 9:05 AM – 9:15 AM MST

  Break
• 9:15 AM – 9:30 AM MST

  Using Hualapai language and insect science to engage youth in STEM learning
  

  Presenting Author: Elisabeth Alden – University of Arizona
• 9:30 AM – 9:45 AM MST

  Insect science the Auntie way: Applying Indigenous perspectives and upholding sovereignty
  

  Presenting Author: Cheyenne Reuben-Thomas (she/they) – Cornell University
• 9:45 AM – 10:00 AM MST

  Socioecological impacts on population structure in a host-dependent urban pest, the common bed bug (Cimex lectularius)
  

  Presenting Author: Cari Lewis – University of Tulsa

  Co-Author: Warren Booth – Virginia Tech
• 10:15 AM – 10:25 AM MST

  Break
• 10:25 AM – 11:05 AM MST

  Panel discussion
• 11:05 AM – 11:15 AM MST

  Break
• 11:15 AM – 11:55 AM MST

  Panel discussion
• 11:55 AM – 12:00 PM MST

  Closing remarks
  

  Presenting Author: Daniel Marshall – Washington State University