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  • On-Demand
    10-min: SysEB, Biodiversity, Biogeography and Speciation
    SysEB10-Minute Paper
  • On-Demand
    10-Min: SysEB, Biodiversity, Conservation and Pollination
    SysEB10-Minute Paper
  • On-Demand
    10-min: SysEB, Bioinformatics, Genomics, and Molecular Biology
    SysEB10-Minute Paper
  • On-Demand
    10-min: SysEB, Ecology and Behavior
    SysEB10-Minute Paper
  • On-Demand
    10-min: SysEB, Education, Extension, and Public Outreach
    SysEB10-Minute Paper
  • On-Demand
    10-min: SysEB, Morphology, Taxonomy, and Evolution
    SysEB10-Minute Paper
  • On-Demand
    10-min: SysEB, Phylogenetics
    SysEB10-Minute Paper
  • On-Demand
    10-min: SysEB, Social Insects
    SysEB10-Minute Paper
  • On-Demand
    10-min: SysEB, Symbionts and Microbes
    SysEB10-Minute Paper
  • On-Demand
    Grad 10-min: SysEB, Behavior
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • On-Demand
    Grad 10-min: SysEB, Biodiversity
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • On-Demand
    Grad 10-min: SysEB, Climate Change and Biogeography
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • On-Demand
    Grad 10-min: SysEB, Ecology
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • On-Demand
    Grad 10-min: SysEB, Evolution 1
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • On-Demand
    Grad 10-min: SysEB, Evolution 2
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • On-Demand
    Grad 10-min: SysEB, Genomics
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • On-Demand
    Grad 10-min: SysEB, Social Insect Genetics
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • On-Demand
    Grad 10-min: SysEB, Social Insects
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • On-Demand
    Grad 10-min: SysEB, Symbionts
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • On-Demand
    Myrmecology For All: Combining Morphology, Molecules, Ecology, and Behavior to Advance Ant Systematics
    Organizer: Andrea Lucky – University of Florida
    Organizer: Corrie S. Moreau – Cornell University
    Organizer: Rachelle M. Adams – The Ohio State University
    SysEBSection Symposium
  • On-Demand
    Undergrad 10-min: SysEB
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • On-Demand
    A bioinformatic survey of Helicoverpa zea Nudivirus
    Presenting Author: Emrah Ozel – University of Kentucky
    Co-Author: Bruce Webb – University of Kentucky
    SysEB10-Minute Paper
  • On-Demand
    A look into the diversity and abundance of nesting bees and wasps (Aculeata) found in bison wallows
    Presenting Author: Josh Paul Klostermann – University of Missouri
    Co-Author: Bethanne Bruninga-Socolar – Albright College
    Co-Author: Sean R. Griffin – University of Texas at Austin
    Co-Author: Chandler Dolan
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • On-Demand
    A marking study of the regal fritillary butterfly within west-central Missouri remnant prairies
    Presenting Author: Daniel Marschalek – University of Central Missouri
    Co-Author: Daniel Wolcott – University of Central Missouri
    SysEB10-Minute Paper
  • On-Demand
    A method for the in-vitro rearing of Bombus impatiens brood
    Presenting Author: Etya Amsalem – Pennsylvania State University
    Co-Author: Katherine Barie – Pennsylvania State University
    SysEB10-Minute Paper
  • On-Demand
    A new genus of Castniinae (Lepidoptera) with comments on comparative morphology and bionomics of its assigned species
    Presenting Author: Jacqueline Y. Miller – McGuire Center for Lepidoptera & Biodiversity
    Co-Author: Jorge Gonzalez – Austin Public Schools
    Co-Author: Bernardo Lopez – None
    Co-Author: Ignacio Zaragozo – none
    SysEB10-Minute Paper
  • On-Demand
    A novel method of monitoring the health of our global freshwater supply using DNA barcoding
    Presenting Author: Sonja Michaluk – Carnegie Mellon University
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • On-Demand
    A phylogenetic revision of the blue-green citrus weevils (Pachnaeus Schoenherr, 1826)
    Presenting Author: Brian Herndon Reily – Arizona State University
    Co-Author: Nico franz – Arizona State University
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • On-Demand
    A phylogeographic approach to the redbanded stink bug Piezodorus guildinii (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae) in Brazil
    Presenting Author: Tamara Moraes – University of São Paulo/ "Luiz de Queiroz" College of Agriculture
    Co-Author: Larissa M. Santos – USP/ESALQ
    Co-Author: Alberto Soares Corrêa – University of Sao Paulo
    Co-Author: Cristiano Schwertner – Federal University of São Paulo
    SysEB10-Minute Paper
  • On-Demand
    A review of the ectoparasitic fungi that infect termites
    Presenting Author: Megan M. Wilson – Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
    Co-Author: Jessica Ware – American Museum of Natural History
    Co-Author: Phillip Barden – New Jersey Institute of Technology
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • On-Demand
    A survey of acridid grasshoppers of Oklahoma and a comparison of species richness among six ecoregions
    Presenting Author: Alex J. Harman – Oklahoma State University
    Co-Author: W Wyatt Hoback – Oklahoma State University
    Co-Author: Tom Royer – Oklahoma State University
    Co-Author: Phillip G. Mulder, Jr. – Oklahoma State University
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • On-Demand
    A survey of the threatened damselfly, Ceriagrion citrinum Campion, 1914 (Odonata: Coenagrionidae) and associated dragonflies and damselflies in four forests in Nigeria
    Presenting Author: Ojonugwa Ekpah
    Co-Author: Kehinde A. Kemabonta – University of Lagos
    Co-Author: Klaas-Douwe Dijkstra – Naturalis Biodiversity Centre, Netherlands
    Co-Author: Sylvester S. Ogbogu – Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun state, Nigeria
    Co-Author: Judicaël Fomekong-Lontchi – Laboratory of Zoology, Faculty of Science, University of Yaoundé 1, Cameroon
    Co-Author: Clifford Omonu – Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria
    SysEB10-Minute Paper
  • On-Demand
    A synthetic origin of species: Engineering multiple genetic incompatibilities in D. melanogaster
    Presenting Author: Maciej Maselko
    Co-Author: Nathan Feltman – University of Minnesota
    Co-Author: Ambuj Upadhyay – University of Minnesota
    Co-Author: Amanda Hayward – University of Minnesota
    Co-Author: Siba Das – NovoClade
    Co-Author: Nathan Myslicki – University of Minnesota
    Co-Author: Aidan Peterson – University of Minnesota
    Co-Author: Michael O'Connor – University of Minnesota
    Co-Author: Michael Smanski – University of Minnesota
    SysEB10-Minute Paper
  • On-Demand
    A top-down trophic cascade structures native bee communities in a highly fragmented, endemic habitat
    Presenting Author: Nicholas Anderson (he/him/his) – University of Illinois
    Co-Author: Alexandra Harmon-Threatt – University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • On-Demand
    Abundance, diversity, and distribution of phytoseiid mites (Acari: Phytoseiidae) from citrus under different pest management programs in Florida
    Presenting Author: Emilie Pauline Demard – University of Florida
    Co-Author: Ismail Döker – Çukurova University
    Co-Author: Jawwad A. Qureshi – University of Florida
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • On-Demand
    Adaptation across latitude and elevation gradients from hundreds of whole genome sequences in two montane bumble bee species
    Presenting Author: Sam D. Heraghty – The University of Alabama
    Co-Author: Jeff Lozier (he/him/his) – University of Alabama
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • On-Demand
    Advances in the cockroach phylogeny
    Presenting Author: Dominic Anthony Evangelista (he/him/his) – University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
    Co-Author: Jessica Ware – American Museum of Natural History
    Co-Author: Megan M. Wilson – Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
    Co-Author: Akito Y. Kawahara – Florida Museum Of Natural History
    Co-Author: Manpreet Kaur Kohli – Baruch College, City University of New York
    Co-Author: Sabrina Simon – Wageningen University and Research
    Co-Author: Benjamin Wipfler
    Co-Author: Brian O'Meara – University of Tennessee
    SysEB10-Minute Paper
  • On-Demand
    Advances in the phylogeny and classification of robber flies (Diptera: Asilidae)
    Presenting Author: Christopher Michael Cohen
    SysEB10-Minute Paper
  • On-Demand
    Altitudinal stratification of the passalid (Coleoptera: Passalidae) community in the Guatemalan Southern Volcanic Chain
    Presenting Author: Cristian Fernando Beza-Beza – North Carolina State University
    Co-Author: Camilo Rivera – Universidad del Valle de Guatemala
    Co-Author: Diego Pons-Gandini – Colorado State University
    Co-Author: Duane McKenna – University of Memphis
    Co-Author: Jack Schuster – Universidad del Valle de Guatemala
    SysEB10-Minute Paper
  • On-Demand
    Amplifying the tropical ants: Methodologies for interdisciplinary research
    Presenting Author: Lisa Ann Schonberg (she/her/hers) – Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
    Co-Author: Fabricio Beggiato Baccaro – Federal University of Amazonas
    Co-Author: Érica Marinho do Vale – INPA
    Co-Author: Tainara Sobroza – INPA
    SysEB10-Minute Paper
  • On-Demand
    An ethogram for the comanche harvester ant, Pogonomyrmex comanche (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)
    Presenting Author: Ann B. Mayo – Weatherford College
    SysEB10-Minute Paper
  • On-Demand
    Ancient enemies: Phylogenomics of the Culicidae reveals ancient radiations
    Presenting Author: John Soghigian – University of Calgary
    Co-Author: Charles Benedict Sither – North Carolina State University
    Co-Author: Michael H. Reiskind – North Carolina State University
    Co-Author: Brian Wiegmann – North Carolina State University
    SysEB10-Minute Paper
  • On-Demand
    Army ants invest in high functioning self-assembled bridges
    Presenting Author: Helen McCreery – Harvard University
    Co-Author: Simon Garnier – New Jersey Institute of Technology
    Co-Author: Radhika Nagpal – Harvard University
    Co-Author: Ana Isabel Pais – Rutgers University - Newark
    Co-Author: Georgina Gemayel – University of Southern California
    SysEB10-Minute Paper
  • On-Demand
    Ashmeadiella (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae) phylogeny, phenology, and forage
    Presenting Author: Elizabeth Murray – Washington State University
    Co-Author: Laurelin Evanhoe – Cornell University, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
    Co-Author: Silas Bossert (he/him/his) – Washington State University
    Co-Author: Monica Geber – Cornell University, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
    Co-Author: Terry L. Griswold – USDA ARS Pollinating Insects Research Unit
    Co-Author: Shaun McCoshum (he/him/his) – Westwood Professional Services
    SysEB10-Minute Paper
  • On-Demand
    Beauty and the yeast: A social insect cultivates a dense coat of symbiotic fungus on its body
    Presenting Author: Jeffrey Sosa-Calvo – National Museum of Natural History-Smithsonian Institution
    Co-Author: Ted R. Schultz – Smithsonian Institution
    Co-Author: André Rodrigues – São Paulo State University
    Co-Author: Beatriz L. Sanchez – Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)
    Co-Author: Caue Lopes – Universidade Federal de Uberlândia
    Co-Author: Yamid A. Mera – Universidad del Cauca
    Co-Author: Heraldo L. Vasconcelos – Universidade Federal de Uberlândia
    Co-Author: Johan Billen – University of Leuven
    Co-Author: Christian Rabeling – Arizona State University
    SysEB10-Minute Paper
  • On-Demand
    Bees and butterflies respond differently to fire and grazing management in remnant tallgrass prairie
    Presenting Author: Julia B. Leone (she/her/hers) – University of Minnesota
    Co-Author: Nora Pennarola – Department of Entomology, University of Minnesota
    Co-Author: Jennifer L. Larson – Polistes Foundation
    Co-Author: Karen S. Oberhauser – University of Wisconsin
    Co-Author: Diane L. Larson – U.S. Geological Survey
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • On-Demand
    Better shelter, prosper future: Integrated phylogenomic and sanger data provides insights into the evolution of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera)
    Presenting Author: Xuankun Li – University of Memphis
    Co-Author: Atsushi Kawakita – Center for Ecological Research, Kyoto University
    Co-Author: Erik Van Nieukerken – Entomological Laboratory, Kyushu University, Graduate School of Bioresource and Bioenvironmental Sciences
    Co-Author: Shigeki Kobayashi – Entomological Laboratory, Kyushu University, Graduate School of Bioresource and Bioenvironmental Sciences
    Co-Author: Camiel Doorenweerd – University of Hawai'i
    Co-Author: Carlos Lopez-Vaamonde – French National Institute for Agriculture, Food, and Environment (INRAE)
    Co-Author: Don Davis – Department of Entomology, Smithsonian Institution
    Co-Author: Issei Ohshima – Kyoto Prefectural University
    Co-Author: Akito Y. Kawahara – Florida Museum Of Natural History
    SysEB10-Minute Paper
  • On-Demand
    Beyond PDF publishing: Digitally accessible knowledge as the new frontier in biodiversity exploration and preservation
    Presenting Author: Donat Agosti – Plazi
    Co-Author: Lyubomir Penev – Pensoft
    Co-Author: Laurence Bénichou – Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle
    Co-Author: Jeremy A. Miller – Naturalis
    Co-Author: Torsten Dikow – Smithsonian NMNH
    Co-Author: Marcus Guidoti – Plazi
    SysEB10-Minute Paper
  • On-Demand
    BID: A project to share biotic interaction and ecological trait data about bees (Hymenoptera: Anthophila)
    Presenting Author: Katja C. Seltmann (she/her/hers) – University of California Santa Barbara
    Co-Author: Janice Van Wagner – Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration, University of California Santa Barbara
    Co-Author: Rachel Behm – University of Central Florida
    Co-Author: Zachary Brown – Mississippi Entomological Museum, Mississippi State University
    Co-Author: Elaine Tan – School of Biological Sciences, University of Utah
    Co-Author: Kristi Liu – Interdisciplinary Research Collaboratory, UCSB Library, University of California Santa Barbara
    SysEB10-Minute Paper
  • On-Demand
    Biodiversity assessment and abundance of Odonates of Benin-Owena River Basin Catchment, Igbara-Oke, Nigeria
    Presenting Author: Ayodeji Bidemi Bakare
    Co-Author: Babasola Adu – Federal University of Technology, Akure
    Co-Author: Oluwaseun Olorunmeke – Federal University of Technology, Akure
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • On-Demand
    Bumble bee (Bombus spp.) responses to prairie restoration, management with fire, and the amount of semi-natural habitat in the surrounding broad-scale landscape
    Presenting Author: Jade M. Kochanski (she/her/hers) – University of Wisconsin
    Co-Author: Claudio Gratton – University of Wisconsin - Madison
    Co-Author: Stephanie L. McFarlane – University of Wisconsin
    Co-Author: Ellen I. Damschen – University of Wisconsin
    SysEB10-Minute Paper
  • On-Demand
    Cantharidin world on bird droppings: A new trophic pathway of cantharidin transfer from cantharidin-producing to canthariphilous arthropods mediated by avian predation
    Presenting Author: Hidemori Yazaki – Tokyo Metropolitan University
    Co-Author: Kosei Hashimoto – Takasaki City University of Economics
    Co-Author: Nozomu Sato – Tokyo Metropolitan University
    Co-Author: Fumio Hayashi – Tokyo Metropolitan University
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • On-Demand
    Cardinium localization during its parasitoid wasp host’s development provides insights into cytoplasmic incompatibility
    Presenting Author: Matthew R. Doremus – University of Kentucky
    Co-Author: Corinne M. Stouthamer – University of Arizona
    Co-Author: Suzanne E. Kelly – University of Arizona
    Co-Author: Stephan Schmitz-Esser – Iowa State University
    Co-Author: Martha S. Hunter – University Of Arizona
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • On-Demand
    Centrality of hygienic honey bee workers in colony social networks
    Presenting Author: Adrian Alexander Perez – UC Davis
    Co-Author: Brian Johnson – University of California, Davis
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • On-Demand
    Characterization of bacterial communities in American burying beetle (Nicrophorus americanus) secretions through gram staining, MALDI-TOF analysis, and 16S sequencing
    Presenting Author: Carrie Joy Pratt
    Co-Author: John E. Gustafson – Oklahoma State University
    Co-Author: W Wyatt Hoback – Oklahoma State University
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • On-Demand
    Chromosome-level genome assemblies and linkage mapping clarify genomic architecture of neo-sex chromosome evolution and range expansion in the mountain pine beetle, Dendroctonus ponderosae
    Presenting Author: Erin Campbell – University of Alberta
    Co-Author: Christopher I. Keeling – Natural Resources Canada
    Co-Author: Victor Shegelski – University of Alberta
    Co-Author: Philip Daniel Batista – Government of British Columbia
    Co-Author: Stephen Trevoy – University of Alberta
    Co-Author: Dezene P. Huber – University of Northern British Columbia
    Co-Author: Jasmine K. Janes
    Co-Author: Felix Sperling – University of Alberta
    SysEB10-Minute Paper
  • On-Demand
    Circadian gene expression comparison across honey bee (Apis mellifera) long-lived bees and foragers
    Presenting Author: Carlos A. Ortiz-Alvarado – University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras
    Co-Author: Arelis N. Delgado-Ortiz – University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras
    Co-Author: Ana R. Pemberton – University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
    Co-Author: Tugrul Giray – University of Puerto Rico
    Co-Author: Ravi K. Donthu – Puerto Rico Science Technology Research Trust, San Juan, PR
    Co-Author: Stephanie Feliciano-Cardona – University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras
    Co-Author: Mehmet Ali Döke – University of Puerto Rico in Rio Piedras
    Co-Author: Jose L. Agosto-Rivera – University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras
    SysEB10-Minute Paper
  • On-Demand
    Climate change and agricultural intensification exert opposing pressures on a native bee
    Presenting Author: Evan P. Kelemen
    Co-Author: Sandra Rehan (she/her/hers) – York University
    SysEB10-Minute Paper
  • On-Demand
    Combining strontium and hydrogen isotopes to estimate the provenance of monarch butterflies
    Presenting Author: Megan Reich – University of Ottawa
    Co-Author: Clement P. Bataille – University of Ottawa
    Co-Author: Tyler Flockhart – University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science
    Co-Author: D. Ryan Norris – University of Guelph
    Co-Author: Lihai Hu – University of Ottawa
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • On-Demand
    Comparative genomic analyses reveal population structure associated with variable climate in a widely distributed social wasp
    Presenting Author: Floria Uy – University of Rochester
    Co-Author: Sara E. Miller – Cornell University
    Co-Author: Kevin J. Loope – University of California, Riverside
    Co-Author: Michael J. Sheehan – Cornell University
    SysEB10-Minute Paper
  • On-Demand
    Constrained sex allocation in mated females of a haplodiploid thrips: An outcome of a paternal‐sex‐ratio (PSR) element or a maternal fitness effect?
    Presenting Author: Alihan Katlav – Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment
    Co-Author: Doung T. Nguyen – Elizabeth Macarthur Agricultural Institute
    Co-Author: James M. Cook – Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment
    Co-Author: Markus Riegler – Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • On-Demand
    Constraints on vein morphology in the wings of Lepidoptera increase with body size
    Presenting Author: Sandra Schachat – Stanford University
    SysEB10-Minute Paper
  • On-Demand
    Context-dependent mutualist warns host before lethal sting
    Presenting Author: Matthew R. Boot – The Ohio State University
    Co-Author: Mazie Davis – The Ohio State University
    Co-Author: Kyle S. Sozanski – The Ohio State University
    Co-Author: Stefanie Neupert – University of Otago
    Co-Author: Tappey Jones – Virginia Military Institute
    Co-Author: Rachelle M. Adams – The Ohio State University
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • On-Demand
    Correlation between substrate selection and body color of neotropical katydids (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae)
    Presenting Author: Aaron M. Goodman – American Museum of Natural History
    SysEB10-Minute Paper
  • On-Demand
    Cospeciation and genome evolution in the diverse yet conserved turtle ant gut microbiome
    Presenting Author: Christian Superio Cabuslay – Drexel University
    Co-Author: Yi Hu, n/a – Drexel University
    Co-Author: Maria Mukhanova – Drexel University
    Co-Author: Shreyansh Pradhan – Drexel University
    Co-Author: Emma Kerr – Drexel University
    Co-Author: John T. Wertz – Calvin College
    Co-Author: Jacob Russell – Drexel University
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • On-Demand
    Courtship behavior confusion in two invasive subterranean termite species (Coptotermes)
    Presenting Author: Thomas P. Chouvenc – University Of Florida
    Co-Author: Alain Robert – Université de Paris, iees Paris
    Co-Author: David Sillam-Dussès – University Paris 13, LEEC
    SysEB10-Minute Paper
  • On-Demand
    Cryptic diversity in a seemingly generalist parasitoid
    Presenting Author: Sofia I. Sheikh
    Co-Author: Anna K. Ward – University of Iowa
    Co-Author: Yuanmeng Miles Zhang – University of Edinburgh
    Co-Author: Scott P. Egan – Rice University
    Co-Author: Charles Kelley Davis – Pennsylvania State University
    Co-Author: Eric Ortiz – University of Iowa
    Co-Author: Rebecca Walters – University of Iowa
    Co-Author: Andrew A. Forbes – University of Iowa
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • On-Demand
    Current studies in Central American Anthribidae (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea): The impressive diversity of fungus weevils in Panama
    Presenting Author: K. Samanta Orellana Arévalo – Arizona State University
    Co-Author: H. Barrios – Universidad de Panamá
    SysEB10-Minute Paper
  • On-Demand
    Darkling beetles in a new light: Redefining tribal and generic concepts for the Edrotini (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Pimeliinae).
    Presenting Author: Christopher C. Wirth – Purdue University
    Co-Author: Aaron D. Smith – Purdue University
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • On-Demand
    Describing dietary preferences of pine-hardwood forest ant species in Alabama
    Presenting Author: Victoria E. Spencer – Henderson Collegiate
    Co-Author: Bill D. Wills – Auburn University
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • On-Demand
    Detecting viral co-option of genetic elements within a parasitoid wasp using single-cell transcriptomics
    Presenting Author: Benjamin Luttinen – University of Georgia
    Co-Author: Taylor Harrell – University of Georgia
    Co-Author: Gaelen R. Burke – University of Georgia
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • On-Demand
    Diet, nesting mode, taxonomy and habitat structure the microbial communities associated with Amazonian ants
    Presenting Author: Anais Chanson
    Co-Author: Corrie S. Moreau – Cornell University
    Co-Author: Christophe Duplais – CNRS - EcoFoG
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • On-Demand
    Different techniques to measure color in a temperamental insect group to look at overall color evolution
    Presenting Author: Alyssa M. Pike – Brigham Young University
    Co-Author: Seth M. Bybee – Brigham Young University, Department of Biology
    Co-Author: Julian Renoult – Center for Evolutionary & Functional Ecology
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • On-Demand
    Disentangling the effects of queen and brood presence on worker gene expression in Bombus impatiens
    Presenting Author: Priscila K F Santos – Pennsylvania State University
    Co-Author: Jesse Starkey – Texas A&M University
    Co-Author: David Galbraith – Pennsylvania State University
    Co-Author: Etya Amsalem – Pennsylvania State University
    SysEB10-Minute Paper
  • On-Demand
    Diverse surveillance approaches improve abundance estimates of vector and nuisance mosquito species in northeastern Florida
    Presenting Author: Bryan Victor Giordano – University of Florida
    Co-Author: Lindsay P. Campbell – University of Florida
    SysEB10-Minute Paper
  • On-Demand
    Diversification dynamics and larval feeding patterns of sack-bearer moths (Lepidoptera: Mimallonidae)
    Presenting Author: Ryan Alexander St Laurent (he/him/his) – Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
    Co-Author: Akito Y. Kawahara – Florida Museum Of Natural History
    Co-Author: Ana P. S. Carvalho (she/her/hers) – University of Florida
    Co-Author: Chandra Earl – Bernice P. Bishop Museum
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • On-Demand
    Diversity of ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) in Ranchi suburban habitats of Jharkhand, India
    Presenting Author: Brajkishore Sinha – P K R M College Dhanbad
    Co-Author: Neelam Tiwari – S S M College, Ranchi University, Ranchi, Jharkhand, India
    Co-Author: Supriya K. Singh – Ranchi University
    Co-Author: Rahul Sinha – S S M College, Ranchi University
    Co-Author: Vidya Kumari – P K R M College Dhanbad
    Co-Author: Amita Hembrom, Post Doc – YSM College
    SysEB10-Minute Paper
  • On-Demand
    Do inquiline Tamalia gall aphids outpace their host aphids during development within the gall?
    Presenting Author: Donald G. Miller, III (he/him/his) – California State University - Chico
    SysEB10-Minute Paper
  • On-Demand
    Effects of developmental stage, cold acclimation and diet on the cold tolerance of three species of Cryptolestes (Coleoptera: Laemophloeidae)
    Presenting Author: Lavanya Ganesan
    Co-Author: Fuji Jian, PhD, PEng – University of Manitoba
    Co-Author: Digvir Jayas – University of Manitoba
    Co-Author: Paul G. Fields – Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • On-Demand
    Effects of fire and thinning disturbance on biodiversity of wild bee communities within the Colorado Front Range
    Presenting Author: Ryleigh Gelles – Colorado State University
    Co-Author: Ryleigh Gelles – Colorado State University
    Co-Author: Seth Seth Davis – Colorado State University
    Co-Author: Boris Kondratieff – Colorado State University
    Co-Author: Camille Stevens-Rumann – Colorado State University
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • On-Demand
    Entomophagy Q: Student perceptions of insect consumption using Q methodology
    Presenting Author: Melissa Lynn Reed – Oklahoma State University
    Co-Author: W Wyatt Hoback – Oklahoma State University
    Co-Author: Angel Riggs – Oklahoma State University
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • On-Demand
    Environmental drivers of aquatic insect trait variation in Ohio streams
    Presenting Author: Rebecca Czaja
    Co-Author: Lauren Pintor – The Ohio State University
    Co-Author: Mazeika Sullivan – The Ohio State University
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • On-Demand
    Estimating species diversity, abundance and range expansions of Carabidae within the National Ecological Observatory Network
    Presenting Author: Katherine Elizabeth LeVan – National Ecological Observatory Network
    SysEB10-Minute Paper
  • On-Demand
    Evaluation of life history traits and genetic population demography of Yezoterpnosia nigricosta in Japan
    Presenting Author: Keisuke Yumoto
    Co-Author: Takashi Kanbe – Hokkaido university
    Co-Author: Akane Kato – University of Tsukuba
    Co-Author: Tomohiro Kando – University of Tsukuba
    Co-Author: Ririko Koido – University of Tsukuba
    Co-Author: Shingo Kaneko – Fukushima University
    Co-Author: Yoko Saito – The University of Tokyo
    Co-Author: Michael P. Nobis – Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL
    Co-Author: Yoshiaki Tsuda – University of Tsukuba
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
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    Evolution and persistence of fragmented mitogenomes in parasitic lice
    Presenting Author: Andrew Sweet – Arkansas State University
    Co-Author: Stephen Cameron – Purdue University
    SysEB10-Minute Paper
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    Evolutionary history and phylogenetic affinities of endogean Anillinus (Coleoptera: Carabidae) in the southern Appalachian Region
    Presenting Author: Curt Harden – Clemson University
    SysEB10-Minute Paper
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    Examining the public’s awareness of bee (Hymenoptera: Apoidae: Anthophila) conservation in Canada
    Presenting Author: Nyssa van Vierssen Trip
    Co-Author: Sheila Colla (she/her/hers) – York University
    Co-Author: Beatrice Olivastri – CEO, Friends of the Earth, Canada
    SysEB10-Minute Paper
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    Extraordinarily precise nematode sex ratios: Adaptive responses to vanishingly rare mating options
    Presenting Author: Justin M. Van Goor (he/him/his) – University of Maryland
    Co-Author: Edward Allen Herre – Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
    Co-Author: John D. Nason – Iowa State University
    SysEB10-Minute Paper
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    First draft genome assembly of the bombardier beetle, Brachinus elongatulus
    Presenting Author: Adam Maxwell Rork
    Co-Author: Kylie Bocklund – The Pennsylvania State University
    Co-Author: Davide Bergamaschi – University of Arizona
    Co-Author: Wendy Moore – University of Arizona
    Co-Author: Tanya Renner – Pennsylvania State University
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
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    Flies and beetles associated with barnacles in Canada, USA, and Japan
    Presenting Author: Joel Gibson – Royal British Columbia Museum
    Co-Author: Henry Choong – Royal BC Museum
    SysEB10-Minute Paper
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    Foraging ecology is linked to morphological variation of the eye across ant lineages
    Presenting Author: Chloe Maddison Jelley – Cornell University
    Co-Author: Phillip Barden – New Jersey Institute of Technology
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
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    “Frass in the class”: A model for fostering interest in the natural world through insect rearing in the classroom
    Presenting Author: Amanda Markee – Florida Museum of Natural History
    Co-Author: Hailey Dansby – University of Florida
    Co-Author: Rebeccah Messcher – University of Florida
    Co-Author: Emily Hernandez – University of Florida
    Co-Author: Akito Y. Kawahara – Florida Museum Of Natural History
    Co-Author: Caroline Storer – University of Florida
    SysEB10-Minute Paper
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    From inquilines to gall inducers: Genomic signature of a life-style transition in Synergus gall wasps
    Presenting Author: Erik Gobbo
    Co-Author: Jack Hearn – Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
    Co-Author: Nicolas Lartillot – Université de Lyon
    Co-Author: Graham Stone – University of Edinburgh
    Co-Author: yoshihisa Abe – Kyushu University
    Co-Author: Christopher Wheat – Stockholm University
    Co-Author: Tatsuya Ide – National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo
    Co-Author: Fredrik Ronquist – Swedish Museum of Natural History
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
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    From Snodgrass to a modern encyclopedia of insect anatomy, with an ontology of the insect skeletomuscular system in-between
    Presenting Author: Istvan Miko – University of New Hampshire
    Co-Author: Jennifer C. Girón – Museum of Texas Tech University
    Co-Author: Luis Antonio Gonzales Montana – Universidad Nacional de Colombia
    SysEB10-Minute Paper
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    Genetic variation and mating behavior over time in the social wasp Vespula maculifrons
    Presenting Author: Carl Dyson – Georgia Institute of Technology
    Co-Author: Michael Goodisman – Georgia Tech
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
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    Genome editing in mosquitoes reveals evolutionary handover of regulatory gene function
    Presenting Author: Alys Jarvela – University of Maryland
    Co-Author: Leslie Pick (she/her/hers) – University of Maryland
    Co-Author: Catherine Trelstad – University of Maryland College Park
    SysEB10-Minute Paper
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    Genome-wide single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) suggest patterns of codivergence between fungus-growing ants (Tribe Attini) and their fungal cultivars
    Presenting Author: Katherine Beigel – University of Texas at Tyler
    Co-Author: Jon Nicholas Seal – University of Texas at Tyler
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
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    Genomic characterization of endosymbionts found in the bacteriomes of Brazilian membracids
    Presenting Author: McKinlee M. Salazar – Texas Tech University
    Co-Author: Monica Pupo – University of São Paulo
    Co-Author: Amanda Brown – Texas Tech University
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
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    Global patterns in 500 years of beetle invasions
    Presenting Author: Andrew M M. Liebhold – USDA Forest Service
    Co-Author: Rebecca M. Turner – Scion (New Zealand Forest Research Institute)
    Co-Author: Rachael Blake – National Socio-environmental Synthesis Center
    Co-Author: Cleo Bertelsmeier – Université de Lausanne
    Co-Author: Eckehard G. Brockerhoff – Swiss Federal Research Institute
    Co-Author: Helen Nahrung – University of the Sunshine Coast
    Co-Author: Deepa Pureswaran – Canadian Forest Service
    Co-Author: Alain Roques – INRA
    Co-Author: Hanno Seebens – Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre
    Co-Author: Takehiko Yamanaka – National Agriculture and Food Research Organization (NARO)
    SysEB10-Minute Paper
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    Group living confers thermal and physiological benefits in winter nests of a facultatively social bee
    Presenting Author: Madeleine Ostwald – University of California Santa Barbara
    Co-Author: William Hillery – Arizona State University
    Co-Author: Jon F. Harrison – Arizona State University
    Co-Author: Jennifer H. Fewell – Arizona State University
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
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    Harnessing endosymbiont diversity in Australian aphids for agricultural pest control
    Presenting Author: Perran Ross
    Co-Author: Qiong Yang – Bio21 Institute and the University of Melbourne
    Co-Author: Xinyue Gu – Bio21 Institute and the University of Melbourne
    Co-Author: Katie Robinson – Bio21 Institute and the University of Melbourne
    Co-Author: Alex Gill – Bio21 Institute and the University of Melbourne
    Co-Author: Ary Hoffmann – Bio21 Institute and the University of Melbourne
    SysEB10-Minute Paper
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    Heat waves increase larval mortality and delay development in the solitary bee Osmia lignaria (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae)
    Presenting Author: Grace Genevieve Melone – University of Wisconsin
    Co-Author: Neal M. Williams – University of California
    Co-Author: Clara Stuligross – University of California, Riverside
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
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    Hidden in the plumage: Exploring signals of geographical differentiation in two genera of mites on eastern bluebirds from mainland and island regions
    Presenting Author: Andrew Cook – University of Alberta
    Co-Author: Renee Carleton – Berry College
    Co-Author: Heather Proctor – University of Alberta
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
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    Highly contiguous, phased genome assemblies generated from PacBio HiFi sequencing shed light on the genomics basis of silk in caddisflies (Insecta: Trichoptera)
    Presenting Author: Paul Bryan Frandsen – Department of Plant and Wildlife Sciences, Brigham Young University
    Co-Author: Jacqueline Heckenhauer – LOEWE Centre for Translational Biodiversity Genomics
    Co-Author: Akito Y. Kawahara – Florida Museum Of Natural History
    Co-Author: Steffen Pauls – Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum
    SysEB10-Minute Paper
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    Honey bees (Apis cerana) signal attack by giant hornets (Vespa soror) using novel acoustic signals
    Presenting Author: Hannah Kernen – Purdue University
    Co-Author: Heather R. Mattila – Wellesley College
    Co-Author: Gard Otis – School of Environmental Sciences, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, N1G 2W1, Canada
    Co-Author: Lien Nguyen – Insect Ecology Department, Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources, Vietnamese Academy of Science and Technology, 18 Hoang Quoc Viet Road, Nghia Do, Cau Giay, Hanoi, Vietnam
    Co-Author: Hanh Duc Pham – Bee Research Centre, National Institute of Animal Sciences, Thuy Phuong, Tu Liem North, Hanoi, Vietnam
    Co-Author: Olivia Knight – School of Environmental Sciences, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, N1G 2W1, Canada
    Co-Author: Erica Maul – Department of Biological Sciences, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, 02481, USA
    Co-Author: McKenna Montminy – Department of Biological Sciences, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, 02481, USA
    Co-Author: Patty Benitez-Lomi – Department of Biological Sciences, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, 02481, USA
    Co-Author: Ngoc T. Phan (she/her/hers) – University of Arkansas
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
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    Host-parasite-endosymbiont relationships: twisted-wing insects provide a new twist to Wolbachia infections in Australian tephritid fruit flies
    Co-Author: Jennifer L. Morrow – Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University
    Co-Author: Shannon Close – Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries
    Co-Author: Jane E. Royer – Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries
    Co-Author: Markus Riegler – Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
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    How do aphids detect approaching coccinellid predators?
    Presenting Author: Moshe Gish – University of Haifa
    SysEB10-Minute Paper
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    How many mates is enough? Examining the mysteries of multiple mating in the honey bee Apis mellifera L.
    Presenting Author: Katherine Lynn Hagan
    Co-Author: Keith Delaplane – University of Georgia
    Co-Author: Lewis James Bartlett (any) – University of Georgia
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
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    How old are dragonflies and damselflies? Odonata (Insecta) transcriptomics resolve familial relationships
    Presenting Author: Manpreet Kaur Kohli – Baruch College, City University of New York
    SysEB10-Minute Paper
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    Hymenoptera of the Kishenehn Formation: A 46-million-year-old Lagerstätten
    Presenting Author: Alan B. Munro
    Co-Author: Matthew buffington – Systematic Entomology Lab, USDA/ARS
    Co-Author: Dale Greenwalt – National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
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    Identifying and accounting for ascertainment bias in the Ae. aegypti SNP-chip using whole genome sequencing
    Presenting Author: Andres Gomez-Palacio
    Co-Author: Andrea Gloria-Soria – Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station
    Co-Author: John Soghigian – University of Calgary
    Co-Author: Jeffrey Powell – Yale Univ
    SysEB10-Minute Paper
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    Individual versus collective assessment of food resources in Temnothorax ants
    Presenting Author: Zachary Joseph Shaffer
    Co-Author: Stephen Pratt – Arizona State University
    SysEB10-Minute Paper
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    Indolergic odorant receptors form an ancient and functionally conserved Dipteran gene lineage
    Presenting Author: Jonathan D. Bohbot – The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
    Co-Author: R Pitts – Baylor University
    Co-Author: Shan Ju Shi – Baylor University
    SysEB10-Minute Paper
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    Insight into the routes of Wolbachia transmission: Myrmecophily and horizontal transmission
    Presenting Author: Shu Ping Tseng – National Taiwan University
    Co-Author: Chow-Yang Lee, BCE – University of California-Riverside
    Co-Author: Chin-Cheng Scotty Yang – Kyoto University
    Co-Author: Tsuyoshi Yoshimura – Kyoto University
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
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    Insights into the evolution and molecular underpinnings of locust phase polyphenism
    Presenting Author: Bert Foquet – Illinois State University, School of Biological Sciences
    Co-Author: Adrian A. Castellanos – Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies
    Co-Author: Hojun Song – Texas A&M University
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
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    Insights into the phylogeny and biogeography of the cleptoparasitic bee genus Nomada
    Presenting Author: Katherine Akemi Odanaka – York University
    Co-Author: Michael G. Branstetter (he/him/his) – USDA-ARS Pollinating Insects Research Unit
    Co-Author: Sandra Rehan (she/her/hers) – York University
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
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    Integrative species delimitation reveals cryptic diversity in the southern Appalachian Antrodiaetus unicolor (Araneae: Antrodiaetidae) species complex
    Presenting Author: Lacie Newton – American Museum of Natural History
    Co-Author: Jason E. Bond – University of California Davis
    Co-Author: James Starrett – University of California, Davis
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
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    Interactions among climate, urbanization, and life-history traits determine the timing of adult insect activity across broad spatial and taxonomic scales
    Presenting Author: Michael W. Belitz – University of Florida
    Co-Author: Vijay Barve – Florida Museum of Natural History
    Co-Author: Joshua Doby – Florida Museum of Natural History
    Co-Author: Elise Larsen (she/they) – Georgetown University
    Co-Author: Robert Guralnick – Florida Museum of Natural History
    Co-Author: Maggie Hantak – Florida Museum of Natural History
    Co-Author: Jessica Oswald – Florida Museum of Natural History
    Co-Author: Neeka Sewnath – Florida Museum of Natural History
    Co-Author: Mitch Walters – Florida Museum of Natural History
    Co-Author: Brian Stucky – Florida Museum of Natural History
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
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    Introduced and native bumble bee species respond differently to floral resources, land cover and trace lead (Pb) concentration along a gradient of urbanization
    Presenting Author: Jennifer A. Lipka – The University of British Columbia
    Co-Author: Juli Carrillo – The University of British Columbia
    Co-Author: Dominique Weis – The University of British Columbia
    Co-Author: Katelyn Hengel
    Co-Author: Kate Smith
    Co-Author: Matthew Mitchell – The University of British Columbia
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
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    Investigating the effect of host characteristics on ectoparasite co-occurrence on two species of bats in Atlantic Canada
    Presenting Author: Alexandra Sauk – University of Waterloo
    Co-Author: Hugh G. Broders, PhD ecology – University of Waterloo
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
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    Join us in our efforts to discover new species of prehistoric insects
    Presenting Author: Maximilian G. Pankowski – Rockville, Maryland
    Co-Author: Madeline V. Pankowski – Rockville High School
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
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    Just like you, invasive ants diet too: Calcium availability enhances colony fitness in tawny crazy ants
    Presenting Author: Ryan William Reihart
    Co-Author: Chelse Prather – University of Dayton
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
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    Leaping larvae: Kinematics of a novel jumping behavior in the lined flat bark beetle Laemophloeus biguttatus (Coleoptera: Laemophloeidae)
    Presenting Author: Joshua Caleb Gibson – University of Illinois
    Co-Author: Ainsley Seago – Carnegie Museum of Natural History
    Co-Author: Adrian A. Smith – North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences
    Co-Author: Matthew Bertone (he/him/his) – North Carolina State University
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
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    Life history comparison of bee colonies in urban and rural apiaries
    Presenting Author: Aixa E. Ramirez-Lluch – University of Puerto Rico
    Co-Author: Yilmaz Koru – University of Puerto Rico
    Co-Author: Fanfan Noel – University of Puerto Rico
    Co-Author: Gabriel Valedón – University of Puerto Rico
    Co-Author: Maryangeli Calderón – University of Puerto Rico
    Co-Author: Tugrul Giray – University of Puerto Rico
    SysEB10-Minute Paper
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    Localization of bacterial communities within gut compartments across Cephalotes turtle ants
    Presenting Author: Peter Joseph Flynn – University of Chicago
    Co-Author: Corrie S. Moreau – Cornell University
    Co-Author: Jacob Russell – Drexel University
    Co-Author: Jon Sanders – Harvard University
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
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    Macroinvertebrate richness and density increase over time with rebounding stream pH – a case for recovery?
    Presenting Author: Kelly McIntyre (she/her/hers) – Virginia Tech
    Co-Author: Sally Entrekin – Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
    Co-Author: Kelly Maloney – US Geological Survey
    Co-Author: Craig Snyder – US Geological Survey
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
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    Magnitude, richness and uniqueness: A global analysis of lestid damselfly (Insecta: Odonata) records in GBIF
    Presenting Author: Jeremy A. Miller – Naturalis
    Co-Author: Linda van der Jagt – Naturalis Biodiversity Center
    Co-Author: F. Andres Rivera-Quiroz – Naturalis Biodiversity Center
    Co-Author: Hector Ortega-Salas – Naturalis Biodiversity Center
    SysEB10-Minute Paper
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    Making identifications replicable in entomology and beyond
    Presenting Author: Spencer K. Monckton – York University
    Co-Author: Sharan Johal – York University
    Co-Author: Laurence Packer (he/him/his) – York University
    SysEB10-Minute Paper
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    Managing corpses from different castes in the eastern subterranean termite, Reticulitermes flavipes (Blattodea: Rhinotermitidae)
    Presenting Author: Jizhe Shi – University of Kentucky
    Co-Author: Chi Zhang – University of Kentucky
    Co-Author: Sirui Huang – University of Kentucky
    Co-Author: Austin Merchant – University of Kentucky
    Co-Author: Qian Sun – Louisiana State University
    Co-Author: Chuan Zhou – Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Co-Author: Kenneth Haynes – University of Kentucky
    Co-Author: Xuguo Zhou – University of Kentucky
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
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    Maternal effects on offspring development and survival in the alfalfa leafcutting bee, Megachile rotundata
    Presenting Author: Makenna Johnson
    Co-Author: Natalie Boyle – The Pennsylvania State University
    Co-Author: Theresa Pitts-Singer – USDA-ARS
    Co-Author: Karen Kapheim – Utah State University
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
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    Mating preferences drive the population dynamics of Euschistus heros (Fabricius) (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) in Brazil
    Presenting Author: Frederico Hickmann – University of Sao Paulo
    Co-Author: Erick Cordeiro – Universidade de São Paulo
    Co-Author: Patrícia Soares – University of São Paulo
    Co-Author: Cristiano Schwertner – Federal University of São Paulo
    Co-Author: Alberto Soares Corrêa – University of Sao Paulo
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
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    Mechanisms of life history tradeoffs in a socially flexible bee
    Presenting Author: Kate K. Hunter – Utah State University
    Co-Author: Karen Kapheim – Utah State University
    SysEB10-Minute Paper
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    Mite – be more interesting than you think: the story of rose rosette emaravirus vector
    Presenting Author: Tobiasz Druciarek – University of Arkansas
    Co-Author: Mariusz Lewandowski – Warsaw University of Life Sciences - SGGW
    Co-Author: Daisy Stainton – University of Arkansas - Fayetteville
    Co-Author: Ioannis E. Tzanetakis – University of Arkansas
    SysEB10-Minute Paper
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    Modeling the potential distribution of the invasive little fire ant, Wasmannia auropunctata, in the southeastern US
    Presenting Author: Virginia Rose Seagal (she/her/hers) – University of Florida
    Co-Author: Andrea Lucky – University of Florida
    Co-Author: Robert Guralnick – Florida Museum of Natural History
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
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    Molecular characterization of Haemaphysalis species and a molecular genetic key for the identification of Haemaphysalis of North America
    Presenting Author: Alec T. Thompson – Southeastern Cooperative Wildlife Disease Study, Department of Population Health, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia
    Co-Author: Kristen Dominguez – University of Southern Florida
    Co-Author: Seth White – University of Georgia
    Co-Author: David Shaw – University of Georgia
    Co-Author: Stacey L. Vigil – University of Georgia
    Co-Author: Mark G. Ruder – University of Georgia
    Co-Author: Michael Yabsley – Southeastern Cooperative Wildlife Disease Study, Department of Population Health, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
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    Molecular identification of Rhagoletis cerasi (Diptera: Tephritidae) in North America
    Presenting Author: Norman B. Barr – USDA-APHIS
    SysEB10-Minute Paper
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    Molurina and Phanerotomeina (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Sepidiini) revisited: Discovery of new genera highlights delimitation problems between the subtribes
    Presenting Author: Olivia M. Gearner – Purdue University
    Co-Author: Marcin Kaminski – Museum and Institute of Zoology - Polish Academy of Sciences
    Co-Author: Kojun Kanda – USDA-ARS Systematic Entomolog Lab
    Co-Author: Kali L. Swichtenberg (she/her/hers) – Arizona State University
    Co-Author: Aaron D. Smith – Purdue University
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
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    Multiple origins of obligate nematode and insect symbionts by members of a newly characterized bacterial clade
    Presenting Author: Vincent Martinson – University of New Mexico
    Co-Author: Ryan M. Gawryluk – University of Victoria
    Co-Author: Brent E. Gowen – University of Victoria
    Co-Author: Caitlin I. Curtis – University of Victoria
    Co-Author: John Jaenike – University of Rochester
    Co-Author: Steve J. Perlman – University of Victoria
    SysEB10-Minute Paper
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    Museomics and morphology help to decode the evolutionary history of noctuid moths
    Presenting Author: Jose I. Martinez – Florida Museum of Natural History
    Co-Author: Jacqueline Y. Miller – McGuire Center for Lepidoptera & Biodiversity
    Co-Author: Christian Schmidt – Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada
    Co-Author: Akito Y. Kawahara – Florida Museum Of Natural History
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
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    Museum specimens reveal the genomics of extinct populations of Aedes aegypti in the Mediterranean
    Presenting Author: Andrea Gloria-Soria – Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station
    Co-Author: John Soghigian – University of Calgary
    Co-Author: Jeffrey Powell – Yale Univ
    SysEB10-Minute Paper
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    Myrmecology has majority of females only within the colony: Insights into female representation and the arrival of children in the academy and the aggravation of injustices due to the pandemic
    Presenting Author: Manuela De Oliveira Ramalho – Cornell University
    Co-Author: Corrie S. Moreau – Cornell University
    SysEB10-Minute Paper
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    Native aphidophagous coccinellids in alfalfa fields are favored by the amount of natural cover in the landscape and modulate the diversity of their communities
    Presenting Author: Audrey Grez – Universidad de Chile
    Co-Author: Tania Zaviezo – Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
    Co-Author: Fernando Casanoves – CATIE –Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza
    Co-Author: Romina Oberti – Facultad de Ciencias Veterinarias y Pecuarias, Universidad de Chile
    Co-Author: Patricio Pliscoff – Departamento de Ecología e Instituto de Geografía, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
    SysEB10-Minute Paper
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    Native bees of Texas: Evaluating a public engagement initiative in Central Texas
    Presenting Author: Laurel A. Trevino – The University of Texas at Austin
    Co-Author: Shalene Jha – University of Texas at Austin
    Co-Author: Shelly Engelman, Ph.D., SACS – Custom EduEval LLC
    SysEB10-Minute Paper
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    Nest preferences of cavity-nesting bees of greater Portland, OR
    Presenting Author: Stefanie K. Steele – Portland State University
    Co-Author: Susan E. Masta – Portland State Universtiy
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
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    Nested complexity and trench-warfare dynamics: Field variation in a bacteriophage of an aphid endosymbiont
    Presenting Author: Melissa Margaret Carpenter – Drexel University
    Co-Author: Stephanie Weldon – University of Montana NASA Astrobiological Institute
    Co-Author: Andrew Smith – Rodale Institute
    Co-Author: Linyao Peng – Drexel University
    Co-Author: Jonah Joffe – Drexel University
    Co-Author: Kerry M. Oliver – University of Georgia
    Co-Author: Jacob Russell – Drexel University
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
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    Neuroanatomical differentiation supports mate location differences in dimorphic male bees, Centris pallidaand Amegilla dawsoni
    Presenting Author: Meghan Barrett (she/her/hers) – California State University Dominguez Hills
    Co-Author: Stephen Buchmann – University of Arizona
    Co-Author: Sean O'Donnell – Drexel University
    SysEB10-Minute Paper
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    New parasitoids of bark beetles (Curculionidae: Scolytinae) and their life histories in Hawaiʻi
    Presenting Author: David Honsberger
    Co-Author: Mark G. Wright – University of Hawaii At Manoa
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
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    New spider wasp (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae) phylogeny with use of ultra-conserved elements
    Presenting Author: Brenna L. Decker – Utah State University
    Co-Author: James P. Pitts – Utah State University
    Co-Author: Emily Sadler-Pitts – Utah State University
    Co-Author: Akira Shimizu – Tokyo Metropolitan University
    Co-Author: Christian Schmid-Egger – Ökoteam Institute For Animal Ecology And Landscape Planning
    Co-Author: Juanita Rodriguez – CSIRO
    Co-Author: Cecilia Waichert – Universidade Vila Velha
    Co-Author: Bryan Danforth – Cornell University
    Co-Author: Bonnie B. Blaimer – Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
    Co-Author: Sean G. Brady – Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
    SysEB10-Minute Paper
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    No evidence that gut bacteria impose fitness costs on butterflies, even under starvation conditions
    Presenting Author: Alison Ravenscraft (she/her/hers) – University of Texas at Arlington
    Co-Author: Nicole Kish – University of South Carolina
    Co-Author: Kabir Peay – Stanford University
    Co-Author: Carol L. Boggs – University of South Carolina
    SysEB10-Minute Paper
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    Nutritional state of Spalangia cameroni
    Presenting Author: Elizabeth Taylor – Northern Illinois University
    Co-Author: Bethia H. King – Northern Illinois University
    Co-Author: Riddhi Patel – Northern Illinois University
    Co-Author: Edwin R. Burgess IV, IV – University of Florida, Department of Entomology and Nematology
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
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    Old World braconid wasps discovered in tropical forests in Costa Rica (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Cardiochilinae: Bohayella)
    Presenting Author: Ilgoo Kang (he/him/his) – Louisiana State University
    Co-Author: Scott Shaw – University Of Wyoming
    Co-Author: Nathan Lord – Louisiana State University
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
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    Olfactory system morphology suggests colony size drives trait evolution in dolichoderine ants (Formicidae: Dolichoderinae)
    Presenting Author: R Keating Godfrey
    Co-Author: Caleb Givens – Morehouse College
    Co-Author: Wulfila Gronenberg, Ph.D. – University of Arizona
    SysEB10-Minute Paper
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    One flew over the pitcher plant: The first phylogeny of the pitcher plant fly genus Fletcherimyia, with noteworthy updates on fly-host relationships
    Presenting Author: Peter Kann – Florida Atlantic University
    Co-Author: Trip Lamb – East Carolina University
    Co-Author: Michael J. Brewer (he/him/his) – Texas A&M AgriLife Research
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
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    Online digitization of North American solifugae
    Presenting Author: Felix Channiago
    Co-Author: Paula E. Cushing – Denver Museum of Nature & Science
    SysEB10-Minute Paper
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    Optimization of raiding preference relative to temperature and host defensive capability by the kidnapper ant Temnothorax americanus
    Presenting Author: Nolan Charles Novotny – University of Manitoba
    Co-Author: James F. Hare – Department of Biological Sciences, University of Manitoba
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
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    Patterns of divergence between fall armyworm strains: New insights from genomic and behavioral studies
    Presenting Author: Ashley E. Tessnow – Texas A&M University
    Co-Author: Greg Sword – Texas A&M University, Department of Entomology
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
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    Phage exchange in Hamiltonella defensa, a protective symbiont of aphids
    Presenting Author: Vilasben A. Patel – University of Georgia
    Co-Author: Nicole L. Lynn-Bell – University of Georgia
    Co-Author: Germain Chevignon – Ifremer
    Co-Author: Michael R. Strand – University of Georgia
    Co-Author: Jacob Russell – Drexel University
    Co-Author: Kerry M. Oliver – University of Georgia
    SysEB10-Minute Paper
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    Phylogenetic assessment of the lichen-feeding tiger moth subtribe Cisthenina (Erebidae: Arctiinae: Lithosiini) by combining anchored hybrid enrichment data with traditional loci
    Presenting Author: Makani L. Fisher – Purdue University
    Co-Author: Nicolas J. Dowdy – Milwaukee Public Museum
    Co-Author: Alan R. Lemmon – Florida State University
    Co-Author: Emily M. Lemmon – Florida State University
    Co-Author: Andrew Sweet – Arkansas State University
    Co-Author: Stephen Cameron – Purdue University
    Co-Author: Jennifer Zaspel – Milwaukee Public Museum
    SysEB10-Minute Paper
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    Phylogenetic diversity of bees in tall-grass prairies
    Presenting Author: Cameron Coles
    Co-Author: Paulina Mena – Central College
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
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    Phylogenetic framework for Lestidae (Odonata) based on three genes with focus on the systematic position and status of Chalcolestes Kennedy
    Presenting Author: Thomas J. Simonsen – Natural History Museum
    Co-Author: Marcus Glahder – University of Copenhagen
    Co-Author: Marie Djernæs – Natural History Museum Aarhus
    Co-Author: Kent Olsen – Natural History Museum Aarhus
    Co-Author: Thomas Pape – Natural History Museum of Denmark
    SysEB10-Minute Paper
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    Phylogenetic relationships of the euchromiine tiger moths (Erebidae: Arctiinae: Arctiini)
    Presenting Author: Melissa S. Sisson – Middle Georgia University
    Co-Author: Katie Bierstedt – University of North Dakota
    Co-Author: Rebecca B. Simmons – University of North Dakota
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
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    Phylogenomic analysis sheds light on the evolutionary pathways towards acoustic communication in Orthoptera
    Presenting Author: Hojun Song – Texas A&M University
    Co-Author: Olivier Béthoux – CR2P (Centre de Recherche en Paléontologie – Paris), MNHN – CNRS – Sorbonne Université, Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle
    Co-Author: Seunggwan Shin – Seoul National University
    Co-Author: Sabrina Simon – Wageningen University and Research
    SysEB10-Minute Paper
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    Phylogenomic species delimitation in the ants of the Temnothorax salvini group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): An integrative approach
    Presenting Author: Matthew McIvor Prebus – Arizona State University
    SysEB10-Minute Paper
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    Phylogeny and evolution of large body size in the rove beetle genus Phlaeopterus Motschulsky, 1853 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Omaliinae: Anthophagini)
    Presenting Author: Derek Sikes – University of Alaska Museum
    Co-Author: Logan Mullen – University of Alaska Fairbanks
    SysEB10-Minute Paper
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    Phylogeny of an ancient water beetle lineage sheds light on 70 million years of Neotropical biogeography (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae).
    Presenting Author: Rachel N. Neff – University of Kansas
    Co-Author: Andrew E. Short – University of Kansas
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
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    Phylogeny of the desert darkling beetles (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Pimeliinae) and its implications for biogeography and taxonomy within the subfamily
    Presenting Author: Aaron D. Smith – Purdue University
    Co-Author: Marcin Kaminski – Museum and Institute of Zoology - Polish Academy of Sciences
    Co-Author: Kojun Kanda – USDA-ARS Systematic Entomolog Lab
    Co-Author: Olivia M. Gearner – Purdue University
    Co-Author: Kali L. Swichtenberg (she/her/hers) – Arizona State University
    Co-Author: Christopher C. Wirth – Purdue University
    Co-Author: Ryan Lumen – Purdue University
    SysEB10-Minute Paper
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    Phytophagous beetles diversified after acquiring microbial genes for plant cell wall digestion
    Presenting Author: Duane McKenna – University of Memphis
    Co-Author: Seunggwan Shin – Seoul National University
    SysEB10-Minute Paper
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    Planthopper perception: Identification and evolution of chemosensory proteins from fulgoroid transcriptome data (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha)
    Presenting Author: Rachel Skinner – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Co-Author: Kim O. Walden – University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign
    Co-Author: Christopher H. Dietrich – Illinois Natural History Survey
    Co-Author: Kevin P. Johnson – Illinois Natural History Survey
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
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    Population genomics provides insight into potential adaptive evolution in an invasive ant
    Presenting Author: Chih-Chi Lee
    Co-Author: Chin-Cheng Scotty Yang – Kyoto University
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
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    Preliminary phylogeny of Astylopsis Casey (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) species and patterns of host plant use
    Presenting Author: Ellen Marie Camerato – Michigan State University
    Co-Author: Anthony I. Cognato – Michigan State University
    SysEB10-Minute Paper
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    Projected climate change amplifies non-native bee invasion in Hawai'i
    Presenting Author: Jesse Anjin Tabor
    Co-Author: Jonathan Berenguer Uhuad Koch – USDA-ARS-PWA-PIRU
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
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    Prolonged exposure to competitor cues alters behavior in eastern subterranean termite, Reticulitermes flavipes
    Presenting Author: Austin Merchant – University of Kentucky
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
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    Quantification of 4-year-early periodical cicadas in the Chicago suburbs
    Presenting Author: Carl Strang
    SysEB10-Minute Paper
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    Quantifying the morphological similarity between social parasites and their hosts
    Presenting Author: Nitya Shah
    Co-Author: Phillip Barden – New Jersey Institute of Technology
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
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    Recombination mapping of the Brazilian stingless bee Frieseomelitta varia confirms high recombination in social hymenoptera
    Presenting Author: Prashant Waiker – University of North Carolina
    Co-Author: Fabiano P. Abreu – University of São Paulo
    Co-Author: Danielle Luna-Lucena – University of São Paulo
    Co-Author: Flávia C. Freitas – Universidade Federal de Alfenas
    Co-Author: Zilá L. Simões – University of São Paulo
    Co-Author: Olav Rueppell – UNCG
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
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    Repeated evolution of morphological characters in ecomorphs of avian feather lice
    Presenting Author: Stanislav Kolencik (he/him/his) – University of Nevada, Reno
    Co-Author: Edward L. Stanley – Florida Museum of Natural History
    Co-Author: Kevin P. Johnson – Illinois Natural History Survey
    Co-Author: Julie M. M. Allen – University of Nevada
    SysEB10-Minute Paper
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    Siblings near and far: Population genetics of a new Panamanian fungus-growing ant (Formicidae: Attini: Mycetomoellerius)
    Presenting Author: Cody Raul Cardenas – The Ohio State University
    Co-Author: Andrew J. Mularo – College of Science, University of Biological Sciences, Purdue University
    Co-Author: Andreas Chavez – The Ohio State University
    Co-Author: Rachelle M. Adams – The Ohio State University
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
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    Skeletomuscular system of Andrenidae: The male genitalia of Andrena and Calliopsis
    Presenting Author: Nathan Stearns – University of New Hampshire
    Co-Author: Katja C. Seltmann (she/her/hers) – University of California Santa Barbara
    Co-Author: Istvan Miko – University of New Hampshire
    SysEB10-Minute Paper
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    Slicing the Gordian knot: A phylogenetic analysis of the subfamilial relationships of Aphelinidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea).
    Presenting Author: Robert Luke Kresslein – University of California, Riverside
    Co-Author: John Heraty – University of California, Riverside
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
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    Social environment and sibling cooperation in a small carpenter bee
    Presenting Author: Jesse Leon Huisken – Rehan Lab
    Co-Author: Sandra Rehan (she/her/hers) – York University
    SysEB10-Minute Paper
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    Sociality impacts brain resource allocation in spiders
    Presenting Author: VIRGINIA I. CAPONERA – Drexel University
    Co-Author: Meghan Barrett (she/her/hers) – California State University Dominguez Hills
    Co-Author: Sean O'Donnell – Drexel University
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
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    Spatial differences in Jalysus infecting Wolbachia strains
    Presenting Author: Patrick Thomas Stillson – University of Texas at Arlington
    Co-Author: Alison Ravenscraft (she/her/hers) – University of Texas at Arlington
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
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    Spring arthropod roadkill and roadside habitat for the monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus; Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) in Texas
    Presenting Author: James L. Tracy – Texas A&M University
    Co-Author: Robert N. Coulson – Texas A&M University
    SysEB10-Minute Paper
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    Statewide community science survey of Minnesota bumble bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Bombus) and stem-nesting bees (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae) lead to expanded known occupancy of an endangered species and resulted in newly recorded bivoltinism and state species records
    Presenting Author: Colleen Satyshur – University of Wisconsin
    Co-Author: Britt Forsberg – University of Minnesota
    Co-Author: Elaine C. Evans (she/they) – University of Minnesota
    Co-Author: Thea Evans – University of Minnesota
    Co-Author: Robert B. Blair – University of Minnesota, Department of Fisheries, Wildlife and Conservation Biology
    SysEB10-Minute Paper
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    Status assessment of the regal fritillary (Speyeria idalia) in Missouri
    Presenting Author: Steven Buback
    SysEB10-Minute Paper
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    Strain variation shapes endosymbiont community structure and, possibly, transmission rates in the pea aphid
    Presenting Author: Linyao Peng – Drexel University
    Co-Author: Danielle Rock – Drexel University
    Co-Author: Andrew Smith – Rodale Institute
    Co-Author: Kerry M. Oliver – University of Georgia
    Co-Author: Jacob Russell – Drexel University
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
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    Strong nodal support in molecular phylogeny allows investigation into the evolution of traits in thrips (Thysanoptera: Paraneoptera)
    Presenting Author: David A. Stanford-Beale – Purdue University
    Co-Author: Stephen Cameron – Purdue University
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
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    Studying insects traversing large obstacles using a novel treadmill
    Presenting Author: Ratan Othayoth – Johns Hopkins University
    Co-Author: Blake Strebel – Johns Hopkins University
    Co-Author: Yuanfeng Han – Johns Hopkins University
    Co-Author: Evains Francois – Johns Hopkins University
    Co-Author: Chen Li – Johns Hopkins University
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
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    Subsocial insect networks show stable connections between individuals
    Presenting Author: Olivia Shaffer – Washington State University
    Co-Author: Edmund Brodie – University of Virginia
    Co-Author: Phoebe Cook – University of Virginia
    Co-Author: Robin Costello – University of Virginia
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
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    Substitution rates across Anisoptera along latitudinal gradients
    Presenting Author: Marissa Celine Sandoval
    Co-Author: Salka'Tuwa Bondoc Mafla – Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
    Co-Author: Manpreet Kaur Kohli – Baruch College, City University of New York
    Co-Author: Jessica Ware – American Museum of Natural History
    Co-Author: Praanjal Das – Case Western Reserve University
    Co-Author: Yasmeen Haruna – The Peddie School
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
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    Survey of wild bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) in the country condominium “Bosqyes del Rio”, Arbeláez, Cundinamarca
    Presenting Author: Dario Guevara Plata (he/him/his) – Universidad Militar Nueva Granada
    Co-Author: Marlene Lucia Lucia Aguilar Benavides – Universidad Militar Nueva Granada
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
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    Symbiont digestive arsenals can support palynivory in turtle ants (Cephalotes sp.)
    Presenting Author: Benoît Béchade – University of Texas at Arlington
    Co-Author: Yi Hu, n/a – Drexel University
    Co-Author: Dharman Anandarajan – Drexel University
    Co-Author: Christian Superio Cabuslay – Drexel University
    Co-Author: Benjamin E. Rubin – Princeton University
    Co-Author: Richard Lu – Drexel University
    Co-Author: Corrie S. Moreau – Cornell University
    Co-Author: Jacob Russell – Drexel University
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
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    Temporal and spatial dynamics and predictors of neonicotinoid contamination in groundwater fed streams in central Wisconsin
    Presenting Author: Megan Lipke
    Co-Author: Benjamin Bradford – University of Wisconsin
    Co-Author: Michael Parsen – Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey
    Co-Author: Russell L. Groves – University of Wisconsin
    Co-Author: David Hart – Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
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    Testing a ‘mix-and-match’ model of the winter honey bee transcriptome
    Presenting Author: Mehmet Ali Döke – University of Puerto Rico in Rio Piedras
    Co-Author: Sean Bresnahan – Pennsylvania State University
    Co-Author: Tugrul Giray – University of Puerto Rico
    Co-Author: Christina M. Grozinger – Penn State University
    SysEB10-Minute Paper
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    The abundance and diversity of ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) captured in semiochemical-baited traps targeting the pea leaf weevil, Sitona lineatus L. (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) in pulse crops on the Canadian Prairies
    Presenting Author: Maggie MacDonald – University of Alberta
    Co-Author: Maya L. Evenden – University of Alberta
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
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    The best of both worlds: Assessing the utility of the CO1 locus in the phylogenomic age
    Presenting Author: Nicolas J. Dowdy – Milwaukee Public Museum
    Co-Author: Makani L. Fisher – Purdue University
    Co-Author: Alan R. Lemmon – Florida State University
    Co-Author: Emily M. Lemmon – Florida State University
    Co-Author: Jennifer Zaspel – Milwaukee Public Museum
    SysEB10-Minute Paper
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    The Coleoptera Anatomy Ontology Project: Resources on beetle morphology
    Presenting Author: Jennifer C. Girón – Museum of Texas Tech University
    Co-Author: Aaron D. Smith – Purdue University
    SysEB10-Minute Paper
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    The diversity of insect fauna reared from non-crop hosts of Drosophila suzukii Matsumura (Diptera: Drosophilidae) in the Okanagan Valley, Canada
    Presenting Author: Tyler Nelson – Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
    Co-Author: Kristoferson Cu – Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
    Co-Author: Brigitte Rozema – Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
    Co-Author: Howard M. Thistlewood – Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
    Co-Author: Susanna Acheampong – British Columbia Ministry of Agriculture and Food
    Co-Author: Chandra E. Moffat – Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
    SysEB10-Minute Paper
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    The effect of larval diet on adult lifespan and aging of female and male antler flies (Protopiophila litigata)
    Presenting Author: Christopher Angell
    Co-Author: Howard Rundle – University of Ottawa
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
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    The effects of vitellogenin gene expression on aggression in Polistes fuscatus paper wasp foundresses and workers
    Presenting Author: Alexander Walton – University of Alberta
    Co-Author: Michael J. Sheehan – Cornell University
    Co-Author: Amy Toth – Iowa State University
    SysEB10-Minute Paper
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    The evolution of male mate choice across Drosophila species
    Presenting Author: Haosu Cong – Michigan State University
    Co-Author: Zinan Wang (he/him/his) – Michigan State University
    Co-Author: Mei Luo – Department of Entomology, Michigan State University
    Co-Author: Henry Chung – Michigan State University
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
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    The evolution of Noctuoidea (owlet moths) and novel detoxification genes
    Presenting Author: Emily A. Ellis – Florida Museum of Natural History
    Co-Author: Xuankun Li – University of Memphis
    Co-Author: Jesse Breinholt – Florida Natural History Museum; University of Florida
    Co-Author: Nicholas T. Homziak, Ph.D. – Florida Museum of Natural History
    Co-Author: Jose I. Martinez – Florida Museum of Natural History
    Co-Author: Kevin Keegan – Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; University of Connecticut
    Co-Author: Andreas Zwick – CSIRO
    Co-Author: Caroline Storer – University of Florida
    Co-Author: Akito Y. Kawahara – Florida Museum Of Natural History
    SysEB10-Minute Paper
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    The false-head hypothesis in lycaenid butterflies: A review
    Presenting Author: Lillian Khristina Hendrick – University of Florida
    Co-Author: Ummat Somjee – Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
    Co-Author: Akito Y. Kawahara – Florida Museum Of Natural History
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
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    The influence of social conditions on larval development and resulting caste in Bombus impatiens
    Presenting Author: Katherine Barie – Pennsylvania State University
    Co-Author: Etya Amsalem – Pennsylvania State University
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
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    The little fire ant: Using behavioral experimentation to understand invasive ant social structure
    Presenting Author: Jacob Aron Hornfeldt
    Co-Author: Leo Ohyama – University of Florida
    Co-Author: Andrea Lucky – University of Florida
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
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    The National Guard Base and the endangered american burying beetle: A four year survey of carrion beetles
    Presenting Author: Leonardo Vieira Santos
    Co-Author: W Wyatt Hoback – Oklahoma State University
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
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    The odorous house ant, Tapinoma sessile (Say):  An East Tennessee study of its distribution and species status
    Presenting Author: Gary L. Edwards – University of Tennessee
    Co-Author: Jennifer Chandler – University of Tennessee
    Co-Author: Karen M. Vail – University of Tennessee
    Co-Author: John K. Moulton – The University of Tennessee
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
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    The Oregon Bee Altas: Statewide inventory of native bees with volunteer master melittologists
    Presenting Author: Andony Melathopoulos – Oregon State University
    Co-Author: Lincoln Best – Oregon State University
    Co-Author: Cody Feuerborn – Oregon State University
    Co-Author: Heather Ann Fischer – Oregon State University
    Co-Author: Sarah Kincaid – Oregon State University
    Co-Author: Jennifer Holt – Oregon State University
    Co-Author: Christopher Marshall – Oregon State University
    SysEB10-Minute Paper
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    The Plazi Workflow to liberate PDF-imprisoned biodiversity data
    Presenting Author: Marcus Guidoti – Plazi
    Co-Author: Donat Agosti – Plazi
    Co-Author: Jeremy A. Miller – Naturalis
    Co-Author: Guido Sautter – Plazi
    SysEB10-Minute Paper
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    The power of next-generation sequencing to resolve the population structure of an invasive insect pest, Anoplophora glabripennis
    Presenting Author: Mingming Cui – University of Laval
    Co-Author: Isabelle Giguère – Laval University
    Co-Author: Amanda D. Roe – Natural Resources Canada
    Co-Author: Richard Hamelin – University of British Columbia
    Co-Author: Ilga Porth – University of Laval
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
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    The role of light environment in the evolution of color vision genes in butterflies and moths
    Presenting Author: Yash Sondhi – Florida Museum of Natural History
    Co-Author: Akito Y. Kawahara – Florida Museum Of Natural History
    Co-Author: Jamie Theobald, PhD – Florida International University
    Co-Author: Emily A. Ellis – Florida Museum of Natural History
    Co-Author: Seth M. Bybee – Brigham Young University, Department of Biology
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
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    The species-area relationship in ant ecology
    Presenting Author: Leo Ohyama – University of Florida
    Co-Author: Robert Holt – University of Florida
    Co-Author: Andrea Lucky – University of Florida
    Co-Author: Thomas J. Matthews, PhD – University of Birmingham
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
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    Thermal benefits of polygyny? Multi-queen desert ant colonies have higher and more uniform heat tolerance
    Presenting Author: Kaitlin M. Baudier – School of Biological, Environmental and Earth Sciences, The University of Southern Mississippi
    Co-Author: Madeleine Ostwald – University of California Santa Barbara
    Co-Author: Brian Haney – Arizona State University
    Co-Author: Jennifer H. Fewell – Arizona State University
    Co-Author: Juliana M. Calixto – Arizona State University
    Co-Author: Frank J. Cossio – Arizona State University
    SysEB10-Minute Paper
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    Total-evidence bayesian inference and the phylogeny of aberrant ants (Formicidae: Leptanillinae)
    Presenting Author: Zachary Hayes Griebenow – University of California-Davis
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
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    Trade-off investment between tonic immobility and mate search in the sweetpotato weevil, Cylas formicarius (Coleoptera: Brentidae)
    Presenting Author: Haoyong Ouyang – Florida A&M University
    Co-Author: pengxiang Wu – Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Co-Author: Runzhi Zhang – Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Co-Author: Muhammad Haseeb – Florida A&M University CBC
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
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    Two common bee-sampling methods capture different bee communities
    Presenting Author: Chyna Pei
    Co-Author: Torre Hovick – North Dakota State University
    Co-Author: Cameron Duquette – North Dakota State University
    Co-Author: Jason Harmon – North Dakota State University
    Co-Author: Ryan Limb – North Dakota State University
    Co-Author: Benjamin Geaumont – Hettinger Research Extension Center
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
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    UCE data reveal multiple origins of rose gallers in North America: Global phylogeny of Diplolepis (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae)
    Presenter: Yuanmeng Miles Zhang – University of Edinburgh
    Co-Author: Matthew buffington – Systematic Entomology Lab, USDA/ARS
    Co-Author: Zoltan Laszlo – Babe?-Bolyai University
    Co-Author: Chris Looney – Washington State Department of Agriculture
    Co-Author: Joseph Shorthouse – Laurentian Univ
    Co-Author: Tatsuya Ide – National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo
    Co-Author: Andrea Lucky – University of Florida
    SysEB10-Minute Paper
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    UCE phylogenomics and biogeography of the agriculturally important mason bee subgenus Osmia (Osmia)
    Presenting Author: Michael G. Branstetter (he/him/his) – USDA-ARS Pollinating Insects Research Unit
    Co-Author: Andreas Müller – ETH Zurich, Institute of Agricultural Sciences
    Co-Author: Terry L. Griswold – USDA ARS Pollinating Insects Research Unit
    Co-Author: Michael C. Orr – Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart
    Co-Author: Chao-Dong Zhu – Chinese Academy of Sciences
    SysEB10-Minute Paper
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    UCE phylogenomics and the arboreal ant genus Myrmelachista (Formicidae: Myrmelachistini): A case study on the evolution of obligatory ant-plant symbioses
    Presenting Author: Rodolfo S. Probst – University of Utah
    Co-Author: John T. Longino – University of Utah
    Co-Author: Michael G. Branstetter (he/him/his) – USDA-ARS Pollinating Insects Research Unit
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
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    Ultraconserved elements reveal patterns of shallow-scale diversification in the aquatic beetle genus Notomicrus (Coleoptera: Noteridae)
    Presenting Author: Stephen M. Baca – University of Kansas
    Co-Author: Andrew E. Short – University of Kansas
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
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    Urban dragons: Odonata communities in the city
    Presenting Author: Catalina Mara Suárez Tovar
    Co-Author: Alex Cordoba-Aguilar – Laboratorio de Ecologia de la Conducta de Artropodos. Departamento de Ecologia Evolutiva. Instituto de Ecologia, UNAM
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
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    Using a dependent double observer technique to estimate the distribution and abundance of regal fritillaries (Speyeria idalia) in western Missouri
    Presenting Author: Christopher Newbold
    SysEB10-Minute Paper
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    Was it something I ate? Investigating how host order affects body coloration in Cirrospilini (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae)
    Presenting Author: Ryan K. Perry – University of California, Riverside
    SysEB10-Minute Paper
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    Who preys upon the predators? Taxonomic and biogeographic variation of predators of social wasp (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) colonies
    Co-Author: Xesús Féas – Academy of Veterinary Sciences of Galicia
    Co-Author: Robert Jeanne – University of Wisconsin
    Co-Author: Kevin J. Loope – University of California, Riverside
    Co-Author: Sean O'Donnell – Drexel University
    Co-Author: Davide Santoro – Victoria University of Wellington (formerly)
    Co-Author: Seirian Sumner – University College London
    Co-Author: Jennifer Jandt – University of Otago
    SysEBStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
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    1: Introductory remarks
    Presenting Author: Andrea Lucky – University of Florida
    Co-Author: Corrie S. Moreau – Cornell University
    Co-Author: Rachelle M. Adams – The Ohio State University
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    12: Closing remarks
    Presenting Author: Andrea Lucky – University of Florida
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    2: Myrmecology, gender, and geography: changing demographics of a research community over thirty years
    Presenting Author: Andrea Lucky – University of Florida
    Co-Author: Rachel A. Atchison – USDA-ARS
    Co-Author: Leo Ohyama – University of Florida
    Co-Author: Yuanmeng Miles Zhang – University of Edinburgh
    Co-Author: Jason Lee Williams – University of Florida
    Co-Author: Catherine Lippi – University of Florida
    Co-Author: J. Louis Pinkney, IV – University of Florida
    Co-Author: Keara Clancy – University of Florida
    Co-Author: Alexandra Nielsen – University of Florida
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    3: Taking the pulse of the city: measuring metabolism and counting ants with students
    Presenting Author: James S. Waters – Providence College
    Co-Author: Nicole Korzeniecki – UC Davis / Animal Behavior Graduate Group
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    4: Surprising evolutionary complexity of queen winglessness in Megalomyrmex Forel, 1885 ants
    Presenting Author: Rachelle M. Adams – The Ohio State University
    Co-Author: Livia Prado – Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi
    Co-Author: Kyle S. Sozanski – The Ohio State University
    Co-Author: Ted R. Schultz – Smithsonian Institution
    Co-Author: Rachelle M. Adams – The Ohio State University
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    5: Connecting phenomes with functional genomes in ants, manipulated by a fungal parasite
    Presenting Author: Charissa De Bekker – University of Central Florida
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    6: The ant microbiome
    Presenting Author: Corrie S. Moreau – Cornell University
    Co-Author: John T. Wertz – Calvin College
    Co-Author: Jacob Russell – Drexel University
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    7: Morphological insights into the evolution of eusociality in Formicidae
    Presenting Author: Brendon Elias Boudinot – Friedrich-Schiller-Universit�t Jena
    Co-Author: Ziad Khouri (he/him/his) – University of California, Davis
    Co-Author: Adrian Richter – Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology
    Co-Author: Thomas van de Kamp – Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
    Co-Author: Phillip Barden – New Jersey Institute of Technology
    Co-Author: Júlio Chaul
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  • On-Demand
    8: Paleontology and lost branches in ant evolution
    Presenting Author: Phillip Barden – New Jersey Institute of Technology
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  • On-Demand
    9: The evolution of army ant mass raiding
    Presenting Author: Daniel J.C. Kronauer – The Rockefeller University
    Co-Author: Vikram Chandra – Harvard University
    Co-Author: Asaf Gal
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  • On-Demand
    10: Are ant morphological traits "functional" when it comes to herbivory?
    Presenting Author: Elizabeth G. Pringle – University of Nevada
    Co-Author: Talitha Ferreira dos Santos – U. Federal do Amazonas
    Co-Author: Leonardo Paz Borges – U. Federal do Amazonas
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    11: The evolution of worker body size and polymorphism in ants
    Presenting Author: Michael Rivera
    Co-Author: Andrew Suarez – University of Illinois
    Co-Author: Phillip Barden – New Jersey Institute of Technology
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  • Thursday, Nov 12th
    11:00 AM - 12:00 PM EST
    VC Myrmecology For All: Combining Morphology, Molecules, Ecology, and Behavior to Advance Ant Systematics Panel Discussion
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  • Tuesday, Nov 17th
    4:30 PM - 6:30 PM EST
    Systematics, Evolution and Biodiversity Business Meeting
    SysEBOrganized Meeting
  • Tuesday, Nov 17th
    4:30 PM - 4:40 PM EST
    1: Introductory remarks
    SysEBOrganized Meeting
  • Tuesday, Nov 17th
    4:40 PM - 4:45 PM EST
    Remarks from ESA President
    SysEBOrganized Meeting
  • Tuesday, Nov 17th
    4:45 PM - 5:00 PM EST
    2: Updates from NSF
    SysEBOrganized Meeting
  • Tuesday, Nov 17th
    5:00 PM - 5:23 PM EST
    3: 2020 Robert E. Snodgrass Memorial Research Award Presentation
    SysEBOrganized Meeting
  • Tuesday, Nov 17th
    5:23 PM - 5:43 PM EST
    4: 2020 Edith Patch Memorial Research Award Presentation
    SysEBOrganized Meeting
  • Tuesday, Nov 17th
    5:43 PM - 5:48 PM EST
    5: Break
    SysEBOrganized Meeting
  • Tuesday, Nov 17th
    5:48 PM - 6:01 PM EST
    6: 2020 Richard Fall Memorial Fellowship
    SysEBOrganized Meeting
  • Tuesday, Nov 17th
    6:01 PM - 6:11 PM EST
    7: 2020 BioQuip Undergraduate Scholarship
    SysEBOrganized Meeting
  • Tuesday, Nov 17th
    6:11 PM - 6:16 PM EST
    8: Business meeting
    SysEBOrganized Meeting
  • Tuesday, Nov 17th
    6:16 PM - 6:21 PM EST
    Awards report
    SysEBOrganized Meeting
  • Tuesday, Nov 17th
    6:26 PM - 6:29 PM EST
    Treasurers report
    SysEBOrganized Meeting
  • Tuesday, Nov 17th
    6:29 PM - 6:39 AM EST
    Business meeting wrap-up
    SysEBOrganized Meeting
  • Tuesday, Nov 17th
    6:39 PM - 6:45 PM EST
    10: Closing remarks
    SysEBOrganized Meeting
  • Wednesday, Nov 18th
    11:30 AM - 11:35 AM EST
    1: Introductory remarks
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  • Wednesday, Nov 18th
    11:30 AM - 2:30 PM EST
    Insects and Micro-CT: Recent Advances in the Use of 3-dimensional Data within Entomology
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  • Wednesday, Nov 18th
    11:35 AM - 11:55 AM EST
    2: Micro-CT and the insect fossil record - an overview of specimens, deposits and techniques
    SysEBSection Symposium
  • Wednesday, Nov 18th
    11:55 AM - 12:15 PM EST
    3: Comparing tracheal morphology in the light organs of fireflies (Coleoptera: Lampyridae) to reveal new insights into their evolution
    SysEBSection Symposium
  • Wednesday, Nov 18th
    12:15 PM - 12:20 PM EST
    4: Break
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  • Wednesday, Nov 18th
    12:20 PM - 12:40 PM EST
    5: Semi-automatic analysis of insect micro-CT data using the open source web application Biomedisa
    SysEBSection Symposium
  • Wednesday, Nov 18th
    12:40 PM - 1:00 PM EST
    6: Use of micro-CT in comparative morphological and evo-devo studies in weevils
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  • Wednesday, Nov 18th
    1:00 PM - 1:05 PM EST
    7: Break
    SysEBSection Symposium
  • Wednesday, Nov 18th
    1:05 PM - 1:25 PM EST
    8: Non-destructive 3D imaging of entomological specimens for multi-scale anatomy and towards biomimicry
    SysEBSection Symposium
  • Wednesday, Nov 18th
    1:25 PM - 1:45 PM EST
    9: Exploring sexy new frontiers of functional morphology...in 3D!!! (Orthoptera: Acrididae)
    SysEBSection Symposium
  • Wednesday, Nov 18th
    1:45 PM - 1:50 PM EST
    10: Break
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  • Wednesday, Nov 18th
    1:50 PM - 2:10 PM EST
    11: Resolving fossil insects in amber for systematics and outreach
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  • Wednesday, Nov 18th
    2:10 PM - 2:25 PM EST
    12: Panel discussion with Q&A
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  • Wednesday, Nov 18th
    2:25 PM - 2:30 PM EST
    13: Closing remarks
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