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Member Symposium

Diversity of Genomic Applications across Entomological Disciplines

On-Demand

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The breadth of genomics research with the entomological community encompasses a variety of novel research approaches by those with a diversity of perspectives, interests, and expertise. These strengths link us together in the quest to uncover genomic mechanisms underlying the equally great diversity present among the arthropods we study.

Presentations:

  • USDA-ARS’s Ag100Pest Initiative: Sequencing them all, whether big or small

    Presenting Author: Anna K. Childers – USDA-ARS

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

    Co-Author: Scott M. Geib – USDA-ARS-PBARC

    Co-Author: Timothy Smith – USDA-ARS

    Co-Author: Monica Poelchau – USDA-NAL

    Co-Author: Christopher Childers – USDA-NAL

    Co-Author: Brian Scheffler – USDA-ARS

    Co-Author: Kevin Hackett – USDA-ARS

  • The Genomics Education Partnership: Expanding opportunities for undergraduate learning and research using genomics

    Presenting Author: Laura Reed

  • Genomics through the lens of pest management: How reference-quality assemblies and global collaboration are bringing the sterile insect technique to the 21st century

    Presenting Author: Sheina Biason Sim (she/her/hers) – USDA-ARS

    Co-Author: Scott M. Geib – USDA-ARS-PBARC

  • Genomic scans of corn earworm field populations reveal a novel basis for Bt resistance evolution

    Presenting Author: Megan L. Fritz – University of Maryland

    Co-Author: Fred L. Gould – North Carolina State University

  • Genomic inferences on overcoming aphid-resistant soybean in the soybean aphid

    Presenting Author: Andy Michel – The Ohio State University

    Co-Author: Ashley Danielle Stewart – Bayer CropScience

    Co-Author: Josquin Daron – Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Co-Author: Saima Shahid – Donald Danforth Plant Science Center

    Co-Author: Keith Slotkin – Donald Danforth Plant Science Center

  • Ethological genomics: Integrating sequence, functionality, ecology, and evolution for a systems understanding of insect behavior

    Presenting Author: Amy Toth – Iowa State University

    Co-Author: Alexander Walton – University of Alberta

    Co-Author: Michael J. Sheehan – Cornell University

  • An NGS approach to unravel the genomic basis of evolutionary and ecological traits in bumblebees

    Presenting Author: Sarthok Rasique Rahman – University of Alabama

    Co-Author: Heather M. Hines – The Pennsylvania State University

  • Genomic innovations for exploiting stored commodities

    Presenting Author: Erin D. Scully – USDA-ARS

    Co-Author: Anna K. Childers – USDA-ARS

    Co-Author: Scott M. Geib – USDA-ARS-PBARC

    Co-Author: Robert F. Mitchell (he/him/his) – University of Wisconsin Oshkosh

    Co-Author: Sheina Biason Sim (she/her/hers) – USDA-ARS