SysEB: Genetics

Moderator(s)

• AH

  Austin Hendricks (she/her/hers)

  PhD Student
  Biology
  University of New Mexico
  Albuquerque, New Mexico
• 

  Donald Miller, III (he/him/his)

  Professor
  Biological Sciences
  California State University
  Chico, California

Presentations:

• 1:30 PM – 1:42 PM PT

  A ddPCR assay for indirect detection of Vespa mandarina (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) from biological trace evidence
  

  Presenting Author: Luke R. Tembrock – Colorado State University

  Co-Author: Frida A. Zink – Colorado State University

  Co-Author: Todd M. Gilligan – USDA-APHIS

  Co-Author: Alicia Timm – Colorado State University

  Co-Author: Chris Looney – Washington State Department of Agriculture

  Co-Author: Telissa Wilson – Washington State Department of Agriculture

  Co-Author: Sapphitah Dickerson – Washington State Department of Agriculture

  Co-Author: Sven-Erik Spichiger – Washington State Department of Agriculture
• 1:42 PM – 1:54 PM PT

  A real-time PCR assay for the detection of three Chrysodeixis (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) species of agricultural importance developed from rDNA long-read sequence data
  

  Presenting Author: Frida A. Zink – Colorado State University

  Co-Author: Todd M. Gilligan – USDA-APHIS

  Co-Author: Luke R. Tembrock – Colorado State University

  Co-Author: Alicia Timm – Colorado State University
• 1:54 PM – 2:06 PM PT

  Advances in genomic studies of longhorn beetles (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae): a new reference genome and insights into the evolution and ecological diversity of twig-girdlers
  

  Presenting Author: Diego Souza – University of Alberta

  Co-Author: Rowan French – University of Toronto

  Co-Author: José Osvaldo Silva Júnior – Federal University of Parana

  Co-Author: Eugenio Nearns – USDA-APHIS

  Co-Author: Marcela Monné – Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

  Co-Author: Felix Sperling – University of Alberta
• 2:06 PM – 2:18 PM PT

  Assembling de novo Aedes genomes from single specimens
  

  Presenting Author: Gen Morinaga – University of Calgary

  Co-Author: Andrea Gloria-Soria – The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station

  Co-Author: Jeffrey Powell – Yale University

  Co-Author: John S. Soghigian – University of Calgary
• 2:18 PM – 2:30 PM PT

  Detecting the genomic basis of Bt cry toxin resistance in Helicoverpa zea
  

  Presenting Author: Katherine L. Taylor – University of Maryland

  Co-Author: Kelly A. Hamby – University of Maryland

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

  Co-Author: Megan L. Fritz – University of Maryland
• 2:30 PM – 2:42 PM PT

  Break
• 2:42 PM – 2:54 PM PT

  Development of LAMP-based molecular method to identify two diamondback moth parasitoids, Diadegma fenestrale and Diadegma semiclausum for application in biological control
  

  Co-Author: Megan L. Fritz – University of Maryland

  Co-Author: Megan L. Fritz – University of Maryland

  Co-Author: Megan L. Fritz – University of Maryland

  Co-Author: Megan L. Fritz – University of Maryland
• 2:54 PM – 3:06 PM PT

  Diversity and evolution of caddisfly silk genes
  

  Presenting Author: Paul B. Frandsen – Brigham Young University

  Co-Author: Jacqueline Heckenhauer – LOEWE Centre for Translational Biodiversity Genomics

  Co-Author: Steffen Pauls – Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum

  Co-Author: Russell J. Stewart – University of Utah
• 3:06 PM – 3:18 PM PT

  Host gene expression manipulation by the blueberry stem gall wasp, Hemadas nubilipennis
  

  Presenting Author: Ellen O. Martinson – University of New Mexico

  Co-Author: Michael Sergeant – Wayne State University

  Co-Author: Glen R. Hood – Wayne State University
• 3:18 PM – 3:30 PM PT

  Microbial diversity in ptinid and bostrichid beetles
  

  Presenting Author: Austin A. Hendricks (she/her/hers) – University of New Mexico

  Co-Author: Vince Martinson – University of Rochester

  Co-Author: T. Philips – Western Kentucky University
• 3:30 PM – 3:42 PM PT

  Single-cell whole-genome sequencing and 18S barcoding of gregarines (Apicomplexa) in Orthoptera: Paving the route toward the understanding of gregarine diversity in insects
  

  Presenting Author: Jorge H. Medina Duran – Texas A&M University

  Co-Author: Jordan Moore – Texas A&M University

  Co-Author: Hojun Song – Texas A&M University
• 3:42 PM – 3:54 PM PT

  Break
• 3:54 PM – 4:06 PM PT

  The California Conservation Genomics Project (CCGP): Characterizing the diversity of Tamalia aphid galls as part of California’s landscapes
  

  Presenting Author: Donald G. Miller, III (he/him/his) – California State University

  Co-Author: Paul Nabity – University of California
• 4:06 PM – 4:18 PM PT

  The spruce budworm genome: Reconstructing the evolutionary history of antifreeze proteins
  

  Presenting Author: Michel Cusson (he/him/his) – Natural Resources Canada

  Co-Author: Catherine Béliveau – Natural Resources Canada

  Co-Author: Patrick Gagné – Natural Resources Canada

  Co-Author: Sandrine Picq – Natural Resources Canada

  Co-Author: Christopher I. Keeling – Natural Resources Canada

  Co-Author: Oksana Vernygora – University of Kentucky

  Co-Author: Daniel Doucet – Natural Resources Canada

  Co-Author: J. Spencer Johnston – Texas A&M University

  Co-Author: Halim Maaroufi – Université Laval

  Co-Author: Felix Sperling – University of Alberta
• 4:18 PM – 4:30 PM PT

  The truth is in the poo: Non-invasive method to detect endoparasitic infection
  

  Presenting Author: Jean-François Doherty – The University of British Columbia

  Co-Author: Upendra R. Bhattarai (he/him/his) – Harvard University

  Co-Author: Robert Poulin – University of Otago

  Co-Author: Neil J. Gemmell – University of Otago

  Co-Author: Edwina Dowle – University of Otago
• 4:30 PM – 4:42 PM PT

  Time-course analysis of sensory and brain tissue transcriptomes during phase transitions in the Desert Locust (Schistocerca gregaria)
  

  Presenting Author: Maeva A. Techer (she/her/hers) – Texas A&M University

  Co-Author: Alyssa Canova – Texas A&M University

  Co-Author: Vivian A. Peralta Santana – Texas A&M University

  Co-Author: Hojun Song – Texas A&M University
• 4:42 PM – 4:54 PM PT

  Validation of a bulk real-time PCR assay for detection of Helicoverpa armigera (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)
  

  Presenting Author: Kayla A. Mollet – Colorado State University

  Co-Author: Luke R. Tembrock – Colorado State University

  Co-Author: Frida A. Zink – Colorado State University

  Co-Author: Alicia Timm – Colorado State University

  Co-Author: Todd M. Gilligan – USDA-APHIS
• 4:54 PM – 5:06 PM PT

  Florida Museum’s McGuire Center of Lepidoptera digitization: Processes and recent products
  

  Presenting Author: Taylor Pierson – University of Florida

  Co-Author: Ana P. S. Carvalho (she/her/hers) – University of Florida

  Co-Author: Nicholas T. Homziak – University of Florida

  Co-Author: Keith Willmott – University of Florida

  Co-Author: Akito Y. Kawahara – University of Florida