Undergrad SysEB: Biodiversity

Moderator(s)

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  Rebecca Simmons

  Professor
  Department of Biology
  University of North Dakota
  Grand Forks, North Dakota
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  Angela Tucker

  Field Scientist II
  Pest Management
  Douglas Products
  Cordova, Tennessee

Presentations:

• 10:30 AM – 10:42 AM PT

  Adaptations for fluid uptake among moths with hyper-elongated proboscises
  

  Presenting Author: Julie M. Wilson – Kent State University

  Co-Author: Kristen E. Reiter – Kent State University

  Co-Author: Matthew S. Lehnert – Kent State University
• 10:42 AM – 10:54 AM PT

  Phylogenomics of Baetidae: A comparison in classification
  

  Presenting Author: Avery N. Larsen – Utah Valley University

  Co-Author: T. Heath Ogden – Utah Valley University

  Co-Author: Tabitha Weir – Utah Valley University
• 10:54 AM – 11:06 AM PT

  Phylosymbiosis in fungus-gardening ants Trachymyrmex
  

  Presenting Author: Elizabeth D. Boshers (she/her/hers) – University of Texas at Tyler

  Co-Author: Jon N. Seal – University of Texas
• 11:06 AM – 11:18 AM PT

  Piecing together the periodical cicada puzzle
  

  Presenting Author: Robert J. Bush – Brigham Young University

  Co-Author: Paul B. Frandsen – Brigham Young University
• 11:18 AM – 11:30 AM PT

  Review of the assassin-fly genus Anypodetus (Diptera: Asilidae) in Namibia
  

  Presenting Author: Meliah Dubus (they/them/theirs) – Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History

  Co-Author: Torsten Dikow – Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History
• 11:30 AM – 11:42 AM PT

  Temporal patterns and distribution of Coleoptera in the Vedauwoo natural history site
  

  Presenting Author: Isabelle Seivley – Laramie County Community College

  Co-Author: Jordyn T. Sorrow – Wyoming Rib and Chop House

  Co-Author: Gavin Martin – Laramie County Community College
• 11:42 AM – 11:54 AM PT

  Evolution of feeding behavior and gustatory receptors in bombycoid moths
  

  Presenting Author: Christian D. Couch – University of Florida

  Co-Author: R. Keating Godfrey – University of Florida

  Co-Author: David Plotkin – University of Florida

  Co-Author: Akito Y. Kawahara – University of Florida
• 11:54 AM – 12:06 PM PT

  The phoretic mite (Arachnida: Acari) assemblage of the Douglas-fir beetle, Dendroctonus pseudotsugae Hopkins (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)
  

  Presenting Author: Laura-Anne Browning – University of Northern British Columbia

  Co-Author: Dezene P. Huber – University of Northern British Columbia