Undergrad SysEB: Evolution and Ecology

Moderator(s)

• 

  Matthew Lehnert

  Associate Professor
  Biological Sciences
  Kent State University
  Clinton, Ohio
• 

  Geoffrey Morse

  Associate Professor
  Biology
  University of San Diego
  San Diego, California

Presentations:

• 8:00 AM – 8:12 AM PT

  A tale of two cycads: Sensory variation between cycad-associated and free living Erotylidae (Coleoptera)
  

  Presenting Author: Abigail E. Magland – Drexel University

  Co-Author: Paul E. Skelley – Florida State Coll Arthropods

  Co-Author: Seth Bybee – Brigham Young University

  Co-Author: Gareth S. Powell – Brigham Young University
• 8:12 AM – 8:24 AM PT

  Evolution of visual opsin genes in Trichoptera
  

  Presenting Author: Ashlyn Powell – 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: Paul B. Frandsen – Brigham Young University
• 8:24 AM – 8:36 AM PT

  Exposure of Diamesa mendotae, a cold-adapted chironomid, to short-term high temperature
  

  Presenting Author: Hannah M. Bodmer – University of Minnesota

  Co-Author: Corrie Nyquist – University of Minnesota

  Co-Author: Bruce Vondracek – University of Minnesota

  Co-Author: Leonard Ferrington, Jr. – University of Minnesota
• 8:36 AM – 8:48 AM PT

  Hymenopteran warfare - Comparing defensive strategies of honey bee lineages against ant invaders
  

  Presenting Author: Jackson Wingert – Texas A&M University

  Co-Author: Caleb Rodriguez – Texas A&M University

  Co-Author: Juliana Rangel – Texas A&M University

  Co-Author: Alexandria N. Payne – University of Illinois

  Co-Author: Jordan Twombly Ellis – Texas A&M University
• 8:48 AM – 9:00 AM PT

  Little sons and big daughters: Honeybee queen cell size experience effects on egg laying behaviour
  

  Presenting Author: Kayla deJong – University of Alberta

  Co-Author: Tianna K. Tanasichuk – University of Alberta

  Co-Author: Jacob Herman – University of Alberta

  Co-Author: Olav Rueppell – University of Alberta
• 9:00 AM – 9:12 AM PT

  Mouthpart morphology of moths and its relationship to feeding habits
  

  Presenting Author: Elaine M. Bast – Kent State University

  Co-Author: Rena Fonseca – Kent State University

  Co-Author: Courtney Goebeler – Kent State University

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

  Co-Author: Peter Van Zandt – Birmingham-Southern College

  Co-Author: Matthew S. Lehnert – Kent State University
• 9:12 AM – 9:24 AM PT

  Tundra wolf spider abundance and phenology shift with distance from the Dempster Highway
  

  Presenting Author: Stephanie Gagnon (she/her/hers) – McGill University

  Co-Author: Catherine Scott – McGill University

  Co-Author: Christopher Buddle – McGill University, Macdonald Campus
• 9:24 AM – 9:36 AM PT

  Precise spatiotemporal behavioural analysis of Aedes aegypti and Aedes togoi mosquitoes
  

  Presenting Author: Parsa Seyfourian – The University of British Columbia
• 9:36 AM – 9:48 AM PT

  Under your nose: How olfactory cues influence recognition and preference of fungal symbionts
  

  Presenting Author: Alison H. Jennings (she/her/hers) – The Ohio State University

  Co-Author: Alissa R. Geisse – The Ohio State University

  Co-Author: Olivia Kuethe – The Ohio State University

  Co-Author: Rachelle M. Adams – The Ohio State University