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Student 10-Minute Presentation Competition

Plant-Insect Ecosystems

Student Competition

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Grad 10-min Competition: P-IE, Forestry

Monday, November 10, 2025
10:30 AM - 12:45 PM Pacific
Location: Oregon Convention Center, D135, OCC

Oral Presentation Student Competition

    Moderator(s)

  • Kelsey Tobin

    Assistant Professor
    University of Idaho
    Moscow, Idaho

  • Todd Johnson

    Louisiana State University
    Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Presentations:

  • 10:30 AM - 10:42 AM Pacific
    Development of detection, monitoring, and management strategies for the pine bark beetles (Coleoptera: Scolytinae) in Florida

    Presenting Author: Ann Marie Shanae Robinson-Baker (she/her/hers) – Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University

    Co-Author: Muhammad Haseeb (he/him/his) – Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University

    Co-Author: Paul Skelley – Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services

    Co-Author: lambert Kanga – Florida A&M University

  • 10:42 AM - 10:54 AM Pacific
    Drifted dinner: Investigating herbicide drift’s impacts on herbivorous insects in arboreal ecosystems

    Presenting Author: Elizabeth Lumley – University of Missouri

    Co-Author: Emily Althoff – University of Missouri

  • 10:54 AM - 11:06 AM Pacific
    Effects of temperature on the development of two ambrosia beetle species frequently moved via international trade

    Presenting Author: Thomas G. Paul, M.S. – The Ohio State University

    Co-Author: Christopher M. Ranger (he/him/his) – USDA-ARS

    Co-Author: Samuel F. Ward, M.S., Ph.D. (he/him/his) – The Ohio State University

  • 11:06 AM - 11:18 AM Pacific
    Exploiting a fungal associate for gene silencing in southern pine beetle (Dendroctonus frontalis)

    Presenting Author: Morgan Christine Knutsen (she/her/hers) – University of Kentucky

    Co-Author: Lynne K. Rieske-Kinney (she/her/hers) – University of Kentucky

  • 11:30 AM - 11:42 AM Pacific
    Investigating thermal buffering from ambrosia beetle fungal symbionts during heat treatments: Implications for the wood packaging pathway

    Presenting Author: Jessi Raubenolt (she/her/hers) – The Ohio State University

    Co-Author: Christopher M. Ranger (he/him/his) – USDA-ARS

    Co-Author: Kayla I. Perry – The Ohio State University

    Co-Author: Samuel F. Ward, M.S., Ph.D. (he/him/his) – The Ohio State University

  • 11:42 AM - 11:54 AM Pacific
    Larval development and feeding patterns of the invasive Asian longhorned beetle (Anoplophora glabripennis) in South Carolina

    Presenting Author: Lindsey A. Stone (she/her/hers) – Clemson University

    Co-Author: Lena Schmitt – Clemson University

    Co-Author: Talbot Trotter – USDA Forest Service

    Co-Author: David Coyle – Clemson University

  • 11:54 AM - 12:06 PM Pacific
    Thinning, burning, and bees: Evaluating pollinator responses to forest management in Utah's Uinta Mountains

    Presenting Author: Kirstie Kandaris (she/her/hers) – USDA-ARS

    Co-Author: Kelsey Graham – USDA-ARS

    Co-Author: Larissa Yocom – Utah State University

  • 12:06 PM - 12:18 PM Pacific
    Using species distribution modeling to predict range expansion and preferred habitat of Dendroctonus frontalis

    Presenting Author: Travis Henry Rhodes – Sam Houston State University

    Co-Author: Charlotte Jeanne Heinz Hohman (she/her/hers) – Sam Houston State University

  • 12:18 PM - 12:30 PM Pacific
    Wild bee responses to timber harvests depend on species habitat associations

    Presenting Author: Joanna Wren Greenwood (she/her/hers) – Rutgers University

    Co-Author: Katherine J. Turo, PhD – Fordham University

    Co-Author: Rachael Winfree, PhD – Rutgers University