Grad 10-min Competition: PBT, General

Moderator(s)

• 

  Paul Ayayee (he/him/his)

  Assistant Professor
  Biology
  University of Omaha
  Omaha, Nebraska
• AA

  Azhari Abdelbagi Mohamed (he/him/his)

  Professor
  Crop Protection, Faculty of Agriculture
  University of Khartoum
  Shambat, Khartoum North, , Sudan

Presentations:

• 10:30 AM - 10:42 AM Pacific

  Adaptive biomass breakdown in the leafcutter ant-fungus symbiosis
  

  Presenting Author: Julianne Dessert (she/her/hers) – University of Texas
• 10:54 AM - 11:06 AM Pacific

  Gossypol detoxification by UDP-glycosyltransferase in Helicoverpa zea
  

  Presenting Author: Sujin Lee – Mississippi State University

  Co-Author: Seung-Joon Ahn – Mississippi State University
• 11:06 AM - 11:18 AM Pacific

  Metal accumulation in benthic macroinvertebrates from watersheds affected by the 2021 Dixie Fire
  

  Presenting Author: William Askea (he/him/his) – California State University

  Co-Author: Donald G. Miller, III, Ph.D. – California State University
• 11:18 AM - 11:30 AM Pacific

  Rearing conditions alter host and microbial detoxification pathways in the coffee berry borer (Hypothenemus hampei) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae)
  

  Presenting Author: Lynn J. Bonomo (she/her/hers) – Northern Arizona University

  Co-Author: Dishant Patel – Northern Arizona University

  Co-Author: William Wagner – Northern Arizona University

  Co-Author: Adam Vannett – Northern Arizona University

  Co-Author: Matthew Heidenblut – Northern Arizona University

  Co-Author: Marie Fredenberg – Northern Arizona University

  Co-Author: Mark Wright – University of Hawaii

  Co-Author: Javier Ceja-Navarro – Northern Arizona University
• 11:30 AM - 11:42 AM Pacific

  Wolbachia-supplemented B-vitamins are essential for blood protein catabolism in the common bed bug, Cimex lectularius (Hemiptera: Cimicidae)
  

  Presenting Author: Elizabeth Wiles (she/her/hers) – North Carolina State University

  Co-Author: Madhavi Kakumanu – North Carolina State University

  Co-Author: Coby Schal – North Carolina State University