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Member Symposium

Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity

Formal and Informal Teaching

Entomology Collections: Windows to the Past, Present, and Future

Tuesday, November 11, 2025
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM Pacific
Location: Oregon Convention Center, Portland Ballroom 253, OCC

Oral Presentation

Collections are a critical component of entomological research, with specimen data providing material for countless research questions. We invite everyone for an overview or refresher of best practices for all entomologists to ensure that their specimens are preserved in excellent quality for any current and future work.

Presentations:

  • 2:00 PM - 2:04 PM Pacific
    Introductory remarks

    Presenting Author: Jack Whisenant (he/him/his) – Cornell University

  • 2:04 PM - 2:14 PM Pacific
    Covering the basics - Online resources for caring for entomology collections

    Presenting Author: Ashleigh Whiffin (she/her/hers) – National Museums Scotland

  • 2:14 PM - 2:24 PM Pacific
    Managing vouchers and developing collections to support insect diagnostics

    Presenting Author: M. Andrew Johnston – Purdue University

  • 2:24 PM - 2:34 PM Pacific
    Sharing my methods: Creating datasets using entomological museum specimens

    Presenting Author: Lily Hart (she/her/hers) – University of Illinois

  • 2:34 PM - 2:44 PM Pacific
    Good, clean data from disparate digitization efforts at the M. T. James Museum

    Presenting Author: Joel Gardner (he/him/his) – Washington State University

  • 2:44 PM - 2:54 PM Pacific
    Uses of the INHS insect collection - Good, bad, and the future

    Presenting Author: Thomas McElrath – Illinois Natural History Survey

  • 2:54 PM - 3:04 PM Pacific
    Through a Glass Darkly: Natural History collections as time machines to explore vanished biodiversity

    Presenting Author: Maxwell Barclay – Natural History Museum

  • 3:04 PM - 3:12 PM Pacific
    Break
  • 3:12 PM - 3:22 PM Pacific
    Preserving California specimens in an Illinois collection

    Presenting Author: Michelle Kohler (she/her/hers) – Illinois Natural History Survey

    Co-Author: Thomas McElrath – Illinois Natural History Survey

    Co-Author: Lily Hart (she/her/hers) – University of Illinois

  • 3:22 PM - 3:32 PM Pacific
    Integrating museum collections in biodiversity and genomics research

    Presenting Author: Portia Y.-H. Wong (she/her/hers) – Cornell University

    Co-Author: Melissa Guzman, Ph.D. – Cornell University

    Co-Author: Jayme Lewthwaite – Simon Fraser University

  • 3:32 PM - 3:42 PM Pacific
    Miridae in the museum: Building phylogenies with genetic and distributional data from museum specimens

    Presenting Author: MC Fox (they/them/theirs) – University of California

    Co-Author: Sarah Elise Schroeder – University of California

    Co-Author: Veronica Tyts (she/her/hers) – University of California

    Co-Author: Rochelle Hoey-Chamberlain – University of California, Riverside

    Co-Author: Mark Stukel (he/him/his) – University of California, Davis

    Co-Author: Randall Schuh – American Museum of Natural History

    Co-Author: Michael Schwartz – Canadian National Collection

    Co-Author: Jason E. Bond – University of California

    Co-Author: Michael Forthman – California Department of Food and Agriculture

    Co-Author: Christiane Weirauch (she/her/hers) – University of California

  • 3:42 PM - 3:52 PM Pacific
    Considerations for preserving lice (Insecta: Psocodea) and avenues for genomic research

    Presenting Author: Ember Clodfelter – University of Illinois

  • 3:52 PM - 4:02 PM Pacific
    Capturing genes in historical stonefly museum specimens

    Presenting Author: Anna Eichert (she/her/hers) – American Museum of Natural History

    Co-Author: Jessica L. Ware (she/her/hers) – American Museum of Natural History

  • 4:02 PM - 4:10 PM Pacific
    Break
  • 4:10 PM - 4:20 PM Pacific
    Fluid preservation best practices 101

    Presenting Author: Genevieve Anderegg – Denver Museum of Nature and Science

  • 4:20 PM - 4:30 PM Pacific
    Protocols for collecting, vouchering and digitization of aquatic Hexapoda and data uses for answering broad ecological and conservation questions

    Presenting Author: Phillip N. Hogan – Illinois Natural History Survey

    Co-Author: R. Edward Dewalt (he/him/his) – Illinois Natural History Survey

  • 4:30 PM - 4:40 PM Pacific
    Insect specimen photography: Creating windows into collections

    Presenting Author: Christopher Wirth – Purdue University

  • 4:40 PM - 4:50 PM Pacific
    Micro-CT insights into silk gland morphology from natural history collections

    Presenting Author: Amanda Markee – American Museum of Natural History

    Co-Author: Daniel Davis – Brigham Young University

    Co-Author: Hollister Herhold – American Museum of Natural History

    Co-Author: Edward Stanley – Florida Museum of Natural History

    Co-Author: Janice Edgerly-Rooks (she/her/hers) – Santa Clara University

    Co-Author: Cheryl Hayashi – American Museum of Natural History

    Co-Author: Jessica L. Ware (she/her/hers) – American Museum of Natural History

  • 4:50 PM - 5:00 PM Pacific
    Should all entomology collections be using 3D printers…and if not, why are you mistaken?

    Presenting Author: Craig Brabant (he/him/his) – University of Wisconsin