Akito Y. Kawahara, Ph.D.

Professor and Curator
Florida Museum of Natural History
Gainesville, Florida

Presentation(s):

• Studies in the evolution of Noctuoidea: An integrated approach

  Sunday, November 9, 2025
  11:12 AM - 11:24 AM Pacific

• Designing for retention: Emotion as a structural tool in entomological outreach

  Sunday, November 9, 2025
  10:36 AM - 10:48 AM Pacific

• New insights into the evolution of bat-moth behavioral dynamics

  Sunday, November 9, 2025
  2:06 PM - 2:18 PM Pacific

• Convergent evolution of antipredatory bioacoustic traits in bombycoid moths (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae, Sphingidae)

  Sunday, November 9, 2025
  1:54 PM - 2:06 PM Pacific

• Life stage-specific expression of sericin genes of Actias luna (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae)

  Sunday, November 9, 2025
  4:30 PM - 4:42 PM Pacific

• An integrative multi-omics approach towards understanding pyrrolizidine alkaloid sequestration in bella moth (Utetheisa ornatrix)

  Monday, November 10, 2025
  8:00 AM - 8:12 AM Pacific

• Assessing the availability of protected habitats for an imperiled Florida butterfly

  Monday, November 10, 2025
  8:12 AM - 8:24 AM Pacific

• Morphological adaptations of silk glands across Lepidoptera

  Monday, November 10, 2025
  8:48 AM - 9:00 AM Pacific

• Silk gland structure in terrestrial and aquatic lepidopteran larvae

  Monday, November 10, 2025
  9:00 AM - 9:12 AM Pacific

• Modeling ecological niches in disjunct populations of an at-risk butterfly under global change

  Monday, November 10, 2025
  8:36 AM - 8:48 AM Pacific

• Spatial expression of silk genes in aquatic moths

  Monday, November 10, 2025
  9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Pacific

• Ct scanning provides 3D visualization of Manduca sexta silk glands

  Monday, November 10, 2025
  11:06 AM - 11:18 AM Pacific

• Phylogeny of bagworms (Lepidoptera: Psychidae): A preliminary result from anchored hybrid enrichment data

  Monday, November 10, 2025
  11:42 AM - 11:54 AM Pacific

• The complex gene evolution of sericins, a group of lepidopteran silk fiber coating proteins

  Wednesday, November 12, 2025
  11:30 AM - 11:42 AM Pacific