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10-Minute Presentation

Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity

10-min: SysEB, Evolution 1 - Lineages Through Time

Sunday, November 9, 2025
1:30 PM - 5:45 PM Pacific
Location: Oregon Convention Center, B113, OCC

Oral Presentation

Presentations:

  • 1:30 PM - 1:42 PM Pacific
    Aposematism is a major axis of phenotypic diversification in nymphalid butterflies

    Presenting Author: Moritz David Luerig – Florida Museum of Natural History

  • 1:42 PM - 1:54 PM Pacific
    The diversity and longevity of the earliest ants

    Presenting Author: Phillip Barden (he/him/his) – New Jersey Institute of Technology

  • 1:54 PM - 2:06 PM Pacific
    Convergent evolution of antipredatory bioacoustic traits in bombycoid moths (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae, Sphingidae)

    Presenting Author: Paul Masonick – Florida Museum of Natural History

    Co-Author: Pamela Rivera – Boise State University

    Co-Author: Jesse Barber – Boise State University

    Co-Author: Akito Y. Kawahara, Ph.D. (he/him/his) – Florida Museum of Natural History

  • 2:06 PM - 2:18 PM Pacific
    Cyclical parthenogenesis (like in many aphids) can boost evolvability on rugged adaptive landscapes

    Presenting Author: Nate B. Hardy – Auburn University

  • 2:18 PM - 2:30 PM Pacific
    Does sexual competition predict horn polyphenism in the bull-horned dung beetle?

    Presenting Author: Nathan J. McConnell, PhD (he/him/his) – University of California

  • 2:30 PM - 2:42 PM Pacific
    Ecological and evolutionary bases of nocturnal insects’ rapid adaptation to a brighter night sky – a very long-term study and a genome wide association study

    Presenting Author: Qian Tang (he/him/his) – Harvard University

    Co-Author: Avalon Owens – Harvard University

    Co-Author: Wei-Ping Chan – Harvard University

    Co-Author: Michael Crossley (he/him/his) – University of Delaware

    Co-Author: David Owens – University of Delaware

    Co-Author: Kristian Holmstrom – Rutgers University

    Co-Author: Ben Sammarco (he/him/his) – University of Delaware

  • 2:42 PM - 2:54 PM Pacific
    Break
  • 2:54 PM - 3:06 PM Pacific
    Evolution and function of GH28 pectinases in cerambycid beetles: Insights from Neoclytus acuminatus

    Presenting Author: Na Ra Shin – University of Memphis

    Co-Author: Jacob Corcoran – USDA-ARS

    Co-Author: Norman Best – Agricultural Research Service (ARS), Midwest Area / Research, Education, and Economics (REE)

    Co-Author: Rich Adams – University of Arkansas

    Co-Author: Duane McKenna – University of Memphis

  • 3:06 PM - 3:18 PM Pacific
    Insects demonstrate unparalleled capacity to reflect infrared solar radiation

    Presenting Author: Terry McGlynn (he/him/his) – California State University Dominguez Hills

    Co-Author: Yume Kamal, M.S. in progress – California State University

    Co-Author: Megan Barkdull – Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County

    Co-Author: Cassandra Bennett – California State University

    Co-Author: Marivi Angel – California State University Dominguez Hills

    Co-Author: Allison Shultz – Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County

  • 3:18 PM - 3:30 PM Pacific
    Local adaptation and ecological speciation in a tritrophic-context: Site-specific eco-evolutionary dynamics in a gallformer-parasitoid system

    Presenting Author: Thomas H.Q. Powell – Binghamton University

    Co-Author: Pheobe M. Deneen – Binghamton University

    Co-Author: Philomena Coles-Carruthers – Tufts University

    Co-Author: Linyi Zhang – George Washington University

  • 3:42 PM - 3:54 PM Pacific
    Revealing how social insects create living structures using advanced scanning technology and artificial intelligence

    Presenting Author: Kayla Stan – University of Southern Mississippi

    Co-Author: Karen Y. Robles Lopez (she/her/hers) – University of Southern Mississippi

    Co-Author: Kaitlin M. Baudier – University of Southern Mississippi

  • 3:54 PM - 4:06 PM Pacific
    Sociality and nesting strategy are evolutionarily correlated and predict where bees can live

    Presenting Author: Lena Heinrich (she/her/hers) – University of Michigan

    Co-Author: Aline Martins, PhD – University of Michigan

    Co-Author: Thais Vasconcelos, PhD – University of Michigan

  • 4:06 PM - 4:18 PM Pacific
    Break
  • 4:18 PM - 4:30 PM Pacific
    Sublethal costs of infection reduce performance of collective tasks in social insects: A modelling study

    Presenting Author: Supraja Rajagopal (they/them/theirs) – University of Georgia

    Co-Author: Takao Sasaki – University of Rochester

    Co-Author: Richard Hall – University of Georgia

  • 4:30 PM - 4:42 PM Pacific
    Temporal genomics of the monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus): An assessment of genetic diversity in response to population size decline

    Presenting Author: Johnathan Peter Hruska, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Nebraska-Lincoln

    Co-Author: Jessica L. Petersen – University of Nebraska-Lincoln

    Co-Author: Robert E. Wilson – University of Nebraska-Lincoln

    Co-Author: Wayne Thomgartin – US Geological Survey

    Co-Author: Sarah A. Sonsthagen – US Geological Survey

  • 4:42 PM - 4:54 PM Pacific
    The evolution of cheaper workers facilitated larger societies and accelerated diversification in ants

    Presenting Author: Evan P. Economo – University of Maryland

    Co-Author: Arthur Matte – Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge

    Co-Author: Benoit Guénard – The University of Hong Kong

    Co-Author: Shubham Gautam – Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology

    Co-Author: Fumika Azuma – Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology

    Co-Author: Julian Katzke (he/him/his) – Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology

    Co-Author: Francisco Hita Garcia – Center for Integrative Biodiversity Discovery,Museum für Naturkunde

    Co-Author: Thomas van de Kamp – Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

  • 4:54 PM - 5:06 PM Pacific
    The influence of diet on cuticular profiles in ants

    Presenting Author: Tyler C. Murdock (he/him/his) – University of Central Florida

    Co-Author: Christina Kwapich, PhD – University of Central Florida

  • 5:06 PM - 5:18 PM Pacific
    Timing is everything: Maternal and embryonic heat exposure reduces feminization rates in a Wolbachia-infected spider

    Presenting Author: Matthew R. Doremus – University of Illinois

    Co-Author: Veronica Kegley – University of Kentucky

    Co-Author: Jennifer White (she/her/hers) – University of Kentucky