10-min: SysEB, Microbiomes and Symbioses

Moderator(s)

• MH

  Martha Hunter (she/her/hers)

  Professor
  University of Arizona
  Tucson, Arizona
• 

  Signe White (she/her/hers)

  Postdoctoral Researcher
  Integrative Biology
  University of California
  Berkeley, California

Presentations:

• 1:30 PM - 1:42 PM Pacific

  Adaptive genome evolution of aphid symbionts: A case study in Lachnus tropicalis
  

  Presenting Author: Tomonari Nozaki – National Institute for Basic Biology

  Co-Author: Shuji Shigenobu – National Institute for Basic Biology
• 1:42 PM - 1:54 PM Pacific

  Comparing symbiont mediated detoxification of brassicaceous and solanaceous plant toxins by gut microbes of herbivorous insects
  

  Presenting Author: Rachel C. Vargas (she/her/hers) – University of Texas

  Co-Author: Alison Ravenscraft (she/her/hers) – University of Texas at Arlington

  Co-Author: Jaden Rankin – University of Texas

  Co-Author: Aidan Mitchell Skinner – University of Texas
• 1:54 PM - 2:06 PM Pacific

  Defensive symbiont diversity contributes to parasitoid coexistence
  

  Presenting Author: Ben Haines-Eitzen (he/him/his) – University of Georgia

  Co-Author: Kenedie Jones – University of Georgia

  Co-Author: Conor Fair – University of Georgia

  Co-Author: Roy Attila Kucuk – University of Georgia

  Co-Author: Kerry Oliver – University of Georgia
• 2:06 PM - 2:18 PM Pacific

  Going it alone: Cochineal insects (Dactylopiidae: Hemiptera) do not have an obligate nutritional symbiont
  

  Presenting Author: Martha S. Hunter (she/her/hers) – University of Arizona

  Co-Author: Suzanne Kelly (she/her/hers) – The University of Arizona, Entomology Dept

  Co-Author: Iain Paterson – Rhodes University

  Co-Author: Einat Zchori-Fein (she/her/hers) – Agricultural Reserach Organization

  Co-Author: Alison Ravenscraft (she/her/hers) – University of Texas at Arlington
• 2:18 PM - 2:30 PM Pacific

  Insect growth regulators interfere with enzymatic activities in soils under a maize–soybean cropping system
  

  Presenting Author: Ana Flavia Freitas Gomes – University of São Paulo

  Co-Author: Ana Paula Arguelho Planez Diniz – University of São Paulo

  Co-Author: Fernando L. Cônsoli – University of São Paulo
• 2:30 PM - 2:42 PM Pacific

  Interactions in the tangled bank: Fungus-growing ants as an ecological model for complex species networks
  

  Presenting Author: Katherine Malinski – National Museum of Natural History

  Co-Author: Jeffrey Sosa-Calvo – National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution

  Co-Author: Ted R. Schultz – Smithsonian Institution
• 2:42 PM - 2:54 PM Pacific

  Microbiome-mediated constraints on host-plant switching in specialist bees
  

  Presenting Author: Charles Bradley – University of Arizona

  Co-Author: Wendy Moore, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Arizona
• 2:54 PM - 3:06 PM Pacific

  Multi-scale genetic diversity in heritable symbioses: Insights into symbiont population structure
  

  Presenting Author: Younghwan Kwak – University of California

  Co-Author: Gordon Bennett – University of California Merced
• 3:06 PM - 3:18 PM Pacific

  Probiotics as a potential strategy to increase success in Hawaiian picture-wing Drosophila reintroduction efforts
  

  Presenting Author: Matthew J. Medeiros – University of Hawaii

  Co-Author: William Haines – University of Hawaii

  Co-Author: Janis Matsunaga – Hawaii DLNR, Division of Forestry & Wildlife

  Co-Author: Joanne Yew – University of Hawaii at Manoa

  Co-Author: Don Price – UNLV
• 3:18 PM - 3:30 PM Pacific

  Timing is everything: Population differences in antiviral gene expression in Plodia interpunctella
  

  Presenting Author: Signe White (she/her/hers) – University of California

  Co-Author: Elizabeth Gomez Cortez – University of California, Berkeley

  Co-Author: Michael Boots – University of California