Grad 10-min Competition: SysEB, Sampling and Models

Moderator(s)

• JO

  Jill Oberski (she/her/hers)

  Postdoctoral Researcher
  Smithsonian Institution
• JK

  Julian Katzke (he/him/his)

  Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology
  Onna, Okinawa, Japan

Presentations:

• 8:00 AM - 8:12 AM Pacific

  Gall inducers, inquilines, and agastoparasites, oh my! Illuminating the evolution of Diastrophini (Cynipidae) through UCE phylogenomics
  

  Presenting Author: Charles Kelley Davis – Pennsylvania State University

  Co-Author: Louis Nastasi – Penn State University

  Co-Author: Yuanmeng Zhang – USDA-ARS: USDA Pacific Basin Agricultural Research Center

  Co-Author: Stephanie Eskew (she/her/hers) – Colorado State University

  Co-Author: Andrew Deans – Pennsylvania State University

  Co-Author: John Tooker – Pennsylvania State University

  Co-Author: Heather Hines – Pennsylvania State University
• 8:24 AM - 8:36 AM Pacific

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

  Presenting Author: Rachel L. Walsh, M.S. (she/her/hers) – Florida Museum of Natural History

  Co-Author: Robert P. Guralnick, Ph.D. – Florida Museum of Natural History

  Co-Author: Jaret C. Daniels, Ph.D. – University of Florida

  Co-Author: Akito Y. Kawahara, Ph.D. (he/him/his) – Florida Museum of Natural History
• 8:36 AM - 8:48 AM Pacific

  Nectar metabolomes contribute to pollination syndromes
  

  Presenting Author: Fiona MacNeill (she/her/hers) – University of Texas

  Co-Author: Brian Sedio, PhD – University of Texas at Austin

  Co-Author: Sarah Hunter, PhD – University of Texas at Austin

  Co-Author: Felicity Muth – University of Nevada, Reno
• 8:48 AM - 9:00 AM Pacific

  Optimizing airborne environmental DNA storage for monitoring terrestrial insects
  

  Presenting Author: Caine G. DeWitt – Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

  Co-Author: Nicolas Gustafson – Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

  Co-Author: Margaret Couvillon – Associate Professor of Entomology, Virginia Tech

  Co-Author: Shallon Jozi – Virginia Tech

  Co-Author: Gabriel Isaacman-VanWertz – Virginia Tech

  Co-Author: Chin-Cheng Scotty Yang – Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

  Co-Author: Roger Schurch – Virginia Tech
• 9:00 AM - 9:12 AM Pacific

  Using species distribution modelling to illuminate niche variation in lesser known crane fly species of the Nearctic
  

  Presenting Author: Sylas Marie Akulin (they/them/theirs) – North Carolina State University

  Co-Author: Gareth Powell – North Carolina State University

  Co-Author: Brian Wiegmann – North Carolina State University