Grad 10-min Competition: SysEB, Hymenoptera

Moderator(s)

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  Anwar Green (he/him/his)

  PHEFA Fellow/ Laboratory Entomologist
  Public Health Entomology For All
  Atlanta, Georgia
• 

  Lars Straub, PhD

  Lecturer, Group leader
  Department of Clinical Research and Veterinary Public Health
  Institute of Bee Health / University of Bern
  Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Presentations:

• 8:00 AM - 8:12 AM Pacific

  Integrating behavioral observations with stable isotopic data to clarify ant trophic ecology
  

  Presenting Author: Eleanor M. Fausett (she/her/hers) – University of California

  Co-Author: David Holway – University of California
• 8:12 AM - 8:24 AM Pacific

  A matter of distance: Native bee lineages and diversity in fragmented landscapes
  

  Presenting Author: Jessica Mullins (she/her/hers) – University of California

  Co-Author: Silas Bossert (he/him/his) – Washington State University

  Co-Author: Keng-Lou James Hung (he/him/his) – The University of Oklahoma

  Co-Author: David Holway – University of California
• 8:24 AM - 8:36 AM Pacific

  Brood parasitism reduces but does not prevent Bombus terrestris reproductive success
  

  Presenting Author: Sofia K.P Dartnell (she/her/hers) – University of Cambridge

  Co-Author: Lynn V. Dicks, FRES (she/her/hers) – University of Cambridge
• 8:36 AM - 8:48 AM Pacific

  Environmental correlates of diversification within the bee genus Melissodes
  

  Presenting Author: Christopher G. Wilson – University of Arkansas

  Co-Author: Jeremy Beaulieu – University of Arkansas

  Co-Author: Eric Hagen – University of Toronto
• 8:48 AM - 9:00 AM Pacific

  Features of agricultural landscapes that influence taxonomic and functional diversity of wild bees
  

  Presenting Author: Anna Carson Loudermelt – California Polytechnic State University

  Co-Author: Hamutahl Cohen – University of California

  Co-Author: Elizabeth Scordato – California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

  Co-Author: Adam Lambert – University of California, Santa Barbara
• 9:00 AM - 9:12 AM Pacific

  Host-symbiont interactions across a sociality continuum in halictid bees
  

  Presenting Author: Charlotte Knopp (she/her/hers) – Princeton University

  Co-Author: Maya Cabrera – Princeton University

  Co-Author: Callum Kingwell – Princeton University

  Co-Author: Eli Wyman – Princeton University

  Co-Author: Andrea Graham – Princeton University

  Co-Author: Sarah Kocher – Princeton University

  Co-Author: William Wcislo – Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
• 9:12 AM - 9:24 AM Pacific

  Narrow niches, narrow ranges: Linking floral specialization to geographic vulnerability in bees
  

  Presenting Author: Charles Thrift (he/him/his) – University of California

  Co-Author: Thomas Wood – Naturalis Biodiversity Center

  Co-Author: Katja Seltmann – University of California
• 9:24 AM - 9:36 AM Pacific

  The queen's gambit: Future queens in Polistes utilize an alternative to the starvation response pathway to induce reproductive diapause
  

  Presenting Author: Laura Elizabeth Miller (she/her/hers) – Drexel University

  Co-Author: Sean O'Donnell – Drexel University

  Co-Author: Kari Lenhart – Drexel University, Biology Department
• 9:36 AM - 9:48 AM Pacific

  To what degree does elk abundance alter the ground-nesting bee community of sagebrush steppe ecosystems?
  

  Presenting Author: Walker Bensch – University of Wyoming

  Co-Author: Lusha Tronstad, PhD – University of Wyoming