Grad 10-min Competition: SysEB, Ecology

Moderator(s)

• 

  Amy Savage

  State Entomologist
  Department of Biology
  Montana Department of Agriculture
  Cascade, Montana
• 

  Jose Pinto, PhD

  Assistant Professor
  Montana State University
  Havre, Montana

Presentations:

• 8:00 AM - 8:12 AM Pacific

  Ants in the city: How urban landscapes shape diversity in the southeast
  

  Presenting Author: Luke William Edenborough (he/him/his) – Auburn University

  Co-Author: Samantha Michele Kennett – Clemson University

  Co-Author: John Paul Hellenbrand – Kennesaw State University

  Co-Author: Clint Penick – Auburn University
• 8:12 AM - 8:24 AM Pacific

  Balancing conservation and land management: The effects of herbicide and prescribed burns on native pollinator communities
  

  Presenting Author: Nina Crawford – University of Wyoming

  Co-Author: Lusha Tronstad, PhD – University of Wyoming
• 8:24 AM - 8:36 AM Pacific

  Between a rock and a safe place: What makes a good nest for a rock-dwelling ant?
  

  Presenting Author: Purbayan Ghosh – Arizona State University

  Co-Author: Stephen Pratt – Arizona State University
• 8:36 AM - 8:48 AM Pacific

  Floral associations of nectarivorous long-mouthed crane flies (Diptera: Limoniidae)
  

  Presenting Author: Maddie Worth – Cornell University

  Co-Author: Jason Dombroskie – Cornell University

  Co-Author: Patrick O'Grady – Cornell University
• 8:48 AM - 9:00 AM Pacific

  Host specificity in palm weevils using species delimitation methods
  

  Presenting Author: Abigail E. Magland – University of Chicago

  Co-Author: Diego d S Souza – Field Museum

  Co-Author: Aline Lira – Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco

  Co-Author: Bruno de Medeiros – Field Museum
• 9:00 AM - 9:12 AM Pacific

  How does group size affect habituation in the eastern subterranean termite Reticulitermes flavipes (Blattodea: Rhinotermitidae)?
  

  Presenting Author: Quanquan Liu, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Illinois

  Co-Author: Xuguo Zhou – University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  Co-Author: Charles Abramson – Oklahoma State University
• 9:12 AM - 9:24 AM Pacific

  Local niche, geographic barriers, or both in structuring a tropical forest metacommunity of cockroaches (Blattodea non-Termitoidae)?
  

  Presenting Author: Emmy Fiorella Medina Espinoza – University of Illinois

  Co-Author: Dominic Evangelista – University of Illinois

  Co-Author: Jason Bried – Illinois Natural History Survey, Prairie Research Institute, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
• 9:24 AM - 9:36 AM Pacific

  Social information overcomes diminished sensory information to drive collective thermoregulatory behavior
  

  Presenting Author: Kerrigan B. Tobin (she/her/hers) – Marquette University

  Co-Author: Zachary Nelson – Marquette University

  Co-Author: Elsa Hahn – Marquette University

  Co-Author: Chelsea Cook – Marquette University
• 9:36 AM - 9:48 AM Pacific

  Symbiont-dependent insects and stressful temperatures using the pea aphid system (Acyrthosiphon pisum)
  

  Presenting Author: Abigail Williams (she/her/hers) – Drexel University