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Student 10-Minute Presentation Competition

Plant-Insect Ecosystems

Student Competition

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Grad 10-min Competition: P-IE, Honey Bees

Monday, November 10, 2025
8:00 AM - 10:00 AM Pacific
Location: Oregon Convention Center, D137-138, OCC

Oral Presentation Student Competition

Presentations:

  • 8:00 AM - 8:12 AM Pacific
    Catch my drift: Using computer vision to study honey bee drifting's effect on pest and pathogen transmission

    Presenting Author: Curtis H. Coleman (he/him/his) – Mississippi State University

    Co-Author: Elizabeth Walsh (she/her/hers) – USDA-ARS

    Co-Author: Garrett Street – Mississippi State University

  • 8:12 AM - 8:24 AM Pacific
    European foulbrood in honey bees: Identifying potential relationship between infection and gene response

    Presenting Author: Mckaela Hobday – Washington State University

    Co-Author: Ramesh Sagili (he/him/his) – Oregon State University

    Co-Author: Priya Chakrabarti Basu (she/her/hers) – Washington State University

  • 8:24 AM - 8:36 AM Pacific
    Honey bees on public land: How experimentally-induced honey bee pressure in a public forest impacts native bee interactions

    Presenting Author: Nicki Bailey (she/her/hers) – Colorado State University

    Co-Author: John Mola – Colorado State University

    Co-Author: Seth Davis – Colorado State University

  • 8:36 AM - 8:48 AM Pacific
    Revamping current pest management tools to target Varroa destructor

    Presenting Author: Petra Hafker (she/her/hers) – Cornell University

    Co-Author: Christophe Duplais – Cornell University

  • 8:48 AM - 9:00 AM Pacific
    Survey of genetic diversity and pathogen prevalence in commercial beekeeping operations across southwest Saudi Arabia: Implications for management and selective breeding

    Presenting Author: Keegan Nichols – Texas A&M University

    Co-Author: Juliana Rangel – Texas A&M University

    Co-Author: Tonya Shepherd – Texas A&M University

  • 9:12 AM - 9:24 AM Pacific
    Viral transmission dynamics during pollination: A temporal assessment of RNA viral transmission associated with honey bees (Apis mellifera) and almond pollen during a mass monoculture bloom

    Presenting Author: Sara Herrejon Chavez – University of California

    Co-Author: Nina Ariadne Sokolov (she/her/hers) – University of California, Berkeley

    Co-Author: Michael Boots – University of California