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

Moderator(s)

• RB

  Rachael Bonoan

  Providence College
  Greenville, Rhode Island
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  Rufus Isaacs

  Michigan State University
  East Lansing, Michigan

Presentations:

• 8:00 AM - 8:12 AM Pacific

  Comparing cognitive flexibility between queen and worker bumblebees
  

  Presenting Author: Smruti Pimplikar – University of Texas

  Co-Author: Jessica Buelow – University of Nevada, Reno

  Co-Author: Felicity Muth – University of Nevada, Reno
• 8:12 AM - 8:24 AM Pacific

  Detection and occupancy estimates for bumble bee species in urban and rural habitats of eastern Wisconsin
  

  Presenting Author: Mary Powley – University of Minnesota

  Co-Author: Elaine Evans (she/they) – University of Minnesota

  Co-Author: Clint Otto (he/him/his) – US Geological Survey

  Co-Author: Daniel P. Cariveau – University of Minnesota
• 8:24 AM - 8:36 AM Pacific

  Diploid male frequencies of Bombus flavifrons across a gradient of habitat development in Anchorage, Alaska
  

  Presenting Author: Blanca M. Guillén (she/her/hers) – University of California

  Co-Author: Jonathan Koch – USDA-ARS-PWA-PIRU

  Co-Author: Tien Lindsay – USDA ARS Pollinating Insect Systematic Biology Management System

  Co-Author: Hollis Woodard (she/her/hers) – University of California
• 8:36 AM - 8:48 AM Pacific

  Floral arrangement influences components in the transmission of a bumble bee (Hymenoptera: Apidae) gut pathogen
  

  Presenting Author: Emelia O. Kusi (she/her/hers) – University of Massachusetts

  Co-Author: Lynn Adler – University of Massachusetts

  Co-Author: Max Rubinstein – Wootton High School

  Co-Author: Sunny Liu – Cornell University

  Co-Author: Coco Xia – Stanford University

  Co-Author: Joshua Chang – Philips Academy Andover
• 8:48 AM - 9:00 AM Pacific

  Impact of pollen nutritional composition on Bombus impatiens health
  

  Presenting Author: Ethan Dean – Pennsylvania State University

  Co-Author: Heather Hines – Pennsylvania State University
• 9:00 AM - 9:12 AM Pacific

  Mechanisms of pathogen spillback in pollinating bees: Implications for disease spread
  

  Presenting Author: Bianca Marie Jimenez (she/her/hers) – North Carolina State University

  Co-Author: Rebecca E. Irwin – North Carolina State University
• 9:12 AM - 9:24 AM Pacific

  Pollinators in a pickle: Assessing bumble bee resilience to extreme weather under pesticide exposure in cucumber fields
  

  Presenting Author: Anupreksha Jain – University of Wisconsin

  Co-Author: Rafael Salas – University of Wisconsin-Madison

  Co-Author: Megan Humphrey – University of Wisconsin-Madison

  Co-Author: Olivia Siebert – University of Wisconsin-Madison

  Co-Author: Olivia Marie Bernauer (she/her/hers) – University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire

  Co-Author: Andrzej Affek – Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization, Polish Academy of Sciences

  Co-Author: James Crall – University of Wisconsin-Madison
• 9:24 AM - 9:36 AM Pacific

  Sunflower pollen diets reduce infection in closely related bumble bee species
  

  Presenting Author: Elyse Christine McCormick – University of Massachusetts

  Co-Author: Lynn Adler – University of Massachusetts
• 9:36 AM - 9:48 AM Pacific

  Using ten years of plant-pollinator interactions to study microbial and viral communities in subalpine bumble bees
  

  Presenting Author: Lincoln Nian Taylor (he/him/his) – University of Colorado

  Co-Author: Julian Resasco – University of Colorado

  Co-Author: Samuel D. Ramsey – University of Colorado