Grad 10-min Competition: MUVE, Ecology

Moderator(s)

• 

  Benjamin Nyman (he/him/his)

  Postdoctoral Associate
  University of California
  Riverside, California
• TJ

  Tammi Johnson

  Associate Professor of Wildlife Disease Ecology
  AgriLife Research
  Texas A&M University
  Uvalde, Texas

Presentations:

• 10:30 AM - 10:42 AM Pacific

  Are urban conservation practices unintentionally increasing the prevalence of nuisance and vector mosquitoes?
  

  Presenting Author: Hannah Dehus, M.S. – The Ohio State University

  Co-Author: Caralee Shepard – The Ohio State University

  Co-Author: Samuel F. Ward, M.S., Ph.D. (he/him/his) – The Ohio State University

  Co-Author: Mary M. Gardiner, M.S., Ph.D. (she/her/hers) – The Ohio State University

  Co-Author: Megan E. Meuti, PhD (she/her/hers) – The Ohio State University
• 10:42 AM - 10:54 AM Pacific

  Effects of environmental conditions on German cockroach (Blattella germanica) survival
  

  Presenting Author: Allison Lopina – University of Kentucky

  Co-Author: Zachary DeVries – University of Kentucky
• 10:54 AM - 11:06 AM Pacific

  Effects of micronutrient supplementation on the life-history traits and thermal responses of the black soldier fly (Hermetia illucens)
  

  Presenting Author: Tara McNeil – Texas A&M University

  Co-Author: Jeffery K. Tomberlin, PhD, D-ABFE (he/him/his) – Texas A&M University
• 11:06 AM - 11:18 AM Pacific

  Geometric difference between shelter tubes and tunnels of the Asian subterranean termite, Coptotermes gestroi (Wasmann) (Blattodea: Heterotermitidae)
  

  Presenting Author: Kukhyun Lim – University of Florida

  Co-Author: Nan-Yao Su – University of Florida
• 11:18 AM - 11:30 AM Pacific

  Impact of the prescribed burning on tick-borne pathogen dynamics in Amblyomma americanum
  

  Presenting Author: Andrea Salazar – Kansas State University

  Co-Author: Cassandra Olds – Kansas State University
• 11:30 AM - 11:42 AM Pacific

  Investigations into the comparative role of hydrogen peroxide in social bees and links to nutritional stress
  

  Presenting Author: Audrey Harrod (she/her/hers) – University of Georgia

  Co-Author: Lewis Bartlett – University of Georgia
• 11:42 AM - 11:54 AM Pacific

  Life history of Turkestan cockroaches (Periplaneta lateralis)
  

  Presenting Author: Isha Budha Budha Magar (she/her/hers) – New Mexico State University
• 12:06 PM - 12:18 PM Pacific

  Patterns of tick infestation on songbirds: Implications for niche partitioning and pathogen transmission
  

  Presenting Author: Ningzhu Bai – The Ohio State University

  Co-Author: Risa Pesapane – The Ohio State University
• 12:18 PM - 12:30 PM Pacific

  Population genetics of the Gulf Coast tick
  

  Presenting Author: Afsoon Sabet – The Ohio State University

  Co-Author: Samuel F. Ward, M.S., Ph.D. (he/him/his) – The Ohio State University

  Co-Author: Michael G. Sovic – Freedom Genomics LLC

  Co-Author: Gulf Coast Tick Consortium on Population Genetics – The Ohio State University

  Co-Author: Risa Pesapane – The Ohio State University
• 12:30 PM - 12:42 PM Pacific

  Quantifying ecological niche requirements for Amblyomma maculatum morphotypes
  

  Presenting Author: Taylor Jo Chapman – Texas A&M University

  Co-Author: Geoff Lynn – Texas A&M AgriLife Research

  Co-Author: Taylor Donaldson (he/him/his) – Texas A&M AgriLife Research

  Co-Author: Pete Teel – Texas A&M AgriLife Research

  Co-Author: Tammi Lynne Johnson – Texas A&M University