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Student 10-Minute Presentation Competition

Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity

Student Competition

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Grad 10-min Competition: SysEB, Taxonomy

Monday, November 10, 2025
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM Pacific
Location: Oregon Convention Center, B115, OCC

Oral Presentation Student Competition

Presentations:

  • 10:30 AM - 10:42 AM Pacific
    A revision of the Ulomini (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) of the West Indies

    Presenting Author: Benjamin Patterson (he/him/his) – Montana State University

    Co-Author: Michael Ivie – Montana State University

  • 10:42 AM - 10:54 AM Pacific
    A taxonomic review of North American Scolopendra (Scolopendromorpha: Scolopendridae)

    Presenting Author: Junkai Wang – Michigan State University

    Co-Author: Anthony Cognato – Michigan State University

  • 10:54 AM - 11:06 AM Pacific
    Exploring the phylogeny of the parasitic Neolarrini, with a focus on the North American Biastes (Hymenoptera: Apidae)

    Presenting Author: Tatiana Nicole Bush – Washington State University

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

    Co-Author: Elizabeth Murray – Washington State University

  • 11:06 AM - 11:18 AM Pacific
    Genus and species-group revision of Myrmeleontini (Neuroptera: Myrmeleontidae) using morphological characters

    Presenting Author: Yu-Hsiu Lin – Texas A&M University

    Co-Author: John Oswald – Texas A&M University

  • 11:18 AM - 11:30 AM Pacific
    Integrative taxonomy reaffirms generic boundaries in the seven genera of the Prenolepis genus group ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

    Presenting Author: Aswaj Punnath (he/him/his) – University of Florida

    Co-Author: Andrea Lucky – University of Florida

    Co-Author: Jason Williams – University of Florida

    Co-Author: John LaPolla – Towson University

  • 11:30 AM - 11:42 AM Pacific
    New data, old groups: Molecular insights into the species-group system of Australian Onthophagus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae)

    Presenting Author: Rachel Stone – Case Western Reserve University

    Co-Author: Saxton A. Natalie (she/her/hers) – Case Western Reserve University

    Co-Author: Nicole Gunter – Queensland Museum

  • 11:42 AM - 11:54 AM Pacific
    Revision of the flat bark beetle genus Ahasverus gozis, 1881: The foreign grain beetle and its relatives (Coleoptera: Silvanidae)

    Presenting Author: Nina Imara Codrington-White – Purdue University

    Co-Author: M. Andrew Johnston – Purdue University

  • 11:54 AM - 12:06 PM Pacific
    Revision of the genus Bolitonaeus Lewis, 1894 (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae)

    Presenting Author: Charla Renee Replogle (they/them/theirs) – Purdue University

    Co-Author: Aaron Smith – Purdue University

  • 12:06 PM - 12:18 PM Pacific
    Spiders of the spiny forest - fifteen new species and seven new genera of Dictynidae O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1871 (Araneae: Dictynoidea) from Madagascar and southeastern Africa

    Presenting Author: Amin Muhammad al-Jamal – California Academy of Sciences

    Co-Author: Franklyn Cala-Riquelme, PhD – California Academy of Sciences

    Co-Author: Jacob Gorneau, M.S. – California Academy of Sciences

    Co-Author: Sarah Crews, PhD – California Academy of Sciences

    Co-Author: Julia Van Orman – Macalester College

    Co-Author: Lauren Esposito, PhD – California Academy of Sciences

  • 12:18 PM - 12:30 PM Pacific
    Whole genome sequencing and assembly of an Alaskan endemic snow scorpionfly species (Mecoptera: Boreidae)

    Presenting Author: Taylor Kane – University of Alaska