Grad 10-min Competition: SysEB, Behavior, Genetics, and Morphology

Moderator(s)

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  Jose Martinez

  Research Associate
  Florida Museum of Natural History
  Gainesville, Florida
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  Tracy Liesenfelt (she/her/hers)

  University of Florida
  Gainesville, Florida

Presentations:

• 10:30 AM - 10:42 AM Pacific

  A comparative analysis of transposable element diversity and evolution across 75 bee genomes
  

  Presenting Author: Hannah Cook (she/her/hers) – Washington State University

  Co-Author: John Sproul – Brigham Young University

  Co-Author: Elizabeth Murray – Washington State University

  Co-Author: Silas Bossert (he/him/his) – Washington State University
• 10:42 AM - 10:54 AM Pacific

  Applied conservation genomics informs population management of the frosted elfin butterfly
  

  Presenting Author: Taylor Pierson (she/her/hers) – University of Florida

  Co-Author: Ivone de Bem Oliveira (she/her/hers) – University of Florida

  Co-Author: Jaret C. Daniels, Ph.D. – University of Florida
• 11:06 AM - 11:18 AM Pacific

  Genomic analyses of hybrids indicate chromosomal inversions reinforce structural genomic differences between fire ant species Solenopsis invicta and S. richteri
  

  Presenting Author: Allyson Marie Dekovich (she/her/hers) – University of Tennessee

  Co-Author: Sydney Eriksson, n/a – Hamilton College

  Co-Author: Lydia Uptain, n/a – Unviersity of North Alabama

  Co-Author: Margaret Staton, n/a – University of Tennessee, Knoxville

  Co-Author: Sean Ryan – Exponent

  Co-Author: Kenneth Ross, n/a – University of Georgia

  Co-Author: Dewayne Shoemaker – University of Tennessee
• 11:18 AM - 11:30 AM Pacific

  Modulating defense: Linking threat-specific behavioral and neurogenomic responses in the paper wasp Polistes dominula
  

  Presenting Author: Yareli Alvarez – Cornell University

  Co-Author: Corrie Moreau – Cornell University

  Co-Author: Michael Sheehan – Cornell University
• 11:30 AM - 11:42 AM Pacific

  Plasticity of head width across life stages in the burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides
  

  Presenting Author: Jordan A. Johnson (he/him/his) – Harvard University

  Co-Author: Eleanor K. Bladon – University of Cambridge

  Co-Author: Rebecca M. Kilner – University of Cambridge
• 11:42 AM - 11:54 AM Pacific

  Silk gene expression and silk gland morphology across Rhyacophila brunnea larval instars
  

  Presenting Author: Maria Gabriela Jijon (she/her/hers) – Brigham Young University

  Co-Author: Danyon Gedris – Brigham Young University

  Co-Author: Janey G. Cress (she/her/hers) – Brigham Young University

  Co-Author: Heidi Snyder – Brigham Young University

  Co-Author: Taden Lemmon – Brigham Young University

  Co-Author: C. Riley Nelson – Brigham Young University

  Co-Author: Paul Frandsen – Brigham Young University
• 11:54 AM - 12:06 PM Pacific

  Spectral variation and predator avoidance behavior of North American Deilelater with notes on natural history
  

  Presenting Author: Anna Marie Blight Parker – North Carolina State University

  Co-Author: Alexandra G. Duffy – North Carolina State University

  Co-Author: Gareth Powell – North Carolina State University