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Student Poster Display Competition

Plant-Insect Ecosystems

Student Competition

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Undergrad Poster Competition: FIT, P-IE, and SysEB, Education and Biodiversity

Weed or hidden treasure? How common purslane affects garden food webs

Monday, November 10, 2025
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Pacific
Location: Exhibit Hall A-A1, OCC
Poster Display Student Competition

    Presenting Author(s)

  • SR

    Sophia Ranes

    University of Illinois
    Urbana, Illinois

    • Co-Author(s)

  • JC

    Joseph Caya

    University of Illinois
    Urbana, Illinois

  • CB

    Carmen Blubaugh

    Research Scientist
    University of Illinois
    Champaign, Illinois

  • MM

    Mitzi Milojkovic

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
    Champaign, Illinois

  • EM

    Emily Ma

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
    Champaign, Illinois

  • RH

    Rose Hou

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
    Champaign, Illinois

The Bugs2School project is a collaboration between undergraduate students at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and area schools to design accessible insect ecology curricular resources for school gardens and citizen science projects. This year, our experiment focused on how the addition of Portulaca oleracea benefited generalist predator populations in garden settings.