Undergrad Competition SysEB: Biodiversity and Morphology

Moderator(s)

• DE

  Dominic Evangelista (he/him/his)

  Assistant Professor
  Department of Biology
  University of Illinois
  Champaign, Illinois
• IM

  István Mikó

  Collections Manager
  Don Chandler Entomological Collection, Biological Sciences
  University of New Hampshire
  Strafford, New Hampshire

Presentations:

• 8:00 AM – 8:12 AM ET

  (1st Place) A preliminary taxonomic revision of Mesoamerican Nylanderia based on morphometric indices highlighting potential new species
  

  Presenting Author: Avery Beaune Roe – University of Florida

  Co-Author: Sabrina Scothorn – University of Florida

  Co-Author: Aswaj Punnath – University of Florida

  Co-Author: Yichen Li – University of Florida

  Co-Author: Jason Lee Williams (he/him/his) – University of Florida

  Co-Author: John S. LaPolla, Ph.D. – Towson University

  Co-Author: Anthony Auletta – University of Florida

  Co-Author: Andrea Lucky – University of Florida
• 8:12 AM – 8:24 AM ET

  Describing Nylanderia: Utilizing morphocharacters to delimit species boundaries and identify species level diversity
  

  Presenting Author: Christian Estevez – University of Florida

  Co-Author: Davis Judd – University of Florida

  Co-Author: Yichen Li – University of Florida

  Co-Author: Aswaj Punnath – University of Florida

  Co-Author: Anthony Auletta – University of Florida

  Co-Author: Jason Lee Williams (he/him/his) – University of Florida

  Co-Author: John S. LaPolla, Ph.D. – Towson University

  Co-Author: Andrea Lucky – University of Florida
• 8:24 AM – 8:36 AM ET

  Reclassifying Nylanderia ants based on morphological characteristics
  

  Presenting Author: Eddie Humphries – University of Florida

  Co-Author: Dagny Kaye – University of Florida

  Co-Author: Aswaj Punnath – University of Florida

  Co-Author: Yichen Li – University of Florida

  Co-Author: Jason Lee Williams (he/him/his) – University of Florida

  Co-Author: John S. LaPolla, Ph.D. – Towson University

  Co-Author: Anthony Auletta – University of Florida

  Co-Author: Andrea Lucky – University of Florida
• 8:36 AM – 8:48 AM ET

  Sequencing and assembling long, repetitive caddisfly silk genes using the latest Oxford Nanopore chemistry and pores
  

  Presenting Author: Danyon Gedris – Brigham Young University

  Co-Author: Paul Bryan Frandsen – Brigham Young University
• 8:48 AM – 9:00 AM ET

  (2nd Place) Taxonomic revision of Nylanderia (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) using morphometric analyses
  

  Presenting Author: Tabitha Vincentsen – University of Florida

  Co-Author: Athena Conde – University of Florida

  Co-Author: Aswaj Punnath – University of Florida

  Co-Author: Yichen Li – University of Florida

  Co-Author: Jason Lee Williams (he/him/his) – University of Florida

  Co-Author: John S. LaPolla, Ph.D. – Towson University

  Co-Author: Anthony Auletta – University of Florida

  Co-Author: Andrea Lucky – University of Florida
• 9:00 AM – 9:12 AM ET

  This tree is on FIRE: Evolution of Pyrophorini (Elateridae)
  

  Presenting Author: Anna Marie Blight – Brigham Young University

  Co-Author: Gareth S. Powell – Florida State Collection of Arthropods

  Co-Author: Laura Sutherland (she/her/hers) – Brigham Young University

  Co-Author: Seth M. Bybee – Brigham Young University
• 9:12 AM – 9:24 AM ET

  Whoever said size mattered? Male genital allometry in the black soldier fly, Hermetia illucens, is hypoallometric
  

  Presenting Author: Lisa Nicole Rollinson – Texas A&M University

  Co-Author: Noah Lemke (he/they) – Texas A&M University

  Co-Author: Scott Crawford – Texas A&M University

  Co-Author: James Woolley – Texas A&M University

  Co-Author: Jeffery K. K. Tomberlin (he/him/his) – Texas A&M University