Graduate Student Poster Display Competition, SysEB: Methods, Behavior, Morphology, Interspecific Interactions

Monday, December 13, 2010: 8:00 AM-6:00 PM
Grand Exhibit Hall (Town and Country Hotel and Convention Center)


A practical emergence chamber for collecting Coleoptera from rotting wood
Michael L. Ferro, Louisiana State University ; Christopher E. Carlton, Louisiana State University
Using next-generation sequencing to identify SSRs in de novo sequences
Sarah P. Lawson, Vanderbilt University ; John G Gibbons, Vanderbilt University ; Antonis Rokas, Vanderbilt University ; Patrick Abbot, Vanderbilt University
Evaluation of molecular markers for genetic diversity studies of western tarnished plant bug (Lygus hesperus Knight)
Ram B. Shrestha, Texas AgriLife Research and Extension Center ; Megha N. Parajulee, Texas AgriLife Research and Extension Center ; Stanley Carroll, Texas AgriLife Research and Extension Center
Picky eaters:  Foraging specialization in a superorganism is affected by individual age and colony senescence; a look at bumble bees (Bombus impatiens)
Jessica Hagbery, University of California, San Diego ; James C. Nieh, University of California, San Diego
Female house crickets, Acheta domesticus, use multiple modes of communication to assess size in males
Brent Stoffer, California State University, Fullerton ; Sean E Walker, California State University, Fullerton
Adaptive leg morphology of the small hive beetle, Aethina tumida Murray (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae)
Edward Blake Atkinson, University of Florida ; Andrew R. Cline, CDFA ; James Douglas Ellis, University of Florida
Molecular and morphometric analysis of feral honey bees
Katherine Darger, University of Delaware ; Deborah A. Delaney, University of Delaware
Phenological differences in species composition and abundance of male velvet ants (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae) in Wisconsin
Craig M. Brabant, University of Wisconsin - Madison ; Daniel K. Young, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Compensatory parasitism in a multiple parasite-host system:  Water mites, gregarines and damselflies
Julia J Mlynarek, Carleton University ; Mark R Forbes, Carleton University
The exotic Nylanderia flavipes (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Cleveland, Ohio, and its impact on local ant diversity
Kaloyan Ivanov, Cleveland State University ; Joe B. Keiper, Virginia Museum of Natural History
Biogeographic patterns of host specificity in Thai Varroa jacobsoni
Ryan D. Kuster, University of North Carolina-Greensboro ; Deborah Smith, University of Kansas ; Olav Rueppell, University of North Carolina at Greensboro