23- Graduate Student Ten-Minute Paper Competition: SysEB

Monday, November 11, 2013: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Meeting Room 5 ABC (Austin Convention Center)
Moderator:
Ligia Cota Vieira


8:00 AM
Welcoming Remarks
8:12 AM
Phylogeny of North American Aphaenogaster species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) reconstructed with morphological and DNA data
Bernice DeMarco, Michigan State University ; Anthony, I. Cognato, Michigan State University
8:24 AM
The draft genome of the big-eyed arboreal ant, Pseudomyrmex gracilis
Benjamin Rubin, Field Museum of Natural History ; Corrie Moreau, Field Museum of Natural History
8:36 AM
Withdrawn
9:12 AM
Morphology of the male genitalia in Brachymyrmex Mayr (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), and their implications to the Formicine phylogeny
Christopher M. Wilson, Sam Houston State University ; Jerry L. Cook, Sam Houston State University ; Autumn Smith-Herron, Sam Houston State University
9:24 AM
Tissue-specific endopolyploidy in the giant ant, Dinoponera australis
Daniel R. Scholes, University of Illinois ; Andrew V. Suarez, University of Illinois ; Adrian A. Smith, University of Illinois ; J. Spencer Johnston, Texas A&M University ; Ken N. Paige, University of Illinois
9:36 AM
Break
9:46 AM
Withdrawn
9:58 AM
Phylogeography of Mesoamerican bumble bees (Bombus)
Michelle A. Duennes, University of Illinois
10:10 AM
Systematics and taxonomy of the ant parasitoid Kapala (Eucharitidae: Hymenoptera)
Elizabeth Murray, University of California ; John Heraty, University of California
10:34 AM
Phylogenetics of chelonine wasps (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) with special reference to the Australian fauna
Rebecca Kittel, University of Adelaide ; John Jennings, University of Adelaide ; Andrew D. Austin, University of Adelaide
10:58 AM
Internal anatomy of the enlarged metatibia of gasteruptiid wasps (Hymenoptera: Gasteruptiidae)
Salvatore S. Anzaldo, Pennsylvania State University ; István Mikó, Pennsylvania State University ; Andrew R Deans, Pennsylvania State University
11:10 AM
Concluding Remarks