29- Graduate Student Ten-Minute Paper Competition: SysEB

Monday, November 11, 2013: 8:24 AM-12:00 PM
Meeting Room 9 AB (Austin Convention Center)
Moderators:
Donald A. Yee
Cecilia Dao


8:24 AM
Welcoming Remarks
8:27 AM
Double trouble:  Two distinct endosymbiotic manipulations of the spider Mermessus fradeorum
Meghan M. Curry, University of Kentucky ; Jennifer A. White, University of Kentucky
8:51 AM
Social immunity and housekeeping behaviors in social aphids
Sarah P. Lawson, Vanderbilt University ; Patrick Abbot, Vanderbilt University
9:03 AM
Symbiont diversification in ambrosia beetles: Diversity of fungi associated with exotic scolytine beetles
Craig Bateman, University of Florida ; Jiri Hulcr, University of Florida ; Paul E. Kendra, USDA-ARS ; Adam Black, University of Florida
9:27 AM
Meddling neighbors induce an untimely end for foragers of the Florida harvester ant, Pogonomyrmex badius
Christina Kwapich, Florida State University ; Walter R. Tschinkel, Florida State University
9:39 AM
Withdrawn
9:51 AM
Break
10:01 AM
Withdrawn
10:13 AM
Assessment of the long term survivability of relocated  Nicrophorus americanus (ABB) and an identification and breakdown of male N. spp. pheromones
Kyle Risser, Oklahoma State University ; Thomas Ferrari, Oklahoma State University ; Carmen M. Greenwood, Oklahoma State University
10:25 AM
The aggregation pheromones of the aphid predator, Hippodamia convergens
Christopher A. Wheeler, University of California ; Ring T. Cardé, University of California
10:37 AM
Do adult mosquitoes support terrestrial predatory invertebrates? A study of emergent mosquitoes from tires piles and the surrounding spider communities
William C. Glasgow, University of Southern Mississippi ; Donald A. Yee, University of Southern Mississippi ; Ashley Bowler, University of Southern Mississippi
10:49 AM
11:01 AM
How to capture the most species: Assessing malaise trap sampling protocols
Shelby E. Stedenfeld, University of Kentucky ; Michael J. Sharkey, University of Kentucky
11:13 AM
Predation risk shapes thermal physiology of a predaceous damselfly, Enallagma vesperum (Odonata: Coenagrionidae)
Lauren E. Culler, Dartmouth College ; Mark A. McPeek, Dartmouth College ; Matthew P. Ayres, Dartmouth College
11:25 AM
Concluding Remarks