Member Symposia

Sunday, November 15, 2015

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8:00 AM-12:00 PM


Member Symposium: The Nascent Mason Bee Industry: Researchers, Entrepreneurs, and Agriculturists Partnering for Pollination Solutions
Derek R. Artz and Cory Stanley-Stahr

Member Symposium: What Are The Costs and Benefits for Neonicotinoid Seed Treatments in Field Crops?
Matt O'Neal and Erin W. Hodgson

Member Symposium: Brown Marmorated Stink Bug Working Group: Synergizing IPM Research to Deliver Solutions
Nik G. Wiman, Kevin Rice, Tracy C. Leskey and George C. Hamilton

Member Symposium: Beyond Corn and Soybeans...Challenges to Integrated Pest Management in Specialty Crops
Amber Vinchesi, Matthew Klein and Silvia Rondon

Member Symposium: Bed Bugs, Cimex lectularius, in Sensitive Areas: Research and Mitigation Techniques
Sherry Glick

Member Symposium: Colony Collapse Disorder Eight Years Later: What We Know Now That We Didn’t Know Then
Dennis vanEngelsdorp and Richard Levine

Member Symposium: Greenhouse Insect Management – Critical Questions Answered with Collaborative Research
Luis A. Caņas

8:30 AM-10:30 AM


Member Symposium: Ecological Pest Management: Key for Sustainable Agricultural Production
Megha N. Parajulee and Abdul Hakeem

11:30 AM-3:30 PM


Member Symposium: Synergy in Arthropod Genomics: Integrative Solutions to Functional and Evolutionary Biology
Amelia Lindsey, James Ricci and Eric Smith

12:30 PM-3:30 PM


Member Symposium: Acarological Society of America Honors James Amrine
Mariam Lekveishvili and Enrico de Lillo

1:15 PM-3:15 PM


Member Symposium: Integrated Pest Management Programs for Tropical Crops
Rangaswamy R. Muniappan

Member Symposium: Thysanoptera of Arid Area
Sabah Razi

Member Symposium: Research Advances in Root Feeding Insect Pests and Their Management
Sudan Gyawaly and Roshan Manandhar

Member Symposium: Synergy and Partnering with Retired and Emeriti Seniors in Professional Societies (ESA, ASA, CSSA AND SSSA) on their Involvement in Research, Teaching, Special Interests, Travel, and Consulting in Retirement
Kenneth A. Sorensen and Ken Pruess

Member Symposium: Using Animation and Music as Tools for Communicating Science
Anthony S. DiMeglio

Member Symposium: The Art of Writing a Successful Research Paper
Elliot Shubert

Tuesday, November 17, 2015

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8:00 AM-12:00 PM


Member Symposium: Partnerships for Developing Synergistic Solutions Addressing an Invasive Soybean Pest: A Six-Year Study of the Kudzu Bug Megacopta cribraria
Peter Nelson, Steven Reyna and Alejandro Del Pozo

Member Symposium: Preparing for the Future - What Every Student Should Know About Getting a Job or Finding a Career
Janet Hurley and Robert Davis

Member Symposium: Stored-Product Entomology: Partnerships Across and Within Disciplines
Brent Elliott and Zhaorigetu Chen

1:30 PM-5:30 PM


Member Symposium: Entomology - Partnering with Small Liberal Arts Colleges
Kirk J. Larsen, Carrie Hall and Daniel Howard

Board Certified Entomologist's (BCE) Member Symposium:  State of the Art Insect Monitoring Approaches
Laura S. Higgins and Shripat Kamble

Member Symposium: Orthopteroids: A Nexus of Synergy Between Scientific Disciplines and Innovative Partnerships
Derek Woller

Member Symposium: Games, Comics, and Social Media: Outreach Education in Entomology
Carly M. Tribull and Morgan Jackson

Member Symposium: The Bee-Soil Interface: Exploring the Role of Soils in Wild Bee Nesting and Success
Alexandra Harmon-Threatt

Late Breaking Symposium: A Nexus of Agriculture – Honey Bee Health and Commodity Crop Production: Collision Course or Road to Cooperation?
Caydee Savinelli, Jay P. Overmyer, Iain Kelly and Dick Rogers

Member Symposium: Ecological Engineering to Improve Microbial Control Agents
Surendra Dara and Robert W. Behle

2:30 PM-5:30 PM


Member Symposium: Insects in the City: Urban Ecology and Human Influence on Insect Populations
David Lowenstein and Scott Prajzner

Wednesday, November 18, 2015

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8:00 AM-12:00 PM


Member Symposium: Advances in Pest Management for Turfgrass and Ornamentals
R. Murphey Coy

Member Symposium: Synergies in Entomophagy: Taking Insect Eating to the Next Level
Marianne Shockley and John Guyton

Member Symposium: Urban Soil Ecology - A New Frontier
Parwinder Grewal, Katalin Szlavecz, Richard Pouyat and Douglas S. Richmond

Member Symposium: Leadership in Entomology
Swapna Priya Rajarapu, Harit K. Bal and Ameya D. Gondhalekar

Member Symposium: Integrating and Synergizing Multidisciplinary Approaches in Science: 3rd Latin American/Hispanic Symposium
Raul Medina, Silvia Rondon, Ana Legrand and Steven Reyna

Member Symposium: Arthropod Mediated Associational Effects Among Native and Non-Native Plants
Sarah O'Neill and Carl Clem

Member Symposium: Vegetation Management for Beneficial Insect Conservation in Agroecosystems
Mary Rogers and Christopher R. Philips

Member Symposium: Citizen Scientists Contribute to Conservation
Theresa E. Andrew and W. Wyatt Hoback

10:00 AM-12:00 PM


Member Symposium: Expand your Brand, Publicize your Publication, and Sell Yourself Well: The Marketing and Communications Toolbox that Every Scientist Needs
Rayda Krell and Richard Levine

1:30 PM-3:30 PM


Member Symposium: Use of Arthropods in Wildlife and Applied Ecology: Recognition of Our Common Goals
Steven Grodsky and Adam Mitchell

1:30 PM-5:30 PM


Member Symposium: Challenges Associated with Managing Bt Resistance: Theory, Regulation, and Implementation
Nathan Little, Nicholas Seiter and K. Clint Allen

Member Symposium: Gearing Up Interdisciplinary Science Literacy for the Next Generation
Andrine A. Shufran, Marianne Shockley, Rebecca Baldwin and John Guyton

Member Symposium: How Cool is Entomology?
Brian G. Rector and Theresa L. Pitts-Singer

Member Symposium: Pollen Analysis in Bee Research: Sharing Discoveries, Methods, and Resources
Juliana Rangel, Pierre Lau, Morgan Carr-Markell and Chia-Hua Lin

Member Symposium: Regulatory Taxonomy: The Study of Organisms and How You "Phylum"
Laura Jeffers and Esther Serrano

Late Breaking Symposium: Monarch Butterfly Conservation in North America: Challenges and Opportunities
Sue Blodgett and Steven Bradbury

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