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

Tuesday, November 17, 2015: 1:30 PM-5:30 PM
204 AB (Convention Center)
Organizer :
Derek Woller
Moderator:
Derek Woller


1:30 PM
Introductory Remarks
1:35 PM
The phylogeography of an intriguing group of xerophile grasshoppers (Acrididae: Melanoplus: The Puer Group)
Derek Woller, Texas A&M University ; Hojun Song, Texas A&M University
1:45 PM
The utility of female genitalia characters in Mantodea
Sydney Brannoch, Cleveland Museum of Natural History ; Gavin J. Svenson, Cleveland Museum of Natural History
2:05 PM
From Proteobacteria to Phasmatodea: Partnering with the 1KITE project to time a horizontal gene transfer event
Matan Shelomi, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology ; Yannick Pauchet, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology
2:25 PM
What's happening in hoppers: Explorations of the acridid alimentary canal
Tyler Raszick, Texas A&M University ; Gabrielle Corso, Texas A&M University ; Gregory Sword, Texas A&M University ; Hojun Song, Texas A&M University
3:05 PM
Adaptations for tube living produces a silly (but fast) backwards gait in Embioptera
Janice S. Edgerly, Santa Clara University ; Thomas Libby, U.C. Berkeley ; Robert J. Full, University of California
3:25 PM
Break
3:40 PM
Manipulation of cockroaches: Why and how
S. Bradleigh Vinson, Texas A&M University ; Hong Liang, Texas A&M
4:00 PM
Withdrawn
4:20 PM
The evolutionary ecology of sexual cannibalism in praying mantids
William Brown, State University of New York at Fredonia
4:40 PM
The curious case of the post oak grasshopper
Spencer T. Behmer, Texas A&M University
5:00 PM
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