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Member Symposium

From Genotype to Phenotype: Molecular Regulation of Variation in Insects

Wednesday, November 3, 2021
1:30 PM – 4:25 PM MT
Location: Colorado Convention Center, Meeting Room 201-203

In-Person

How is it that genetic evolution and developmental regulation give rise to complex and wondrous trait variation in insects? The goal of this symposium is to highlight recent advances in understanding how trait variation is regulated at the molecular level.

View our on-demand presentations, then join us in-person for live presentations and discussion.

Presentations:

  • 1:30 PM – 1:35 PM MT
    Introductory remarks
  • 1:35 PM – 1:50 PM MT
    Gene regulatory basis of butterfly wing pattern plasticity

    Presenting Author: Richard A. Fandino – Cornell University

  • 1:50 PM – 2:05 PM MT
    Host quality induces phenotypic plasticity

    Presenting Author: Laura Lavine – Washington State University

  • 2:05 PM – 2:20 PM MT
    Gene duplication and the evolution of aphid wing dimorphisms

    Presenting Author: Omid Saleh Ziabari – University of Rochester

  • 2:20 PM – 2:30 PM MT
    Break
  • 2:30 PM – 2:50 PM MT
    Genomics of differential aging in Harpegnathos saltator

    Presenting Author: Karl Glastad – University of Pennsylvania

  • 2:50 PM – 3:05 PM MT
    Plasticity in carpenter ant behavioral castes: The involvement of biological clocks and their susceptibility to behavior manipulating fungi

    Presenting Author: Charissa De Bekker – University of Central Florida

  • 3:05 PM – 3:20 PM MT
    Eco-evo-devo of a superorganism: Ants and their complex worker-caste systems

    Presenting Author: Rajendhran Rajakumar – University of Ottawa

  • 3:20 PM – 3:35 PM MT
    Using RNAseq to examine the biosynthesis of caste specific signals in Bombus impatiens Dufour's gland

    Presenting Author: Nathan Derstine – Pennsylvania State University

    Co-Author: David Galbraith – Pennsylvania State University

    Co-Author: Gabriel Villar – Pennsylvania State University

    Co-Author: Etya Amsalem – Pennsylvania State University

  • 3:35 PM – 3:50 PM MT
    Break
  • 3:50 PM – 4:05 PM MT
    Evolution of queen morphologies in Leptothorax ants

    Presenting Author: Samuel V. Arsenault – Harvard University

  • 4:05 PM – 4:20 PM MT
    Supergene regulation of social polymorphism in fire ants

    Presenting Author: Brendan G. Hunt – University of Georgia

  • 4:20 PM – 4:25 PM MT
    Closing remarks