Undergrad MUVE and PBT: Miscellaneous

Moderator(s)

• 

  Edward Vargo

  Professor and Endowed Chair
  Department of Entomology
  Texas A&M University
  College Station, Texas
• ZR

  Zeljko Radulovic

  Assistant Professor
  Stephen F. Austin State University
  Nacogdoches, Texas

Presentations:

• 8:00 AM – 8:12 AM MT

  Acute exposure to sublethal doses of neonicotinoid insecticides increases heat tolerance in honey bees
  

  Presenting Author: Rachel E. Manweiler – University of Kansas

  Co-Author: Victor H. Gonzalez – University of Kansas

  Co-Author: John Hranitz – University of Pennsylvania

  Co-Author: Mercedes McGonigle – University of Kansas

  Co-Author: Deborah Smith – University of Kansas

  Co-Author: John Barthell – University of Central Oklahoma
• 8:12 AM – 8:24 AM MT

  Caste-based gene expression analysis in the red harvester ant, Pogonomyrmex barbatus
  

  Presenting Author: Eliyashaib James – Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

  Co-Author: Chloe Hawkings – Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
• 8:36 AM – 8:48 AM MT

  Exploring the evolution of the Fushi Tarazu-Transcription Factor 1 (Ftz-F1) transcription factor across eusocial insects
  

  Presenting Author: Liam Michael Ryan – Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

  Co-Author: Saba Hazaveh – Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

  Co-Author: Chloe Hawkings – Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
• 8:48 AM – 9:00 AM MT

  Expression of brown and southern black widow spider latrotoxins is tissue- and life stage-specific for a-latroinsectotoxins and d-latroinsectotoxins and is ubiquitous for a-latrotoxins
  

  Presenting Author: Sebastian L. Torres – Stephen F. Austin State University

  Co-Author: Lindsay Porter – Stephen F. Austin State University

  Co-Author: Abraham Landeros – Stephen F. Austin State University

  Co-Author: Kaleth Salazar – Stephen F. Austin State University

  Co-Author: Eleanor Penhallegon – Stephen F. Austin State University
• 9:00 AM – 9:12 AM MT

  Expression of α-latroinsectotoxin in Latrodectus geometricus is not dependent on feeding
  

  Presenting Author: Eleanor Penhallegon – Stephen F. Austin State University

  Co-Author: Lindsay Porter – Stephen F. Austin State University
• 9:12 AM – 9:24 AM MT

  Shotgun metagenomic case study of a Tenebrio molitor colony collapse
  

  Presenting Author: Madison Leierer – Kansas State University

  Co-Author: Morgan L. Olmstead – USDA-ARS

  Co-Author: Brenda Oppert – USDA-ARS
• 9:24 AM – 9:36 AM MT

  Silencing of a putatively immune-related lipocalin-like gene in Amblyomma americanum
  

  Presenting Author: Kathy J. Li – Stephen F. Austin State University

  Co-Author: Elizabeth Streckfuss – Stephen F. Austin State University

  Co-Author: Lindsay Porter – Stephen F. Austin State University
• 9:36 AM – 9:48 AM MT

  Transcriptome analysis to identify caste-specific differential expression in the termite, Zootermopsis nevadensis
  

  Presenting Author: Alexandra Mazza – Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

  Co-Author: Chloe Hawkings – Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey