Thursday, August 22, 2019
10:00 am – 4:30 pm
Minnie Belle Heep Center, Room 103
10:00 – 11:00 Keynote panel with professionals in the field of entomology
11:00 – 11:10 Break, get computer ready for student presentations
Student presentations, Session 1
11:10 – 11:21 Zanthé Kotzé – “Mechanisms regulating behavior of arthropods that consume vertebrate carrion: Deciphering succession as related to forensic entomology.”
11:21 – 11:32 Pierre Lau – “Understanding honey bee foraging preferences and nutrient regulation to improve beekeeping pollen substitutes.”
11:32 – 11:43 Brenda Leals – “The interaction between ‘Candidatus Liberibacter solanacearum’ and the gut of the potato psyllid, Bactericera cockerelli (Hemiptera: Triozidae), nymphs.”
11:43 – 11:54 Xiaotian Tang – “Let’s talk about eating, by the way, it’s self-eating.”
11:54 – 12:05 Samantha Sawyer -“Vertebrate scavengers impact on primary colonizers of small carrion in differing habitat and season.”
12:05 – 1:00 Lunch on your own
Student presentations, Session 2
1:00 – 1:11 Mackenzie Tietjen – ” Assessing host-associated differentiation in Dermacentor variabilis (Acari: Ixodidae).”
1:11 – 1:22 Mark Olson – “Sugar feeding patterns for Aedes aegypti and Culex quinquefasciatus mosquitoes of South Texas.”
1:22 – 1:33 Caixing Xiong – “Prediction of the cattle fever tick endogenous kinins, and discovery of new kinin receptor ligands using a dual-injection fluorescence assay.”
1:33 – 1:44 Jose G. Juarez – “An engaged community, the key to surveillance and control of Aedes aegypti in the “Colonias” of the US-Mexico border.”
1:44 – 1:55 Dayvion Adams – “Artificial vs. live-host feeding: A study of fecundity and fertility in Culex quinquefasciatus (Culicidae) mosquitoes.”
1:55 – 2:06 Phillip Shults – “Presence of bluetongue antibodies in east Texas goats and an investigation of the Culicoides (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) vector.”
2:06 – 2:25 Coffee break in the atrium
Student presentations, Session 3
2:25 – 2:36 Jocelyn Holt – “Quantifying Interactions between invasive sugarcane aphids and tawny crazy ants.”
2:36 – 2:47 Kenneth Masloski – “Importation biological control of crapemyrtle bark scale.”
2:47 – 2:58 Tara-Kay Jones – “Comparative assessment of Dalbulus maidis survival and fecundity on Mexican and American corn germplasm.”
2:58 – 3:09 Ashley Tessnow – “Genomic insights into the migration and host strain hybridization patterns of a major agricultural pest, Spodoptera frugiperda.”
3:09 – 3:20 Kyle Gilder – “Landscape Factors Influencing Crapemyrtle Bark Scale Acanthococcus lagerstroemiae Kuwana (Hemiptera: Eriococcidae).”
3:20 – 3:31 Bert Foquet – “Locust phase polyphenism in a phylogenetic framework: from behavior to molecular changes.”
3:31 – 3:42 Crys Wright – “Testing for fecundity compensation in parasitized sugarcane aphids.”
3:42 – 4:10 Coffee and cookies reception in the 1st floor atrium. Judge deliberation
4:10 – 4:30 Awards ceremony. Adjourn