Talks

2023

Untangling the evolution of the twisted-wing parasites (Strepsiptera)

October 2023
Entomological Society of America Annual Meeting
(Washington D.C., USA)

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Sequencing Strepsiptera: Resolving the evolution of the twisted-wing parasites

April 2023
University of Central Arkansas Biology Department, Research Seminar Talk
(AR, USA)

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Parasites & Papillons: An overview of butterfly parasitism and parasitoidism

January 2023
Meeting of the North American Butterfly Association, NJ Butterfly Club Chapter
(NJ, USA)

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2022

Searching for Strepsiptera: Museomics in the study of host-parasite relationships

November 2022
Entomological Society of America Joint Annual Meeting with the Entomological Society of Canada and the Entomological Society of British Columbia
(Vancouver, Canada)

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2021

Parental care and the risk of maternally-vectored pathogens: Examining the host-parasite relationship between Ammophila spp. and Paraxenos lugubris

April 2021
Undergraduate Research, Scholarship & Creative Activities Conference
(UC Davis, CA, USA)

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Posters

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Millena RJA, Tolman E, Ware J. 2023. “Sequencing Strepsiptera: NGS and museomics methods in a systematic study of the twisted-wing parasites.” January 2023 Society of Systematic Biologists Standalone Meeting at El Instituto de Biología UNAM; Mexico City, Mexico
Millena RJA, Rosenheim JA. 2021. “Parental care augments maternally-vectored parasites in Ammophila wasps."December 2021 Grantsmanship, Ethics, and Communication at the American Museum of Natural History; New York, NY, USA
Millena RJA, Rosenheim JA. 2020. “Parental care and the risk of maternally-vectored pathogens: Ammophila transmit Strepsipteran parasites to their young.”April 2020 Undergraduate Research, Scholarship & Creative Activities Conference; UC Davis, CA, USA