Talks
Here are talks I have given about my research/for science communication that were recorded! To view any omitted slides in these talks or the recording of my public defense (August 2025 at the AMNH Linder Theater), please reach out via my contact info at the bottom of the page.
2025
"Alien" vs. Real Life Parasites
June 2025
MoMI Event - Creature Feature: The Science of Monster Movies & Community Filmmaking
(NY, USA)
2024
Wolbachia and Its Insect Manipulations
May 2024
Meeting of the North American Butterfly Association, NJ Butterfly Club Chapter
(NJ, USA)
2023
Untangling the evolution of the twisted-wing parasites (Strepsiptera)
October 2023
Entomological Society of America Annual Meeting
(Washington D.C., USA)
Sequencing Strepsiptera: Resolving the evolution of the twisted-wing parasites
April 2023
University of Central Arkansas Biology Department, Research Seminar Talk
(AR, USA)
Parasites & Papillons: An overview of butterfly parasitism and parasitoidism
January 2023
Meeting of the North American Butterfly Association, NJ Butterfly Club Chapter
(NJ, USA)
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)
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)
