Entomology 2026 Symposia & Workshops

Broadcasting the Buzz: Show and Tell for Innovative Engagement in Entomology
Organizers: Jonathan Larson, Emily Struckhoff, and Hannah Tiffin

Building Inclusive Environments in Global Entomology: Participation, Publishing, and Belonging
Organizers: Jessica Awad, Harit Bal, Elizabeth Dykstra, Jeremy Irvine, Morgan Pinkerton, Rashmi Singla, Emily Struckhoff, Frankie Stubbins, and Kelsey Tobin

From Outbreaks to Impact: Translating Entomology into Policy, Practice, and Public Value
Organizers: Lina Bernaola, Alexander Butcher, Christine Elliott, Jennifer Henke, and Tamra Reall

Adoptable CUREs and Outreach Models in Entomology: What’s Working and How to Implement It
Organizer: Jorge Paredes-Montero

ARThropoda: Creativity as a Tool for Entomology Outreach
Organizers: Tierney Brosius, Izaak Gilchrist, and Barrett Klein

Building Sustainable Extension: Funding Strategies and Partnership Networks for Emerging Challenges
Organizers: Nicole Bell, Terri Billeisen, Isaac Esquivel, Ashleigh Faris, Joanie King, Sriyanka Lahiri, Lisa Mason, Patricia Prade, Md Tafsir Nur Nabie Rashed, Melissa Schreiner, Tawny Simisky, and James Villegas

Formal and Informal Teaching Business Meeting
Organizer: Wyatt Hoback

Hello from the Other Side: Teaching Vector-Borne Disease Across Educational and Disciplinary Divides
Organizers: Kimberly Bjorgo, Erika Machtinger, and Risa Pesapane

Measuring and Communicating Extension Impact: What Works, What Doesn’t, and How to Show It
Organizers: Nicole Bell, Terri Billeisen, Isaac Esquivel, Ashleigh Faris, Joanie King, Sriyanka Lahiri, Lisa Mason, Patricia Prade, Md Tafsir Nur Nabie Rashed, Melissa Schreiner, Tawny Simisky, and James Villegas

A Symposium to Honor Dr. Lane Foil - Pioneer, Mentor, Collaborator
Organizers: Kevin Macaluso, Michael Stout, Daniel Swale

Beyond Counts: Novel Methods to Estimate Ectoparasite Burdens and Host Impacts
Organizers: Troy Koser, Risa Pesapane, Karen Poh, and Danielle Tufts

Beyond PCR: Agnostic Sequencing for Vector-Borne Disease Surveillance
Organizers: Michael Curtis, Sarah Gunter, Alex Kneubehl, Job Lopez, and Shannon Ronca

Chemical Ecology of Triatomines: From Molecules to Behavior
Organizers: Walter Leal and Jason Pitts

Connecting Basic and Applied Research to Deliver Practical Solutions for Stored Product Protection
Organizers: William Morrison, Scott O'Neal, and Kun Yan Zhu

Death and Dinner: Ecology of Parasites, Necrophages, and Forensically Significant Insects
Organizers: Ezra Bailey and Sienna McPeek

Environmental Forensic Entomology and Parasitology in One Health Research
Organizers: Charity Owings and Makhali Voss

From Vectors to Voices: Communicating Medical Entomology for Public Health Impact
Organizers: Carla Cristina Edwards, Drew Lysaker, Divya Rajamanickam, Zackary Sieb, and Stephanie Zapata

Legacy and Innovation: Collaborative Pathways in DoW Pest, Vector, and Invasive Species Research
Organizers: Jodi Fiorenzano and Gabriela Zollner

MUVE Business Meeting with Highlights of Medical, Urban, and Veterinary Entomology
Organizer: Alex Ko

Predictable or Idiosyncratic Responses of Insects to Urban Warming
Organizers: Sarah Diamond, Kevin McCluney, Clint Penick, and Elsa Youngsteadt

Special Collection Showcase: Culicoides Biting Midges as Vectors of Veterinary and Medical Importance
Organizers: Emily McDermott and Bethany McGregor

The Other Flies: Dipteran Research Beyond the Mosquito
Organizers: Afsoon Sabet, Syd Wilson, and Benjamin Zeiger

Building Networks in Insect Toxicology: Honoring Blair Siegfried’s Scientific and Mentoring Impact
Organizers: Carolina Camargo, Chitvan Khajuria, Silvana Paula-Moraes, and Ana Velez

Connecting Generations of Diapause Research: A Tribute to David Denlinger
Organizers: Cleverson de Sousa Lima, Megan Meuti, and Nicholas Teets

Connecting Science and Practice to Enhance Responses to Invasive Hornets
Organizers: Chris Looney, Christopher Rosario, and Jacqueline Serrano

Diving In: Expanding the Study of Host-Gut Microbiomes in Aquatic Insects and Other Invertebrates
Organizers: Paul Ayayee, Michael Benbow, Sara Jackrel, and Brittany Perrotta

Expanding and Connecting Omics Methods in Pest Management
Organizers: Nabil Killiny, Corey Reese, and Lukasz Stelinski

From Lab Effects to Real World Risk: Nontarget Insect Risk Assessment of Insect Control Technologies
Organizers: Chitvan Khajuria, Niranjana Krishnan, and Joerg Romeis

From Sequencing to New Mechanisms: Multi-Omics in Hemipteran Biology
Organizers: Esha Kaler and Flinn O'Hara

Let’s Tox About It: Novel Applications of Toxicology Across Sub-Disciplines
Organizers: Michael Adu-Brew, Luke Humke, Sabrina Purtee, and Jillian Stewart

Mechanistic Insights into Honey Bee Stress Physiology and Health Interventions
Organizers: Troy Anderson, Daniel Swale, and Bita Valizadeh Gever

PBT Business Meeting
Organizers: Priyadarshini Chakrabarti Basu, Edmund Norris, Kristopher Silver, and Ana Velez

Understanding Plant-Insect Interactions Through Plant Genetic Engineering
Organizers: Mason Clark and Loren Rivera Vega

A Slice of P-IE: Our ECP Members are Electric!orld's Insects: A Global Consensus Report
Organizers: Rachel Harman and Katelyn Kesheimer

Advances in Visual, Volatile, Acoustic, and Molecular Modalities for Insect Pest Management
Organizers: Hasan Mirzakhaninafchi, Glen Rains, and Christopher Ranger

Advancing Biological Control: Enhancing Predatory Arthropod Effectiveness
Organizers: Yuna Gaire, Kushal Naharki, Sabina Parajuli, and Binita Sigdel

But Wait There's More: Stories from Collaborative Research in Plant-Insect Interactions
Organizers: Haylie Brown, Mellisa Musekwa, and Elizabeth Rowen

Collaboration is Key: Partnerships Enhance Pollinator Conservation on Public Lands
Organizers: Zoie Andre, Brooke Bellmar, and Michelle Boone

Cultivating Balance: Insect Ecology and Pest Management in Organic Agroecosystems
Organizers: Oscar Liburd and Xavier Martini

Emerging Science, Tools, and Tactics in Turfgrass Entomology: From Theory to Practice
Organizers: Audrey Simard and Shaohui Wu

Expand Your Net, Protect Your Crop: A Cross-Regional Network for Specialty Crop IPM
Organizers: Paulo Cremonez and Jermaine Perier

From Signals to Solutions: Chemical Ecology in Practice
Organizers: Elizabeth Davidson-Lowe and Loren Rivera-Vega

Fungal Friends and Foes: Impacts of Fungal Symbioses on Insect Health and Ecology
Organizers: Amber Crowley-Gall and Danielle Rutkowski

IPM Across the Map: Regional Spotlights on Innovation in ESA Branches
Organizers: Pragya Gupta, Joshua Molligan, Taynara Possebom, Kashish Verma, and Camille Wagstaff

Larry Larson Symposium: Roadmap for Multi-institutional Response for New Insect Invasions
Organizers: Boris Castro, Luis Gomez, and Amanda Jacobson

Leafhoppers on the Rise: Understanding Their Dispersal, Biology, Feeding Behavior and Management
Organizers: Gagandeep Brar, Sajjan Grover, and Kimberly Morrell

Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Management of Controlled Environment Agricultural Systems
Organizers: Arash Kheirodin, Subin Neupane, and Pedro Toledo

Multi-trophic Interactions for Improved IPM- from Microbiome to Agroecosystems
Organizers: Saumik Basu, Abdul Jalloh, Sourav Pal, Shirin Parizad, and Vishal Patil

Partners in the Forest: Biological and Social Aspects of Maintaining Healthy Forest Ecosystems
Organizers: Emily Althoff, Todd Johnson, and Kayla Perry

Plant-Insect Ecosystems Section Networking Session and Awards Celebration
Organizers: Lauren Diepenbrock and Katelyn Kesheimer

Pollinator Movement Ecology: Connecting Questions, Technologies, and Landscapes
Organizers: John Mola and Elsa Youngsteadt

Pollinators in the City: Advances, Challenges, and Opportunities in Urban Ecology
Organizers: Nicole Bailey and Laura Lukens

What Can Researchers and Land Managers Learn from Each Other to Better Manage Pollinator Habitat?
Organizers: Michelle Boone and Julia Leone

Arthropods at the Center: Expanding the All-Taxa Net
Organizers: William Kuhn and Heather Stehle

Beenome100: Comparative Insights into the Genomics and Evolution of Bees
Organizers: Michael Branstetter, Jay Evans, Jeff Lozier, and Rena Schweizer

Collection Connections: Expanding Research Questions with a Network of Curated Specimens
Organizer: Oliver Keller and Jack Whisenant

Evolutionary Perspectives on Myiasis-Causing Blow Flies
Organizers: Aram Mikaelyan and Maxwell Scott

Insect Genomics: Applications in Agriculture and Evolutionary Biology
Organizers: Julian Dupuis, Beryl Jones, and Sheina Sim

Microbes in Insect-xenobiotic Interactions: Agents Provocateurs in the Coevolutionary Arms Race
Organizers: May Berenbaum and Alison Ravenscraft

Scaling Insect–Microbe Interactions: From Cellular Processes to Ecosystems
Organizers: Gordon Bennett and Younghwan Kwak

SysEB Business Meeting
Organizers: JoVonn Hill and Aram Mikaelyan

The State of the World's Insects: A Global Consensus Report
Organizers: Christie Bahlai, Chris Elphick, Eliza Grames, Chris Halsch, David Wagner, and Jessica Ware

Advancing Bee Taxonomy 2: Resources, Training and Innovation
Organizers: Michael Branstetter and Victor Gonzalez

Aligning People and Insect Science Through Community-Engaged Research
Organizers: Ellen Danford, Michelle Pham, and Erika Wright

Basic Bee: From Basics to Breakthroughs in Honey Bee Research
Organizer: Brock Harpur

Bt Resistance in European Corn Borer: Opportunities for Collaborative IPM Research and Implementation
Organizers: Brad Coates, Kelsey Fisher, and Jocelyn Smith

Building Robust Insect Bioassays: Addressing Challenges in Reproducibility, Validation and Application
Organizers: Carlos Esquivel, Sahil Pawar, Heena Puri, and Rashmi Singla

Buzz, Crawl, Deliver: Extracellular Vesicles Across the Arthropod World
Organizers: Kristof De Schutter, Marija Milosevic, Dana Mitzel, Kristopher Silver, Ryan Smith, Hameeda Sultana, Ana Velez, and Xiufeng Zhang

Case Studies in Building Successful Transdisciplinary Teams to Solve Real World Problems
Organizers: Tracy Leskey and Julie Urban

Casting the Wider Net: Innovative Technologies in Modern Entomology
Organizers: Gourav Beniwal, Anna Eichert, Nikhitha Gangavarapu, Samikshya Pandey, Rupinder Singh, and Emily Ta

Connecting Helicoverpa zea Science to Expand Our Nets
Organizers: Tim Bryant and Kelly Hamby

Four Suborders, One Goal: Advancing Systematics of Hemiptera
Organizers: Solomon Hendrix, Christopher Owen, and Christiane Weirauch

From Ecology to Intervention: Advancing Management Strategies for Tropical Pests
Organizers: Pascal Aigbedion-Atalor, Dong Cha, and Mark Wright

From Molecules to Models: Insights into Arthropod Vector–Mediated Plant Pathogen Transmission
Organizers: Mritunjoy Barman and Shaonpius Mondal

Frontiers in IPM: Emerging Research and Innovations in Integrated Pest Management of Row Crops
Organizers: Manish Gautam, Rupesh Kariyat, and Soumya Unnikrishnan

Fungal Farmers: Dynamics of Ambrosia Beetles as Pests Within Diverse Cropping Systems
Organizers: Julie Baniszewski and Christopher Ranger

Insect Resistance Is a Wicked Problem, so What Do We Do? Learn About IRAC and Their Partners
Organizers: Graham Head, Scott Ludwig, Patricia Prasifka, Caydee Savinelli, Charles Silcox, and Anh Tran

Insects Across Scales: Linking Biodiversity, Remote Sensing, and Land Management
Organizers: Sara Emery and Eric Stiner

Insects and IPM in the City: Research and Outreach in Urban Green Spaces
Organizers: Laura Ingwell, David Lowenstein, and Maggie Rivera

Just Look Up: Vertical Stratification of Arthropod Biodiversity in Temperate Forests
Organizers: Michael Cunningham-Minnick and Codey Mathis

Outreach and Science Communication with Mites and Ticks
Organizers: Allan Busuulwa, Emilie Demard, and Jeremie Naredo

Pollinators in Crisis: Ecological and Physiological Impacts of Severe Weather Events
Organizers: Hannah Levenson and Bradley Metz

Queering the Field: Building Inclusive Networks in Entomology
Organizers: Vilas Brown, Lauren Esposito, Katherine Montana, Archie-Em Walker, and Jessica Ware

Realizing Potential: The Journey from Entomological Innovation to Industry Adoption
Organizers: Kimberly Morrell, Evelien Van Ekert, and Jennifer Williams

Rolling Forward: Dung Beetles and Their Role in Sustainable Systems
Organizers: Dana Price and Rodrigo Soares

Spatial Modeling Across Entomology: Interdisciplinary Best Practices for Population Modeling
Organizers: Emily Bick and Fletcher Robbins

Tejiendo Futuros: Expanding Our Scientific Net Together
Organizers: Leslia Alejandra Aviles Lopez, Ana Cabrera, Arani Cuevas-Sanchez, Carlos Esquivel Palma, Ricky Lara, Rosa Lozano, and Steven Reyna

What’s the Buzz? An Entomological History of May Berenbaum’s 34 Years of Service as Department Head
Organizers: Brian Allan and Andrew Suarez

What's New in Industry
Organizer: Julian Golec

Coming out of the Camouflage: How to Navigate Your First Meeting
Organizers: Gourv Beniwal, Anna Eichert, Adriane Fifield, Pragya Gupta, Kushal Naharki, Emily Ta

Creating a Buzz Through Innovative Engagement and Teaching Techniques
Organizer: Doug Golick

Ectoparasites in Focus: Identification, Collection, and Vector Surveillance Training
Organizers: Kimberly Bjorgo, Drew Lysaker, Erika Machtinger, Risa Pesapane, Michael Skvarla, Emily Struckhoff, Rebecca Trout Fryxell, and Angela Tucker

Insights Leadership Coaching
Organizer: Michelle Smith

Publishing with the Entomological Society of America
Organizers: Melody Keena, Lisa Neven, Jeffrey Scott, and David Taylor

Visual Design for Outreach: Communicating Entomology Through Artistic Display of Specimens
Organizers: Lauren Diepenbrock and Angel Haller