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This page is dedicated to the display of the Student Forum 2024 poster presentations.

Please take some time to view these posters and contact presenters with any questions you might have about their research.

Note: If you were chosen to have your poster displayed for the Student Forum 2024 but do not see it here, please let us know at info@royensoc.co.uk and include your poster PDF file in the email.


Congratulations to this year’s winners of best talk and poster, as voted by the delegates of the Student Forum 2024.

Awards given for Best talk: Robert Calvert and Runner-up talk: Gaia Mortier
Awards given for Best Poster: Karmannye Chaudhary and Runner-up poster: Kumari Riya Pati

Best Talk

Robert Calvert, Newcastle University
Novel Biopesticides Derived from Biological Control Agents4

Runner-up Talk:

Gaia Mortier, University of Reading
Rebranding Ugly Bugs: Can Media Help Influence Public Perceptions and Balance Conservation Efforts

Best Poster

Karmannye Chaudhary, Queen Mary University London
Exploring India’s Entomological Riches: Unveiling Biodiversity Marvels.

Runner-up Poster:

Kumari Riya Pati, University of Edinburgh
The Plasticity of Ageing for Competitive ability in ‘Burying beetles’ Nicrophorus vespilloides.


Online Posters

Abhishek Mishra – St. Joseph’s University, Bengaluru, India – Documenting diversity of the Butterflies in Holy Ghost Church campus.

Email: abhishekabhi2k20@gmail.com

Alice Casiraghi – IVIA – Valencian Institute for Agricultural Research – A new species, a new invader, or an old neighbour? The curious case of Longicaudinus corydalisicola (Tao, 1963).

Email: casiraghi_alia@gva.es

Charlotte Howard – University of Reading – Powerful flowers: Perennial flower margins reduce orchard fruit damage by rosy apple aphid.

Email: charlotte.howard@pgr.reading.ac.uk

Juan Carlos Cambronero-Heinrichs – University of Padua – Simulated flood-stress and X-ray tomography unveil susceptibility of different tree taxa to ambrosia beetles in a climate change scenario.

Email: juancarlos.cambroneroheinrichs@studenti.unipd.it

Snata Chakraborty – University of Portsmouth – Spatiotemporal strategies in collective hunting of prey types in social spiders Stegodyphus dumicola.

Email: snata.anth93@gmail.com

Seniz Mustafa – University of Brighton – The Insect Diet of the Reintroduced White Stork.

Email: senizmustafa@outlook.com

William Bayfield-Farrell – University of Plymouth – Diversity of Scarab beetles (Coleoptera: Scaranaeidae) across an elevational gradient in tropical montane cloud forest.

Email: willbayfieldfarrell@gmail.com

Agnes Man Sum Chan – University of Sheffield – The impact of herbivory-induced plant stress on flowers and flower-feeding insects.

Email: agnes.4chans@gmail.com

Arsalan Ahmad – Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan – Genome-wide identification of the Cytochrome P450 superfamily in Trichoplusia ni (cabbage looper) and in-silico expression of resistance against HDAC inhibitors.

Email: arsalanahmad6446@gmail.com

Jasvinder Kumar – Department of Zoology, Panjab University, Chandigarh – Exploration of the significance of Histeridae beetles on carcasses in the field of forensic entomology.

Email: jas_k10@yahoo.com

Meredith Lehman – Eastern Mennonite University – Assessing persistence of directional bias in the movement of Queensland Fruit Flies, Bactrocera tryoni, using harmonic radar tracking.

Email: meredith.lehman@emu.edu

Snata Chakraborty – University of Portsmouth – Spatiotemporal strategies in collective hunting of prey types in social spiders Stegodyphus dumicola.

Email: snata.anth93@gmail.com

Rudra Gouda M.N. – Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI) – Unravelling the Genomic Landscape reveals the presence of six novel Odorant-Binding Proteins in Whitefly Bemisia tabaci Asia II-1.

Email: rudragoudamn@gmail.com

Zsófia Varga-Szilay – Doctoral School of Biology, Institute of Biology, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary – Gardening for pollinators? Unveiling gardener owners’ awareness and pollinator-friendly practices.

Email: zsofia@vargaszilay.hu


In-Person Posters

Andra Opris – Edinburgh Napier University – Pollination ecosystem service support by sustainable urban drainage systems (SUDS).

Email: andrada_cleo@yahoo.com

Bjoern Matthies – University of Liverpool – Assessing the resilience of ants in African savannas to changes in mammalian herbivory.

Email: b.matthies@liverpool.ac.uk

Gauri Gharpure – National Centre for Biological Sciences – How insects survive in mountains? A behavioural and physiological perspective.

Email: gauri.gharpure94@gmail.com

Izzy Hall – Newcastle University – The Effects of Microbial Biopesticides on Honey Bees: Implications on Colony Health.

Email: a.hall21@newcastle.ac.uk

Julius Olumeh – Newcastle University – Defense trade-offs in selection of Solanum lycopersicum cultivars in IPM against Tuta absoluta Meyrick.

Email: Olumehjulius@gmail.com

Julie Smith – University of Newcastle – Comparison of phytophagous insects and herbivory in young and established deciduous woodland in Northwest England.

Email: j.smith65@newcastle.ac.uk

Jonny Timperley – University of Liverpool – Developing acoustic monitoring of invertebrates: can current challenges be overcome?

Email: jht45@liverpool.ac.uk

Karmannye Chaudhary – Queen Mary University London – Exploring India’s Entomological Riches: Unveiling Biodiversity Marvels.

Email: karmannyechaudhary@gmail.com

Madeleine Fabusova – University of Exeter – Blinded by lights- Behavioural responses of nocturnal moths to pulsed Artificial Light at Night (pALAN).

Email: mcf204@exeter.ac.uk

Olive Ridley – University Centre Askham Bryan – The Defoliation Rate of Agelastica alni Against Topographic Variables: Altitude and Soil Moisture.

Email: oli.ridley1@gmail.com

Sara Alasady – Newcastle University/ Faculty of Science, Agriculture and Engineering – What is the Role of the Ladybird in the Agro-Ecosystem?

Email: s.m.a.al-asady2@ncl.ac.uk

Susannah Gill – John Innes Centre, Norwich – Exploring white mustard (Sinapis alba) diversity for novel resistance against the Cabbage Stem Flea Beetle (Psylliodes chrysocephala).

Email: susannah.gill@jic.ac.uk

Beatrice Dale – Northumbria University – Towers of flowers

Email: beatrice.dale@northumbria.ac.uk

Carolina Gomez – Durham University – Do bumblebees have. preferred floral smells?

Email:

Elliott Cornelius – Rothamsted Reserach – A Transition to LED Lighting Presents an Opportunity to Mitigate Disturbance Across a Range of Moth Behaviours.

Email: Elliott.J.Cornelius@gmail.com

George Parsons – Newcastle University – Exploring the role of nutrient transport in insect models of disease vector biology.

Email: G.Parsons4@newcastle.ac.uk

Johanna Carolina Molina-Tabares – School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK and Department of Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK – Feeding preference of Rift Valley fever mosquitoes at a wildlife-livestock interface in South Africa.

Email: johannamolina0@gmail.com

Jorn Oppersma – Department of Biosciences, Durham University – Investigating brain anatomy across several bumblebee species, native to North-East England.

Email: oppersmajorn@gmail.com

Kumari Riya Pati – University of Edinburgh – The Plasticity of Ageing for Competitive ability in ‘Burying beetles’ Nicrophorus vespilloides.

Email: s2418423@ed.ac.uk

Marta Potrzebska – University of Silesia in Katowice – The influence of high concentration of sucrose on development and physiology in house cricket, Acheta domesticus. House cricket as a model in diabetes research.

Email: mpotrzebska@us.edu.pl

Matthew Sparks – Swansea University – How do flies view urban environments?

Email: matthewsparks2@outlook.com

Rosy Christopher – Cardiff University in collaboration with Newcastle University – Is timing everything? The implications of harvest for biocontrol spillover and the trophic interactions of generalist predators.

Email: rschristopher@outlook.com

Samuel Baillie – University of Warwick – The Application of Companion Planting for the Protection of Garden Plants.

Email: sam.baillie@warwick.ac.uk

Sesilia Niehaus – University of Edinburgh – Fossil insects, biogeography, and early agriculture in Neolithic Europe.

Email: sesilia.niehaus@gmail.com


A huge thank you to all who submitted abstracts.

We hope you enjoy sharing your work at the Student Forum 2024!

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