Miss Ashritha Dorai1, Dr Joshua Thia1, Professor Ary Hoffmann1, Dr Paul Umina1, Dr Evatt Chirgwin1, Dr Qiong Yang1 1University Of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia Biography: Ashritha Dorai is a PhD student at the pest and environmental adaptation research group at the...

Ms Allison Menzies1 1La Trobe University, Bundoora, Australia Biography: Allison Menzies is a Masters candidate in the Plant Reproduction and Conservation Genetics lab at La Trobe University supervised by Dr Hoebee. She is passionate about invertebrates and her MSc research...

Ms Olivia Portmann1, Dr Erinn Fagan-Jeffries1,2 1School of Biological Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia, 2South Australian Museum, Adelaide, Australia Biography: Olivia is an honours student and member of the Invertebrate Systematics and Biodiversity lab at the University of...

Mr Andrew Bird1 1La Trobe University, Bundoora, Australia Biography: Andrew Bird is a Masters candidate at La Trobe University, in the department of Environment and Genetics. After completing a BsC in Wildlife Conservation Biology at the University of Adelaide, Andrew...

Mr James Tweed1, Mr Zac Billingham2,3, Dr Francesco Martoni4, Professor Salit Kark1 1School of the Environment, Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Science, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, 2Department of Ecology, Environment & Evolution, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Australia, 3Water...

Dr Erinn Fagan-Jeffries1, Mollie-Rosae Slater-Baker1, Olivia Portmann1, Katherine Oestmann1, Tiahni Bament1, Dr Jose Fernandez-Triana2 1The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia, 2Canadian National Collection of Insects, Ottawa, Canada Biography: Erinn is a parasitoid wasp taxonomist based at the University of Adelaide....

Mr Maxim Adams1, Dr Simon Hellemans2, A/Prof Aaron Jex3, A/Prof Thomas Bourguignon2, Dr Emily Remnant1, Prof Kenji Matsuura4 1University Of Sydney, Camperdown, Australia, 2Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Onna, Japan, 3University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, 4University of Kyoto, Kyoto,...

Mr Zhuzhi Zhang1, Mr Nathan Lo1 1the University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia Biography: I'm a PhD candidate in biology at the University of Sydney. Current research interests are evolutionary ecology and phylogeny, focusing on the phylogeny and parallel evolution of...

Miss Eloïse Ansermin1 1University Of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia Biography: Eloise Ansermin is a PhD candidate in the Pest and Environmental adaptations research group at the University of Melbourne. She completed her Masters at the Evolutionary Entomology group at the University...

Dr Yulingzi Zhou1, Dr Andreas Zwick1, Dr Adam Slipinski1 1Australian National Insect Collection, CSIRO, GPO Box 1700, Canberra, Australia Biography: I have been working in the Australian National Insect Collection as the beetle senior curator since 2020. Abstract: We sampled...