"Why Did the Beetle not Cross the Road?: Linear Barriers, Habitat Fragmentation, and Carrion Beetles", CERC, Columbia University (5/00).
"Insect Diversity in Relation to Forest Fragmentation", Black Rock Forest Consortium Day, Cornwall, NY (6/99).
"Why Canšt We Be Friends?: Behavioral Evolution and Systematics of Ant-Guest Staphylinid Beetles", Department of Entomology, University of Illinois (1/99), Department of Entomology, Kansas State University (2/99), Department of Biology, San Diego State University (2/99), Department of Zoology, Southern Illinois University (3/99).
"Life history evolution among mosquitoes and ant-guest beetles",
Department of Entomology, USDA Agricultural Research Station, Beltsville,
MD (3/98).
"Systematics and behavioral evolution", Department of Entomology, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco (1/98).
"Relationships among basal Polyphaga based on ribosomal 18S DNA", Entomological Society of America, Nashville, TN (12/97).
"New phylogenetic relationships among the South American Anopheles", Walter Reed Army Research Center, Washington D. C. (6/97).
"The relevance of cladistics", Department of Biology, Barnard College, Columbia University, New York (4/97).
"Behavioral evolution among beetles living with ants", New York Entomological Society, New York (2/97).
"Using systematics to test theories of life history evolution", Department of Entomology, Rutgers University (6/96).
"Mitochondrial, nuclear, and morphological systematic characters: Conflict and resolution", Department of Zoology, University of Vermont (12/95).
"Utility of nuclear 18S rDNA in reconstructing relationships among basal polyphagan beetles (Coleoptera: Polyphaga: Staphyliniformia), Evolution meetings, Boulder (6/97).
"Relationships among members of the Albitarsis complex", American Mosquito Control Association meeting, Salt Lake City, R.C. Wilkerson, J.E. Conn, and J.A. Danoff-Burg, (3/97).
"Molecular congruence within a subgenus of Anopheles mosquitoes", Evolution meetings, St. Louis (6/96).
"Reconciling incongruent phylogenetic data matrices?: An example using
five matrices and twenty anopheline species", American Mosquito Control
Association meeting, Norfolk (3/96).
"Testing for systematic congruence in a subgenus of Neotropical anopheline mosquitoes", Northeast Molecular Evolutionary Biology meeting (11/95) and Entomological Society of America meeting (12/95).
"Role of historical inertia and adaptation during behavioral evolution in a tribe of ant-guest beetles", Evolution meetings, McGill University (6/95).
"Behavioral evolution within a tribe of ant-guest beetles: Evidence from systematics and comparative ecology", University of Vermont (5/95).
"Behavioral integration mechanisms within a tribe of ant-guest beetles: How to outstay your welcome", Evolution meetings, University of Georgia (6/94).
"Ecotourism in Perú: Hope for the future or the beginning of The End?", University of Kansas (9/93).
"Entomology summer field trip 1992: What we did in Portal, Arizona", University of Kansas (8/92).
"Sociobiology and the biological basis of homosexuality", University of Kansas (4/92).
"Evolving under myrmecophily: The resolution of a problem taxon", University of Michigan, 12th Annual Midwest Ecology and Evolution (3/92).
"The Evolution of myrmecophily in a tribe of staphylinid beetles", University of Kansas (11/91).
"Does substrate type influence female sexual receptivity in Podagrion mantis?", Central States Ecology Conclave, Omaha, Nebraska (4/91).
"Evolutionary significance of myrmecomorphic spiders", University of Kansas (2/91).
"Inquilines of Liometopum apiculatum", University of Kansas (11/90).
"Interspecific behaviors of a myrmecophilous histerid beetle, Hetaerius brunneipennis when found with Camponotus pennsylvanicus", Entomological Society of America, San Antonio, Texas (12/90).
"Deer exclusion enhances predatory arthropod biodiversity", Entomology Society of America meeting, Las Vegas (11/98)
"Arthropod biodiversity in succession: Separating the effects of litter depth and composition", Entomology Society of America meeting, Las Vegas (11/98), second author, presenting author is a former student
"Aerial arthropod diversity and forest succession", Entomology Society of America meeting, Las Vegas (11/98), second author, presenting author is a former student
"Roads, habitat fragmentation, and beetle dispersal", Entomology Society of America meeting, Las Vegas (11/98), second author, presenting author is a former student
"Phylogenies derived from six matrices in Anopheles mosquitoes: Coping with problems of congruence", International Congress of Entomology, Florence (8/96).
"Intraspecific variation in the ITS2 of five Anopheles mosquitoes", Graduate Research Day, University of Vermont (4/96).
"Variation among populations of Anopheles darlingi in the ITS2 region", Evolution meetings, McGill University (6/95).
"Quantitatively differing characters in cladistics: A revision of the myrmecophilic beetle tribe Sceptobiini (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae)", Midwest Conference on Population Biology, Normal, Illinois (11/92) and Entomological Society of America, Indianapolis, Indiana (12/93).