Willadsen places in Top 3 at the 2025 ESA Annual Meeting

EEB Graduate Student Peter Willadsen received second place in the SysEB, Evolution and Systematics session of the graduate poster competition at the Entomological Society of America 2025 Annual Meeting in Portland, Oregon. 

Willadsen’s poster was titled, "Untangling the evolutionary history of the water scavenger beetle subfamily Enochrinae (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae)". Willadsen is a PhD Student in Dr. Rob Moyle’s lab, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (EEB), at KU.  

This is the second consecutive year a KU student has placed in the top three at the Annual Meeting.

Each year approximately 3,500 entomologists and other scientists gather to exchange scientific information at the ESA Annual Meeting. The ESA is the largest organization in the world serving the professional and scientific needs of entomologists and individuals in related disciplines.  As such, the conference provides opportunities to recognize exceptional research, communication, and leadership skills in the field of entomology in the form of conferences, submitted papers, and continuing education seminars.

The 2025 meeting took place November 9 through 12 in Portland, Oregon.