2026 SSB Breakout Meeting

Talk Schedule

Saturday, Jan. 10 (Session 1)

Time Speaker Talk Title
9:15 – 9:20 Kelly Zamudio The role of natural history collections in studies of emergent infectious diseases
9:20 – 9:25 Harry W. Greene Museum specimens as sources of natural history data
9:25 – 9:30 Chris Law Undergraduate research using natural history collections
9:30 – 9:35 George Tiley Mechanisms of polyploidization and niche diversification of a dominant grass species revealed from collections-based research
9:35 - 9:40 Alexander Salis Realizing the potential of archival museum collections as a genetic resource
9:40 - 9:45 Yvonne Love Cariño From collections to discoveries: Exploring script lichen diversity in the Southern Philippines
9:45 - 9:50 Timothy J. Colston The UPRM Genomic Resources Collection and Project PRIMIER
9:50 - 9:55 Blake Fauskee Natural history collections as a window into the complex evolutionary history of a Mexican fern genus
9:55 - 10:00 Daniele L.F. Wiley A hop through time: Harnessing holistic museum specimens to uncover diverse drivers of genetic and immunogenetic variation in frogs
10:00 - 10:05 Bryan Carstens Updates to the tetrapod collection at The Ohio State University's Museum of Biological Diversity
10:05 - 10:10 Jesse Wallace We have samples at home: Comparison of methods for genomic DNA capture in museum wet specimens
10:10 - 10:15 Sabrina S. Taylor Panmixia in an ephemeral habitat specialist is explained by vagility not range changes
10:15 - 10:20 Luca Pozzi From cabinets to genomes: Leveraging museum collections for phylogenomics in lorisiform primates
10:20 - 10:25 Vicens Vila-Coury A first look at the genomics of a stable, narrow, and environmentally-correlated cline between Bananaquit (Coereba flaveola) color morphs in Grenada
10:25 - 10:30 Miguel Perez Phylogenomics of mexican Lobelia in the Mexican Transition Zone

Saturday, Jan. 10 (Session 2)

Time Speaker Talk Title
2:00 – 2:05 Elizabeth L. Jockusch Salamander diversification in the desert
2:05 – 2:10 Brian Smith Genomics of mimicry in
Dryobates
woodpeckers
2:10 – 2:15 Kristen Wacker Comparative genomics of ant-following birds
2:15 – 2:20 Madison Adams Divergent oxygen strategies of aquatic vertebrates during regeneration
2:20 - 2:25 Adry J. Gage Phylogenomics and phylogeography of the aquatic beetle
Liocanthydrus
(Coleoptera: Noteridae), a neotropical lotic specialist
2:25 - 2:30 Kaitlin Languirand Fast or accurate? RJMCMC vs. stepping-stone in Bayesian model selection
2:30 - 2:35 Ixchel Gonzalez Ramirez The return of the J-di: distance-dependent jump dispersal in geoSSE models
2:35 - 2:40 Raymond Castillo State-dependent models for genome evolution
2:40 - 2:45 Basanta Khakurel The hidden cost of discretization: Is the default k=4 biasing your tree length?
2:45 - 2:50 David Černý Evaluating the impact of fossil age data on the relative support of alternative topologies: a case study of marine reptiles (Plesiosauria)
2:50 - 2:55 Caleb Patrick Charpentier A PCM approach to deep learning: Assessing and interpreting the behavior of neural networks for automated character construction
2:55 - 3:00 Santiago Claramunt Best strategies for time-scaling phylogenies using fossil calibrations
3:00 - 3:05 Benjamin Redelings Phylogenetic likelihoods with really large numbers of states
3:05 - 3:10 Samantha Price Cross-scale analyses of evolutionary regression slopes
3:10 - 3:15 Bruno do Rosario Petrucci Inferring a complete phylogenetic tree of Canidae under the stratigraphic-range fossilized birth-death process
3:15 - 3:20 Sydney Decker Integrating high resolution morphometrics when delimiting species
3:20 - 3:25 Nicolás Castillo Rodríguez Effects of sympatry on the evolution of
Puya
(Bromeliaceae) on Northern-Andean sky island systems
3:25 - 3:30 Edison Rea-Sancho From forest to phylogeny: Evolutionary insights into Magnoliaceae of the American Tropics

Sunday, Jan. 11 (Session 3)

Time Speaker Talk Title
9:00 – 9:05 Yosef Kiat The importance of ornithological collections for studying the biology, ecology and evolution of moult strategies
9:05 – 9:10 Aylon Steinberg Intraspecific trait variability in passerine post-juvenile moult extent declines under both low and high constraints
9:10 – 9:15 Jennifer Hodge Living on the edge: The evolutionary dynamics of extreme fish body shapes
9:15 - 9:20 Marina Victoria Farah Carbi Morphological constraints on trunk lateral line patterns
9:20 - 9:25 Mason Thurman The influence of ecology and history on teleost eye-body allometry
9:25 - 9:30 John Cullen Hodges Not all allometry: A flight-brain axis in Piciformes
9:30 - 9:35 Jesus Martinez-Gomez Monkeyflower phylogenomics and plant anatomy (aka histology)
9:35 - 9:40 Tais Mattoso de Andrade Ribeiro Systematics and drivers of evolution of a specialized oil-collecting bee genus
9:40 - 9:45 Diego Blanco Integrative taxonomy of Stripe-headed Sparrows (
Peucaea ruficauda
) using phylogenomics, large-scale environmental data, and morphometrics
9:45 - 9:50 Amelia Barnard Morphological and genetic differences between sister hummingbird species across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec
9:50 - 9:55 Fabio Mendes A new statistical method for testing paleo-biogeographic hypotheses
9:55 - 10:00 Yuanxing Liao Biogeography and diversification dynamics of geckos (Squamata: Gekkota)
10:00 - 10:05 Juliana Damasceno Interspecific limits, diversification, and biogeographic history in a genus of obligatory ant-following birds
10:05 - 10:10 Chloe Nash Rethinking biogeography with composition in widespread marine fishes
10:10 - 10:15 Brenda Ramirez Amazona ancestry: Unraveling the genetic and ecological impacts of introduction and establishment in Southern California
10:15 - 10:20 Tara Pelletier A phylogenetic screen for genes under selection in bats
10:20 - 10:25 Rommy Vanessa Parra Sotalin Linking genomic signatures of selection to shell morphology in Galápagos giant tortoises
10:25 - 10:30 Isabel Pen Mitochondrial gene order anomalies in members of the sea anemone families Aliciidae, Boloceroididae, and Gonactiniidae

Sunday, Jan. 11 (Session 4)

Time Speaker Talk Title
11:00 – 11:05 Melissa DeBiasse Exploring dimensions of pheromonal and microbiome diversity in salamander speciation
11:05 – 11:10 Laura Frost Hybridization or evolutionary artifact? Testing alternative causes of locus heterozygosity and allele divergence in Pondweeds (Potamogetonaceae)
11:10 - 11:15 Leroy Nuñez Genomics underlie ecological opportunity in a continental radiation of snakes
11:15 - 11:20 Agusto R Luzuriaga-Neira Evolutionary history and genomics of the Rainbow Lorikeet complex
11:20 - 11:25 Hannah Walton Plasticity as fuel for diversification in Sulphur butterflies
11:25 - 11:30 Quinn Andrew McCallum Integrative Taxonomy of Polylepis associated birds
11:30 - 11:35 Anupama Chandrasekhar Diversification dynamics of chachalacas, guans and curassows
11:35 - 11:40 Nathaniel Eberhard Unique genetic diversity in ddmixed U.S. tigers
11:40 - 11:45 Rachel Savage Disentangling species boundaries in Rhinanthus (Orobanchaceae) using phylogenomics, morphology and ecological data
11:45 - 11:50 Daniela Garcia Cobos Evolutionary patterns underlying habitat transitions in snakes
11:50 - 11:55 Tiago R. Simões Rethinking the role of adaptive radiations in deep time
11:55 - 12:00 Gustavo de Melo Martins Myrmecophagy in Birds: Diversity, Distribution, and Adaptation

Sunday, Jan. 11 (Session 5)

Time Speaker Talk Title
4:00 – 4:05 Maribeth Latvis Consortium for Plant Invasion Genomics (CPING): Combining big data and plant collections to understand invasiveness
4:05 – 4:10 Camilla Mancini Parent-offspring conflict and coadaptation in Pottiaceae mosses
4:10 – 4:15 James Bernot Parasitic copepod evolution
4:15 – 4:20 Mark Hibbins Rapid evolution of synteny associated with multiple origins of dioecy and XY sex determination
4:20 – 4:25 Julia Soares Parreiras Laying eggs vs sperm and disposing waste through a single pathway: how multi is the multi-purpose frog cloaca?
4:25 – 4:30 Savanna Brown Investigating the developmental regulation of brochosomes: a leafhopper innovation hidden in plain sight
4:30 – 4:35 Emmanuel Chukwuma Synthesizing phylogenetic, morphological, and ecological data to unravel the evolutionary adaptations in genus
Alectra
(Orobanchaceae)
4:35 – 4:40 João Roberto Fentanes Machado Inferring temporal synchronicity of divergence in codistributed species along Neotropical rivers: roles of life-history traits and environmental factors
4:40 – 4:45 Brian Counterman Plasticity and hybridization in Dogface butterflies
4:45 – 4:50 Luke Campillo Whole genome data reveals yet undescribed genomic differentiation within a single species of Hawaiian Honeycreeper, the Hawai'i 'Amakihi (
Chlorodrepanis virens
)

← Back to main meeting page