| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 ) |