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Schedule of Presentations

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8-9am: Registration                     

9-9:45am: American Society of Naturalists Plenary Speaker

     Jason Weckstein, PhD; "The evolution of birds and their parasites: what can they tell us

      about correlates of diversification?"

9:45-10:30am: Session One

        9:45, Cindy Skema - Diversification of the flora of Madagascar

        10:00, Jarome Ali - Plumage evolution in amazon parrots

        10:15, Erica Lawrence - The functional significance of vegetative phase changes in plants 

        10:20, Audrey Miller - Eye of the beholder: manipulating colorful signals in animal behavior research

        10:25, Monica Carlson -  Ecology and evolution of plumage patterns in Melanerpes woodpeckers

10:30-11:00am: Coffee Break

11:00am-noon: Session Two

       11:00, Linyao Peng - Mechanisms behind symbiont community structure in the pea aphid

       11:15, Benoit Bechade - A tale of two stages: the divergent microbiomes of larval vs. adult turtle ants encode overlapping, yet partially unique, digestive functions

       11:30, Janelle Couret - Evidence of adaptive parasite manipulation by Lyme disease agent, Borrelia burgdorferi, in black-legged ticks (Ixodes scapularis)

       11:35, Michael Warner - The convergent basis of social evolution in ants and bees

       11:40, Justin Walsh - Phenotypic correlation between queen and worker brood care supports the role of maternal care in the evolution of eusociality 

       11:45, Katherine Fiocca - Eating your way to becoming queen: adult nutrition influences social caste in tropical paper wasps (Mischocyttarus spp.)

       11:50, Mark Nessel - Global body size scaling of elemental content in invertebrates and vertebrates

       11:55, Nandita Garud - Evolution of commensal gut bacteria in the human microbiome

Noon-1:30pm: Lunch and Posters

1:30-3:20pm: Session Three

     1:30, Katy Gonder - High resolution SNP genotyping in wild chimpanzees and the case for ecological speciation in Cameroon

        1:45, Allison Kolpas - Optimal mating strategies for preferentially outcrossing simultaneous hermaphrodites in the presence of predators

        2:00, Jaime Iranzo - How genetic parasites persist despite the purge of natural selection

        2:15, Ravi Patel - Thousands of adaptive polymorphisms in the evolutionary history of the human coding genome

        2:30, Kaitlin Fisher - Dominance at a single locus constrains chromosomal evolution

        2:35, Stephanie Lauer - Single-cell copy number variant detection reveals the dynamics and diversity of adaptation

        2:40, Grace Avecilla - The molecular basis of fitness differences in copy number variants

        2:45, Pieter Spealman - Diverse mechanisms of copy number variant formation observed in experimentally evolved populations

        2:50, Fabrizio Spagnolo - Fitness landscapes after antibiotic resistance 

        2:55, Sean Buskirk - Host-virus genome coevolution in laboratory populations of yeast

        3:00, Andrew Ritchie - Investigating lineage- and site-heterogeneous mutation-selection models for detecting directional evolution

        3:05, Dimitra Aggeli - Probing the effect of the evolutionary past on adaptation

        3:10, Jae Young Choi - Natural variation in telomere repeats, a major plant satellite DNA, correlates with flowering time variation

        3:15, Eugene Plavskin - Distinct distributions of mutational effects on fitness revealed by high-throughput phenotyping

3:20-4:00pm: Coffee Break 

4:00-4:45pm: Genetics Society of America Plenary Speaker

      Paul Turner, PhD: "Using phage to select for evolution of reduced virulence in

      pathogenic bacteria"

4:45-5:00pm: Student Awards and Closing

Poster Presentations

1. Ourania Nikolaidis - Do priority effects change the structure of interaction networks between ants and

    honeydew-producing insects after acute storm stress?

2. Shin-Yi Lin - A conserved TRA-1 activator is subject to divergent regulatory controls in Caenorhabditis

    nematodes

3. Svjetlana Vojvodic - Altered gut microbiome influencing honey bee learning 

4. Caryn Babaian - Biology Mandalas, Evolution, and Ecology

5. John Favate - Characterization of transcriptional and translational changes over 50,000 generations of

    bacterial adaptation

6. Satheeja Santhi Velayudhan - Control of Caenorhabditis briggsae germline development by TRA-1

    interacting co-factors

7. Chelsea Smith - Does herbivore co-option of a plant defense drive its loss? Testing the defense de-

    escalation of pyrrolizidine alkaloid evolution in Apocynaceae (the dogbane and milkweed family)

8. Tyrell Harris - Eat, Sleep, Work: Repeating Task Cycles in Honey Bee Nurses

9. Emily Fanwick - Effect of Caste on Army Any Gut Microbiome 

10. Clair Han and Patrick Reilly - Evaluation of errors in variant calling in non-model species

11. Joshua Waters - Fungal Adaptation of Carbon-Utilization Through Transcriptional Rewiring

12. Elizabeth Heppenheimer - High genomic diversity and candidate genes under selection associated with

      range expansion in eastern coyote (Canis latrans) populations 

13. Ryan Vignogna - Identifying positive genetic interactions using experimental evolution

14. Ian Nichols - Impacts of Agroforestry on Mammals

15. Rohini Singh - Increase in colony fitness of pharaoh ants by a bacterial endosymbiont 

16. Lane D'Alessandro - Optimizing Fitness using Resource Allocation

17. Jeremiah Budgeon - Predation Risk Impact on Snail Reproduction

18. Farah Abdul-Rahman - Quantifying fitness of budding yeast in periodically fluctuating environments

19. Sebastian Harris - Rapid Assessment of Amphibian Species Richness Along an Urban-Wildland Gradient

20. Samantha Schofield - The Effects of Habitat Complexity on Arthropod Species Diversity in High-Stress

      Environments

21. Bala S. C. Koritala - Uncoupled Circadian Clock Enhances Reproductive Fitness in North American N.

      discreta

22.Yuying Rong - Understanding the processes driving duplicate gene retention

23. Nikole Andre and Carleigh Engstrom - Using microsatellite genotyping to characterize migration patterns

      in Striped Bass

24. Meghan Barrett - Worker-caste differences in brain investment reflect soldier behavioral specialization in

      Eciton Army Ants

25. Qiqing Tao - Pervasive correlation of molecular evolutionary rates in the tree of life

26. Tiffany Longo, Summer Shaheed, and Sebastian Vera - Variation in reproductive traits among house mice

      adapted to different climates in the Americas

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