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