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Schedule of Presentations

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8-8:45am: Registration + Breakfast                     

8:45-9:15am: Keynote Speaker

      Matthew Leslie, PhD (Swarthmore College); Talk title TBD

9:15-10:25am: Evolution and the Environment

        9:15, Jarome Ali - "Ring around the rosellas: Plumage evolution in a putative ring species"

        9:20, Ozan Kiratli - "Effects of migration on rapid adaptation and the genetic basis of dispersal behavior in natural

                                          populations of D. melanogaster

        9:25, Avery Selberg - "Consequences of hybridization between two native milkweed species (Asclepias) in their natural

                                              hybrid zone"

        9:30, Rachel Keown - "E. arborea: Combined Sequencing strategies reveal high genetic differentiation between

                                              populations"

        9:35, Chelsea Smith - "Evolution of pyrrolizidine alkaloid biosynthesis in Apocynaceae: inference of ancestral function

                                               in the pathway-specific enzyme, homospermidine synthase"

        9:50, Wendy Clement - "Genomic and morphological insights to the evolution of leaf fusion in honeysuckles (Lonicera,

                                                  Caprifoliaceae)"

        9:55, Lauren Frazee - "Urban phenotypic evolution in the American plantain (Plantago rugelii), a native weed"

        10:00, Andrea Fetters - "The pollen virome: viral discovery and diversity"

        10:15, Ourania Nikolaidas - "Urban Buzz: How urbanization influences bee phenology and communities" 

        10:20, Meghan Barrett - "Neuroanatomical differentiation associated with alternative mate location strategies in the

                                                   brains of dimorphic Centris pallida bees"

10:25-10:50am: Coffee Break

10:50am-noon: Symbiosis + Sociality

        10:50, Dovid Koslovsky - "Spatiotemporal Variation in Network Structure Among Resident and Irruption-visitor

                                                   Chickadees"

        11:05, Virginia Caponera - "Variations in brain region allocation across a gradient of spider sociality"

        11:10, Taylor Kessinger - "Social evolution on networks"

        11:15, Justin Walsh - "The genetic basis of collective behavior"

        11:20, Tali Reiner Brodetzki - "The Interplay between Incipient Species and Social Polymorphism 
                                                           in the Desert Ant Cataglyphis"

        11:35, Katherine Fiocca - "Effects of nutritional physiology on reproductive caste in a eusocial tropical paper wasp

                                                    (Mischocyttarus pallidipectus)"

        11:40, Benoit Bechade - "Bacterial symbionts in larval and adult turtle ant guts can degrade recalcitrant polymers from

                                                    their host's diet"

        11:45, Na Wei - "Pollinators mediate floral microbial assembly in response to agrochemical disturbance"

        11:50, Linyao Peng - "Strain variation shapes endosymbiont community structure and, possibly, transmission rates in

                                             the pea aphid" 

        11:55, Melissa Carpenter - "Diversity of an Endosymbiont and its Phage: Hamiltonella defensa and APSE"

Noon-1:45pm: Lunch and Posters

1:45-2:15pm: Keynote Speaker

     Daven Presgraves, PhD (University of Rochester); Talk title TBD

2:15-3:00pm: Population Genetics and Evolutionary Dynamics

        2:15, Andrew Webb - "The Popgen Pipeline Platform: A Software Platform for Facilitating Population Genomic

                                               Analyses"

        2:30, Tristan Stark - "Characterizing amino acid substitution with complete linkage of sites on a lineage"

        2:35, Chai Molina - "Towards evolutionary game theory in realistic populations"

        2:40, Westin Kosater - "A Statistical Analysis of Clusters of Amino Acid Substitutions to Compare Compensatory

                                                Processes with Directional Selection" 

        2:45, Qiqing Tao - "A new method for inferring timetrees from temporally sampled molecular sequences"

3:00-3:30pm: Novogene Coffee Break 

3:30-4:25pm: Functional Genomics and Molecular Evolution

        3:30, Saurin Parikh - "LI Detector: An accurate and sensitive tool to analyze colony-based high-throughput screens"

        3:35, Ryan Vignogna - "Experimental evolution of a yeast model of congenital disorders of glycosylation"

        3:40, Dimitra Aggeli - "Fitness effects of variants that emerged during S. cerevisiae adaptation"

        3:55, Lu Yang - "Evolution of toxin resistance in frogs: neo-functionalization of duplicated genes in the presence of

                                    gene conversion" 

        4:00, Dan Ju - "The evolution of skin pigmentation associated variation in Europe"

        4:05, Severin Uebbing - "Discovering human-specific substitutions that alter neurodevelopmental enhancer activity" 

        4:20, Jose Barba-Montoya - "The discrepancy of molecular and morphological clocks is largely imperceptible in

                                    divergence time estimation"

4:30-5:00pm: Keynote Speaker

     Sarah Tishkoff, PhD (University of Pennsylvania); Talk title TBD

Poster Presentations

1. Jonathan Falciani - Pruning rogue taxa before dating analysis.

2. Labeeqa Khizir - Solving the plastid puzzle: de novo assembly of Viburnum using next generation

                                 sequencing.

3. Jennifer Le - Lack of fat and lower biodiversity yields increased aggression in urban ants. 

4. Sarah Dolce - A strange new world: hybridization in the Anthropocene.

5. Aaron Lee - Exploring the evolutionary history of the cup-shaped cotyledon (CUC) gene family in the

                        honeysuckles (Lonicera, Caprifoliaceae) and relatives.

6. Mathew Pekora - Behavioral consistency of honey bee nurses.

7. Shakibur Rahman - A novel method to estimate dN/dS in the presence selection on transcriptional

                                    efficiency. 

8. Matthew Fertakos - The power of herbarium specimens: Using digitized collections to study species

                                     distribution modeling and phenology.

9. Amy Antonio - Diversity of Caulobacter crescentus bacteriophages: Morphological and biological properties

                             of phages isolated from lakes in Cumberland County, New Jersey.

10. Gia Picknally - The role of miR156 in altered flowering time of elevated carbon dioxide grown plants.

11. Jasmine Hendy - Brain wiring and supragranular-enriched genes linked to protracted human frontal cortex

                                  development.

12. Amanda Wilson - Whole genome duplication events drive diversification of the myostatin pathway in

                                    Salmonidae. 

13. Veronica Iriat - Herbicide dicamba has species-specific effects on wildflowers and alters the timing and

                              abundance of pollinator resources.

14. Daniel Marad - Targeted identification of overdominant diploid mutations in budding yeast.

15. Alyssa Pivirotto - Natural selection and demographic history influence the distributions of ages of rare

                                   variants.

16. Lu Yang - Adaptive substitutions underlying cardiac glycoside insensitivity in insects exhibit epistasis in

                      vivo.

17. Andrew Conboy - Exploration of structural variation in evolved S. cerevisiae using long and short read

                                    sequencing.

18. Caryn Babaian - How to build a super predator.

19. Omer Acar - Exploring de novo gene emergence through genetic interaction networks.

20. Alexander Lucaci - Estimating the consequences of multiple simultaneous mutations on inferences of

                                      evolutionary selection.

21. Michael Chambers - Exploring the combinatorial fitness landscape of co-evolving human and viral proteins.

22. Kwangwon Lee - Habitat specific clock variation and its consequence on reproductive fitness.

23. Rebecca Hayes - Petal bacterial UV tolerance varies between host flowers that display different UV

                                   patterns.

24. Sayaka Miura - Predicting clone phylogenies from tumor sequencing data.

25. Antonia Chroni - Can we infer tumor migration routes by using biogeographic methods?

26. Marco Caraballo - Considerations and challenges building a shallow-level phylogeny in plants using 

                                      transcriptome-based sequences.

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