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