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41st Annual Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Symposium
Monday, December 5th
8:30 Breakfast
9:05 Opening remarks
9:10 Willy Bemis Tooth development, attachment, and replacement in Atlantic Cutlassfish, Trichiurus lepturus
9:30 Claire Fox Flatfish benthic walking: a new vertebrate gait
9:45 Collin Edwards Evolution of emergence strategies in a changing climate
10:00 Timothy Lambert Stream and grassland conservation in the Upper Midwest: local priorities within a regional context
10:15-10:40 – Break
10:40 Jeremy Searle History and biology coincide: explaining the “Celtic Fringe”
11:00 Nick Fletcher Glacial cycles drive rapid cryptic speciation in the field vole (Microtus agrestis)
11:15 Jonathan Hughes Targeting nuclear loci for increased resolution of Xenarthran phylogeny
11:30 Tram Nguyen Identifying potential domestic goat hybridization events to improve the genetic management of a captive
Nubian ibex population
11:45 Abby Drake Dogs in morpho(space): disparity and modularity of skull shape
12:00-1:00 – Lunch Break
1:00 Jennifer Thaler Maternally induced cannibalism: an adaptive response to predation risk?
1:20 Tim Luttermoser Landscape complexity and push-pull agriculture
1:35 Amelia Weiss Biogeography of aquatic Neotropical caves
1:50 Jennifer Uehling Using population-level distribution information to infer behavioral responses of an aerial insectivore to
short-term, temperature-induced food shortage
2:05 Sahas Barve Single moms, flashy dads and…. fruits!
2:20-2:40 Break
2:40 Christy Goodale Where does added N end up? Multiyear fate of a 15N tracer at Arnot Forest
3:00 Erin Larson Extreme unseasonable flooding in Colorado’s Front Range shifts stream consumer resource use
3:15 Lily Twining Limnology for the ornithologist: aquatic insects provide a performance-enhancing omega-3 fatty acid subsidy
for riparian birds
3:30 Kelsey Jensen Testing the influence of elevated CO2 on soil organic matter composition and stability
3:45 Bob Howarth Unprecedented Recent Global Warming is Driven by Methane Emissions from the United States
41st Annual Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Symposium
Tuesday, December 6th
8:30 Breakfast
9:00 Chip Aquadro Student genetic ancestry testing: an experiment in making science personal
9:20 Karin van der Burg Genetics of variation in phenotypic plasticity in butterfly J. coenia
9:35 Katie Rondem Regulatory evolution in butterfly wing color patterns
9:50 David Chang van Oordt Context-dependent influence of the season in the prevalence of avian malaria infections in
rufous-collared sparrows (Zonotrichia capensis)
10:05 André Dhondt How does coinfection with Plasmodium influence disease caused by Mycoplasma gallisepticum in house
finches?
10:20-10:40 – Break
10:40 Maren Vitousek Stress and parenthood: individual differences in the brief acute glucocorticoid stress response have
long-term phenotypic and fitness effects
11:00 Lina Arcila Hernández Host plant use as predictor of population divergence in the milkweed stem weevil
11:15 Katherine Urban-Mead Early season interactions: Constructing the quantitative network of wild bee pollinators and
their pre-apple bloom arboreal forage resources
11:30 Aubrie James Incorporating mutualists into the competitive coexistence framework: a case study in Clarkia (Kern
County, California)
11:45 Gregor-Fausto Siegmund Population dynamics across a species’ range
12:00-1:00 – Lunch Break (Poster Session)
1:00 Allison Tracy Revisiting the elusive baseline of marine disease: A 45-year record to assess disease in ocean ecosystems
1:15 Olivia Graham Environment and biodiversity: Drivers of disease in eelgrass?
1:30 Cinnamon Mittan Rapid adaptation to cold in the invasive cane toad Rhinella marina
1:45 Stepfanie Aguillon Using pedigrees and genomics to understand the consequences of limited dispersal
2:00 Young Ha Suh Prospecting in Florida scrub-jays
2:15-2:40 – Break
2:40 Patricia Jones A disconnect between preference, performance, and defense in monarch butterflies and their milkweed
host plants
2:55 Joo Hyun Im Recent and recurrent positive selection in Drosophila autophagy and phagocytosis genes
3:10 James Lewis Genome assembly strategies for outbred non-model species
3:00-4:00 Workshop: How to review a paper
4:00 Reception and Announcement of Prize winners