Talks and Posters
Talk Session #1, October 23:
3PM: Opening Remarks
3:15 PM: Louis Bubrig–C. elegans dauer recovery varies with worm-bacteria interactions
3:30 PM: James Ogilvie–The selective pressures maintaining polymorphic mimicry in a mulllerianmimic
3:45 PM: Linnea Bavik–Evolution of Cooperation by Continuous Phenotype Similarity
4:00 PM: Networking in Breakout Rooms
4:30 PM: Rachel MacTavish–Resource ability alters fitness trade-offs: implications for evolution in stressful environments
4:45 PM: UlkuHuma Altindag–Recombination Rate Plasticity and Interchromosomal Effect in Drosophila pseudoobscura
5:00 PM: Amanda Smith–Host-produced antimicrobial peptides and reactive oxygen species cause genomic perturbations in the opportunistic fungal pathogen C. albicans
5:15 PM: Concluding Remarks
Talk Session #3, October 30:
3PM: Opening Remarks
3:15 PM: Nitin Ravikanthachari–Role of migration-selection balance in the persistence of maladaptation in a specialized plant-herbivore interaction
3:30 PM: BlaklieMitchell-A Genetic Analysis of the Invasive Green Iguana (Iguana iguana) on Grand Cayman
3:45 PM: MoeinRajaei–Comparing the rate and spectrum of spontaneous mutation in two strains of Caenorhabditis elegans
4:00 PM: Networking in Breakout Rooms/PI Meetingu4:30 PM: Rohan Mehta-The relationship between haplotype-based FST and haplotype length
4:45 PM: Xiaoping Yi-Inhibition of molecular pathway of tumor progression in 3D cell cultures of prostate cancer cells
5:00 PM: Melinda Yang-Genetic history of northern and southern East Asians
5:15 PM: Awards
5:30 PM: Concluding Remarks
Poster Session A, October 26:
| Name | Title | Academic Position |
| Audrey Powell | Sex Dimorphism of Immune Response to bacterial infection in D. melanogaster | Undergraduate student |
| Bryan Rogers | A critical step in the evolution of life? | Faculty |
| Denise Horner | Sex Dimorphism of Immune Response to Non-pathogenic Bacterial Infection in D. melanogaster | Undergraduate student |
| John Mahas | Quantifying imidacloprid susceptibility in populations of Aphis gossypii | Graduate student |
| Katherine Eaton | Nanopore amplicon sequencing reveals molecular convergence and local adaptation of rhodopsin in Great Lakes salmonids | Graduate student |
| Lydia Warthin/Payal Patel | Investigating the Distribution and Taxonomic Status of Eurycea bislineata | Undergraduate students |
| Molly Caldwell | Consistent nest site selection by turtles across sites with varying levels of human disturbance | Graduate student |
| Nathaliade Albuquerque | Transposable element abundance correlates with mode of transmission in microsporidian parasites | Graduate student |
Poster Session B, October 27:
| Name | Title | Academic Position |
| Isabella Childers | Computational Analysis of Deletions in the Rhesus Macaque Genome by Recombination of Alu Elements | Undergraduate student |
| Jessie Pelosi | Population structure and dynamic fluctuations of effective population size in a polyploid fern complex | Graduate studen |
| Megan Stubbs | Population genetics of a recent range expansion by the southern pine beetle, Dendroctonusfrontalis, into the Northeastern United States | Other |
| Natalia Rivera Rincon | Changes in frequency of polymorphic inversions on natural populations of Drosophila robusta | Graduate student |
| Nevada King | Do invasive species adapt following introduction? Evaluating viability selection across native and introduced white clover populations. | Graduate student |
| Roark Gaspard | Evolution in an extreme range of the Central North American white clover cyanogenesis cline | Undergraduate student |
| Shivam Bhardwaj | Doublesex and sexual dimorphism in butterflies | Postdoc |
| Tashitso Anamza | Comparing hiearchicial Bayesian priors for estimating shared evolutionary events | Graduate student |
| Timothy Cronin | Sex Ratios and Reproduction in the protandricsimultaneous hermaphrodite, Lysmata wurdemanni | Graduate student |