On September 24th, Evo-Group and the Department of Ecology &
Evolutionary Biology will be hosting a one-day symposium entitled
EVOEVENT: EXPLORING THE TREE OF LIFE: Phylogenetics, Specimen-based
Research, and Comparative Biology, sponsored by the AD White
Professors-at-Large Program.Our goal is to celebrate the broad
diversity of comparative organismal research on Cornell’s campus
with a day of talks and discussions. Our speakers, both from Cornell
and invited guests, represent a diversity of research perspectives and
approaches to studying evolutionary relationships across a range of
biological systems, comparing the phenotypes that underlie that
diversity, and often assessing biological diversity through
specimen-based research. We will host fourteen talks in four sessions,
with plenty of additional time for discussion and socializing.
Attendance is free, coffee and lunch will be provided, and the day
will close with a reception with hors d’oeuvres and drinks.
We look forward to seeing you there!
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SCHEDULE
9:00-9:40 AM COFFEE AND WELCOME
SESSION I
9:40-10:00 am -- Anurag Agrawal “COMPARATIVE TESTS OF PLANT DEFENSE
THEORY”
10:00-10:20 am – Luke Harmon “SCALING THE TREE OF LIFE”
10:20-10:40 am – Leo Campagna “THE EVOLUTION OF FLIGHTLESSNESS IN
PATAGONIAN STEAMER DUCKS”
10:40-11:00 am – Bryan Danforth “DATING THE ANTIQUITY OF
POLLENIVORY IN BEES AND WASPS”
11:00 AM COFFEE BREAK
SESSION II
11:30-11:50 am – Andy Moeller “CO-DIVERSIFICATION OF GUT BACTERIA
WITH MAMMALIAN SPECIES”
11:50 am-12:10 pm – Chelsea Specht “BETWEEN BANANAS AND GINGERS:
USING FOSSILS AND LOADS OF CHARACTERS TO TEASE APART AN ANCIENT
RADIATION”
12:10 pm-12:30 pm – Casey Dillman “CHANGING THROUGH TIME:
COMMUNITY STRUCTURE, PHENOTYPES, AND NATURAL HISTORY COLLECTIONS”
12:30-12:50 pm – Kerry Shaw “THE HAWAIIAN CRICKET LAUPALA:
ARGUMENTS FOR A NON-ADAPTIVE RADIATION AND ITS RELEVANCE TO ADAPTIVE
RADIATION”
12:50 PM LUNCH
SESSION III
2:10 - 3:00 pm – David Hillis “PHYLOGENY, GENE DUPLICATION, AND
THE EVOLUTION OF VERTEBRATE NERVOUS SYSTEMS”
3:00 -3:20 pm – Corrie Moreau “USING MUSEUM COLLECTIONS FOR
PHYLOGENOMICS AND TO UNDERSTAND THE IMPACTS OF CLIMATIC CHANGE”
3:20 PM COFFEE BREAK
SESSION IV
3:50-4:10 pm – Adam Summers “HOW AND WHY TO SCAN ALL THE FISHES”
4:10-4:30 pm – Patrick O’Grady “TIMING AND DIVERSIFICATION OF
HAWAIIAN INSECTS”
4:30-4:50 pm – Vanya Rohwer “HIGHER NEST PREDATION FAVORS RAPID
FLEDGING AT THE COST OF PLUMAGE QUALITY IN NESTLING BIRDS”
4:50-5:10 PM – Harry Greene “SPECIMEN-BASED NATURAL HISTORY AND
THE TREE OF LIFE”
5:10-6:45 PM RECEPTION
food
cricket
Museum
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