2021-2022 Academic Year
Luella Allen-Waller
Title of talk: Endosymbiotic strategic shifts inhibit cooperation after coral bleaching
Conference: 10th Congress of the International Society of Symbiosis
Date: July 2022
Location: Lyon, France
Erin Doody
Title of poster: Natural variation in timing of vegetative phase change in A. thaliana
Conference:American Society of Plant Biology (ASPB) PB22
Date: July 2022
Location: Portland, OR, USA
Che-Ling Ho
Title of poster: Investigating the stomatal responses to the vapor-pressure deficit (VPD) and its association with anatomical traits in grasses
Conference: Gordon Research Conference: Assessing Plant Vascular Function Through Optical Approaches
Date: June 2022
Location: Newry, ME, USA
Yongjun Li
Title of talk: Sleep and memory consolidation are linked by RNA processing in Drosophila mushroom body
Conference: SRBR 2022 Biennial Conference
Date: May 2022
Location: Amelia Island, FL, USA
Sung-Ya Lin
Title of poster: Coevolution between two essential telomere binding proteins preserves chromosome end-protection
Conference: Population, Evolutionary, and Quantitative Genetics (PEQG) Conference 2022
Date: June 2022
Location: Pacific Grove, CA, USA
Wil Prall
Title of poster: Pathogen induced m6A dynamics regulate plant immunity
Conference: American Society of Plant Biology (ASPB) PB22
Date: July 2022
Location: Portland, OR, USA
2018–2019 Academic Year
Ben Galeota-Sprung
Title of poster: The fitness cost of mismatch repair mutators in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Conference: Gordon Research Conference: Microbial Population Biology
Date: July 2019
Location: Andover, NH, USA
Tomohiro Kumon
Title of poster: Evidence that CENP-B and CENP-C suppress biased segregation of selfish centromere DNA in female meiosis
Poster Authors: T. Kumon, J. Ma, D. Stefanik, E.C. Nordgren, R.B. Akins, J. Kim, M. Levine, M.A. Lampson
Conference: ASCB | EMBO Meeting: Cell Biology for the 21st Century
Date: December 2019
Location: Washington, DC, USA
Erica Lawrence
Title of poster: Developmental changes in leaf physiology and its implications for environmental adaptation
Conference: American Society of Plant Biologists: Plant Biology 2019
Date: August 2019
Location: San Jose, CA, USA
Takashi Nakamura
Title of poster: Identification of epigenetic regulators that play roles in therapy-induced tumor D
Conference: Cold Spring Harbor Conference Biology of Cancer: Microenvironment and Metastasis
Date: September 2019
Location: Cold Spring Harbor, NY, USA
Rohini Singh
Title of poster: Effects of Wolbachia on social traits and fitness of pharaoh ant colonies
Conference: Gordon Research Conference: Animal-Microbe Symbioses
Date: June 2019
Location: West Dover, VT, USA
2017–2018 Academic Year
Rohini Singh
Title of poster: Effects of Wolbachia on social traits and fitness in pharaoh ants
Conference: International Union for the Study of Social Insects XVIIIth International Congress
Date: August 2018
Location: Guaruja, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Justin Walsh
Title of poster: The genetic basis of behavioral variation in the pharaoh ant
Conference: International Union for the Study of Social Insects XVIIIth International Congress
Date: August 2018
Location: Guaruja, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Haoran Zhou
Title of poster: Further divergence and evolution of the hydraulic system and photosynthesis system in C4 species after carbon concentration mechanism evolved
Conference: Gordon Research Conference: Multiscale Plant Vascular Biology
Date: June 2018
Location: West Dover, VT, USA
2016–2017 Academic Year
Alexandra Brown
Title of presentation: Transmission mode evolution in conditional mutualisms with spatial variation in symbiont quality
Workshop: The Biology and Economics of Mutualism
Date: November 1-3, 2017
Location: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, German
2015–2016 Academic Year
Riley Graham
Title of presentation: Epigenetic reprogramming of caste specific foraging behavior in C. floridanus
Conference: 2016 XXV International Congress of Entomology
Date: September 2016
Location: Orlando, FL, USA
Aaron Leichty
Title of presentation: Evolution of vegetative phase change in Acacia
Conference: New Phytologist Symposium: Plant Develomental Evolution
Date: May 2016
Location: Beijing, China
Stephanie Seifert
Title of presentation: Phylogeography and evolution of the lyme disease pathogen, Borrelia burgdorferi, between multiple vector and host communities
Conference: 13th International Conference on Molecular Epidemiology and Evolutionary Genetics of Infectious Diseases
Date: May 2016
Location: Antwerp, Belgium
2014–2015 Academic Year
Emily Behrman
Title of presentation: Seasonal and latitudinal immune trade-offs in wild Drosophila
Conference: Evolution 2015
Date: June 2015
Location: Sao Paolo, Brazil
Lee Dietterich
Title of presentation: Effects of planted grasses and a pioneer tree on succession on a eavy metal contaminated mountainside
Conference: Society for Ecological Restoration
Date: August 2015
Location: Manchester UK
Mitra Eghbal
Title of presentation: Mutation rate evolution in rapidly adapting asexual mutator populations: An experimental study
Conference: Evolution 2015
Date: June 2015
Location: Sao Paolo, Brazil
Matias Escobar
Title of poster: Macf1 mediates spatial and temporal cytoskeletal dynamics functioing in animal-vegetal polarity establishment in oocytes
Authors: Matias Escobar-Aguirre, Allison Jamieson-Lucy, Ricardo Fuentes and Mary C. Mullins
Conference: Jacques Monod Conference: Actin and Microtubule Cytoskeleton in Cell Motility and Morphogenesis: An Integrated View
Date: May 2015
Location: Roscoff (Brittany) France
Aurora MacRae-Crerar
Title of presentation: Investigating the determinants of soil bacterial community structure in a Mongolian global change experiment
Conference: Ecological Science at the Frontier
Date: August 2015
Location: Baltimore, MD, USA
2013–2014 Academic Year
Swathi Ayloo
Title of poster: Mechanism of dynein activation by dynactin using single molecule approaches
Authors: Swathi Ayloo, Adita Dodda, Jacob E. Lazarus, Mariko Tokito, Michael E. Ostap, and Erika Holzbaur
Conference: American Society for Cell Biology
Date: December 2013
Location: New Orleans, LA, USA
Yang Ding
Title: Signatures of recent selective pressure on RNA structures in viral genomes
Conference: Evolution 2014 (Joint Annual Meeting of The Society for the Study of Evolution, The Society of Systematic Biologists, and The American Society of Naturalists)
Date: June 2014
Location: Raleigh, NC, USA
Vinayak Mathur
Title: Studying the role of population specific gene expression variation on climatic adaptation in Drosophila melanogaster
Conference: Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution
Date: June 2014
Location: San Juan, Puerto Rico
Tanya Singh
Title: Fates of beneficial and neutral mutations in hypermutable asexual populations
Conference: Mathematical and Computational Evolutionary Biology
Date: June 2014
Location: Montpellier, France