Symposia

Theory of evolution
Organizers: Sam Scheiner, NSF and David Mindell, UC Berkeley
​Sponsor: ASN
Speakers:
  • Samuel Scheiner (National Science Foundation) The theory of evolution: A conceptual framework
  • V. Betty Smocovitis (University of Florida) The importance of history to the modern synthesis
  • Alan Love (University of Minnesota – Twin Cities) Situating evolutionary developmental biology in evolutionary theory 
  • David Jablonski (University of Chicago) Macroevolutionary theory
  • Maria Orive (University of Kansas) The evolution of sex
  • Rosemary Gillespie (University of California – Berkeley) The theory of evolutionary biogeography
  • David Mindell (University of California – Berkeley) The theory of evolution: Growth and outlook​
ASN Vice-Presidential symposium
Organizer: Meghan Duffy, University of Michigan
Speakers:
  • Nina Wale (University of Michigan) The use and underuse of model systems in the study of host-parasite interactions
  • Nkrumah Grant (Michigan State University) Genotypic and phenotypic consequences of relaxed selection on anaerobic growth spanning 60,000 generations in a long-term evolution experiment with Escherichia coli
  • Carlos Garcia-Robledo (University of Connecticut) Thermodemography: Forecasting insect fitness along elevational gradients under projected global warming
  • D. André Green (University of Michigan) Developing the monarch butterfly as an integrative eco-evo-devo model
  • Swanne Gordon (Washington University) Sex- and morph-biased dispersal affect population structure and polymorphism: a test using a 'non-model' model system
  • Rachel Penczykowski (Washington University) Plantago spp. as models for studying plant-pathogen and plant-herbivore interactions across environmental gradients
Using machine learning to understand the evolution of biodiversity
Organizers:  Chris Hamilton, University of Idaho and Marek Borowiec, University of Idaho
​Sponsor: SSE
Speakers:
  • Megan Smith (The Ohio State University) Using Machine Learning to investigate species limits and speciation
  • Shahan Derkarabetian (Harvard University) Inferring species limits and structure with machine learning algorithms
  • Anton Suvorov (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) Exploring the potential of deep learning for faster and more accurate phylogenetic inference
  • Briana Ezray (lead; The Pennsylvania State University) & Drew Wham (co-presenter; The Pennsylvania State University) Measuring perceptual distance of organismal color pattern using pre-trained neural networks
  • Andrew Kern (University of Oregon)  Deep learning prediction of geographic origin from individual genome sequences
  • Sara Mathieson (Haverford College) Adaptive evolutionary inference across human populations using convolutional neural networks
  • Anahí Espíndola (University of Maryland, College Park) Machine learning as a tool for conservation at different scales
  • Rebecca Dikow (lead; Smithsonian Institution) & Paul Fransden (Brigham Young University & Smithsonian Institution) Using machine learning to derive biological insights from digitized natural history collections​​
Evolution in the tropics: 70 years since Dobzhansky
Organizers: Kathleen Kay (UC Santa Cruz) and Oscar Vargas (UC Santa Cruz)
​Sponsor: SSE
Speakers:
  • Kathleen Kay (UC Santa Cruz) Dobzhansky, Janzen, and speciation research in the tropics
  • Jonathan Rolland (University of British Columbia) Macroevolutionary approaches and the construction of the latitudinal diversity gradient
  • Oscar Vargas (UC Santa Cruz) Testing hypotheses for neotropical plant diversification using comparative methods
  • Kimberly Sheldon (University of Tennessee) Janzen's mountain passes and diversification in the tropics
  • Michael Harvey (University of Tennessee) Standing species richness shapes the tempo and mode of avian speciation across the Neotropics
  • Phyllis Coley (University of Utah) The role of plant-herbivore interactions in the maintenance and origin of tropical tree​
Education symposium
Organizer: TBD
​Sponsor: SSE
Speakers: TBD
Advances and challenges in robust phylogenetic inference from large phylogenomic datasets
Organizers: Siavash Mirarab, UC San Diego, Lisa Pokorny, Centre for Plant Biotechnology and Genomics, Madrid, and Tandy Warnow, University of Illinois
​Sponsor: SSB
Speakers:
  • Siavash Mirarab (UC San Diego) New methods for species tree estimation addressing gene duplication and loss 
  • Erin Molloy (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) Scaling species tree estimation to large datasets using TreeMerge
  • Tandy Warnow (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) Challenges and advances in large-scale multiple sequence alignment
  • Lisa Pokorny (Centre for Plant Biotechnology and Genomics, Madrid) Empirical challenges in species tree estimation from large phylogenomic datasets
  • Stephen Crotty (Center for Integrative Bioinformatics, Vienna) Phylogeny estimation using GHOST
  • Luay Nakhleh (Rice University) Progress in phylogenetic network estimation
  • Peter Foster (Natural History Museum, London) TBD
PhyloCode 2020: Naming the Tree of Life - examples of the application of phylogenetic nomenclature at a variety of phylogenetic scales
Organizers: Nico Cellinese, University of Florida and Michael Donoghue, Yale University Yale
​Sponsor: SSB
Speakers: 
  • Nico Cellinese (University of Florida)
  • Michael Donoghue (Yale University)
  • Kevin de Queiroz (Smithsonian Institution)
  • Jacques Gauthier (Yale University)
  • Sina Adl (University of Saskatchewan )
  • David Hibbett (Clark University)
  • Thomas Near (Yale University)
  • Michel Laurin (Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle)
  • Anne Yoder (Duke University)
  • Julia Clarke (University of Texas)
How do we make decisions about data and analyses in systematic biology? It depends!
Organizers: Natya Hans​, Univ. Florida, Alexandra Hernandez​, Univ. Florida and Chloe Nash​, Univ. Chicago
​Sponsor: SSB
Speakers: TBD
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