Perspectives on Diversity

Sunday, November 13, 2022

8:00 AM – 11:00 AM PT

Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 211

Organizer(s)

Research talks by 3 paired groups of scientists on insect evolution, ecology and biodiversity.

8:00 AM – 8:10 AM PT

Introductory remarks
Presenting Author: Jessica L. Ware – American Museum of Natural History
8:10 AM – 8:30 AM PT

Juvenile social experience shifts female choosiness in widow spiders
Presenting Author: Maydianne Andrade – University of Toronto
8:30 AM – 8:50 AM PT

Is species discrimination under female or male control? An experimental approach using widow spiders
Presenting Author: Luciana Baruffaldi – University of Toronto Scarborough
8:50 AM – 9:10 AM PT

Evolving habitat-specific reproductive capacity: The Hawaiian Drosophila as a model clade
Presenting Author: Cassandra Extavour – Harvard University
9:10 AM – 9:20 AM PT

Break
9:20 AM – 9:40 AM PT

A high-quality genome assembly, annotation, and analysis of the European earwig (Forficula auricularia) with a low coverage long-read sequencing
Presenting Author: Upendra R. Bhattarai (he/him/his) – Harvard University
9:40 AM – 10:00 AM PT

Frequency-dependent selection and patterns of reproductive isolation among populations help maintain polymorphism in a aposematic moth
Presenting Author: Swanne Gordon – Washington University in St. Louis
10:00 AM – 10:20 AM PT

Plasticity in multiple traits can generate assortative mating by ecological niche in the keeled treehopper
Presenting Author: Kasey D. Fowler-Finn – Saint Louis University
10:20 AM – 10:25 AM PT

Closing remarks
Presenting Author: Jessica L. Ware – American Museum of Natural History