Student Presentations!
- Marek Borowiec and Chris Hamilton talk about trees for mygalomorphs and malagasy ants.
- Maria Medeiros and Suman Neupane lead off with a discussion of divergence times in Rubiaceae.
- Stephanie Haddad and Sergey Tarasov have an inordinate fondness for beetle phylogeny.
- Bruno de Medeiros and Federico Lopez on wasps, weevils, and beautiful trace files.
- Christoph Liedtke and Cesar Herrera’s talk on toad time trees.
- Judy Wexler and Anaëlle Soulebeau on correlated trait evolution in malagasy euphorbia.
- JR Wood, Phillip Skipwith, and Mike May talk about evolution of lizards and toads.
- Victor Tagliacollo and Matt McGee study the evolution of electric fish (and spark shocking-ly bad puns).
- Jon Kennedy and Hannah Marx discuss whether malagasy vangids are an adaptive radiation
- Jacob Landis and John Chau discuss evolution of flower pollination morphology
- Caroline Dong and Evan McCartney-Melstad discuss phylogeny and divergence times of some (relatively) hyperdiverse turtles
- Michael San Jose and Áki Laruson talk about the evolution of polyphagy in flies
- Susan Hepp and Angus Chandler – A Virus of the Yams
- Ichthornithologists Sarah Longo and Glenn Seeholzer on ovenbirds and seahorses.
- Traci Grzymala and Jose Zuñiga discuss divergence times and trait evolution in beetles.
- Gabriela Garcia-Soto and Marcelo Reginato talk about the evolution of anther and ovary shape.
photos: Luke Mahler
Awesome work by all of the presenters this year!