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ATWOOD 2022
2022
ATWOOD
Colloquium in Ecology and Evolution
HART HOUSE GREAT HALL
THURSDAY APRIL 21, 1:15 TO 6:00 PM
FRIDAY APRIL 22, 9:00 AM TO 6:00 PM
#Atwood2022
DAY ONE
THURSDAY APRIL 21st
1:15 OPENING REMARKS: Dr. Njal Rollinson & Dr. Matt Osmond
Moderator: Julie Gan
1:25 EMMA WALKER | GILBERT LAB
Integrating positive density dependence into modern coexistence theory
1:45 ALEJANDRO IZQUIERDO LOPEZ | CARON LAB
Striking disparity at the origin of crustaceans and centipedes illustrated by Cambrian fossils from the Burgess Shale
2:05 JAMESON KUNKEL | WEIS LAB (Virtual)
Isolation by distance stabilizes genetic effects of assortative mating
2:25 NICHOLAS SOOKHAN | MACIVOR LAB (Virtual)
Effects of compositional and configurational heterogeneity on urban pollinator diversity and pollination services
2:45 DR. LINYI ZHANG | EEB POSTDOC
Asymmetric habitat isolation and sexual isolation predicted by the cost of migration and hybridization generate novel signatures of reinforcing selection
3:05 BREAK
Moderator: Julie Gan
3:20 DR. JUAN VARGAS | MOLNAR LAB
Interaction amoung wild and domestic canids in an urban landscape and its effects on disease
3:40 GEORGE SANDLER | WRIGHT & AGRAWAL LABS
Allelic associations across the genome, what do they tell us about demography, selection, and recombination
4:00 ELSE MIKKELSEN | WEIR LAB
Whole genome sequencing reveals the evolutionary history of an enigmatic seabird family
4:20 ROSEMARY MARTIN | McCAULEY LAB
Effects of winter length on body condition, dispersal ability, and reproduction in aquatic invertebrate Notonecta undulata
4:40 MARIA TOCORA ALONSO | FREDERICKSON LAB
Transcriptomic analysis of cooperative behaviour in a mutualistic ant-plant interaction
5:00 BREAK
5:15 KEYNOTE: RISING STAR in ECOLOGY: DR. SARA MITRI. University of Lausanne
Synthetic ecology of microbial communities: understand, control, design
6:30 SOCIAL at EAST OF BRUNSWICK PUB & KITCHEN
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DAY TWO
FRIDAY APRIL 22nd
8:30 CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST at HART HOUSE
Moderator: Rachel Giles
9:00 DR. JACQUELINE SZTEPANACZ | SZTEPANACZ LAB (Virtual)
The genetic architecture of copulatory traits
9:20 JAMES SANTANGELO | JOHNSON & NESS LABS
Global urban environmental change drives adaptation in white clover
9:40 DR. MAX FARRELL | MIDEO LAB
Text mining and the evolution of infection outcomes across species
10:00 BAILEY HEWITT & JILL WHEELER | EEB ALLIES
10:10 BREAK
Moderator: Rachel Giles
10:35 MARIEL TEREBIZNIK | ROLLINSON LAB
The evolution and maintenance of temperature-dependent sex determination
10:55 CELIA HEIN | WAGNER LAB (Virtual)
Multi-scale habitat selection of wild bees
11:15 LEILA KRICHEL | KRKOSEK LAB (Virtual)
Theoretical and empirical impacts of temperature variability on endemic prevalence of an environmentally-transmitted infectious disease
11:35 BREAK
11:50 RISING STAR IN EVOLUTION: DR. JEROME KELLEHER. University of Oxford (Virtual)
Genealogical trees in the era of mega sample genomics
12:50 LUNCH at HART HOUSE
Moderator: Adeena Zahid
2:00 ELEVATOR TALKS
CHRIS CARLSON | FREDERICKSON LAB
HUIMEI YANG | WANG LAB (Virtual)
DALE PEBESMA | GILBERT LAB
VIPLAV AGARWAL | DILLON LAB
FRANCINE DA SILVA | KOTANEN LAB
AVERY SCHWARZ | DARLING LAB (Virtual)
SYDNEY ACKERMANN | OSMOND LAB (Virtual)
ILIA FERZOCO | McCAULEY LAB (Virtual)
2:25 NIKOL DIMITROV | FORTIN LAB (Virtual)
Understanding the effects of fox movement on the spread of sarcoptic mange in urban settings - an individual-based modelling approach
2:45 PUNEETH DERAJE | OSMOND LAB
The effect of mate-limitation on evolutionary rescue
3:05 BREAK
Moderator: Francine Da Silva
3:20 ELEVATOR TALKS
CHARLOTTE CRAIG | MACIVOR LAB
ADEENA ZAHID | JACKSON LAB
FERNE KOTLYAR | WAGNER LAB
KEVIN DOHENY | SZTEPANACZ LAB
ILAPREET TOOR | HOLMES LAB (Virtual)
BENJAMIN ZDASIUK | FORTIN LAB
MADELEINE MILNE | ROCHMAN LAB
JAIME GRIMM | KRKOSEK LAB (Virtual)
3:45 PRASHASTHA MISHRA | AGRAWAL LAB
Cis-regulatory variation and sexual dimorphism in Drosophila melanogaster
4:05 RACHEL GILES | ROCHMAN LAB
Road Runoff in a Lake Ontario Tributary: a cocktail of multiple stressors and the response of benthic communities
4:25 BREAK (walk over to KP108)
4:50 ATWOOD FAMILY INTRODUCTION
5:00 KEYNOTE in KP108: ATWOOD MEMORIAL LECTURE: DR. MARLENE ZUK. University of Minnesota
Dancing cockatoos and the dead man test: how behaviour evolves and why it matters
6:00 CLOSING REMARKS: NJAL ROLLINSON & MATT OSMOND
6:30 GRADUATE STUDENT APPRECIATION NIGHT at HART HOUSE
ABOUT
DR. CARL ATWOOD was a respected forest entomologist, ecologist, and naturalist, who taught at the University of Toronto from 1946 to 1972. Each year, the EEB graduate students select a scientist of high distinction whose work embodies Dr. Atwood's dedication to the ecological sciences to give a lecture in his honour. This lecture series is made possible by a generous endowment from the Atwood family.
The 2022 Atwood Colloquium in Ecology and Evolution was organized by: Jaime Grimm, Vicki Zhang, Leila Forsyth, Rebecca Schalkowski, Njal Rollinson, and Matthew Osmond. Thank you to our volunteers: Sydney Ackermann, Viplav Agarwal, Miriam Ahmad-Gawel, Kayla Bazzana, Gwendolyn Clark, Francine Da Silva, Puneeth Deraje, Rachel Giles, Julie Han, Ferne Kotlyar, Leila Krichel, Claudia Lacroix, Lauren Lawson, Gavia Lertzman-Lepofsky, Chloe Melo-Gavin, Prashastha Mishra, Kelly Murray-Stoker, Madeleine Oman, Emma Walker, Yimin Yu, and Adeena Zahid.
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