II Virtual Meeting of Systematics, Biogeography, and Evolution
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The dates and times are on UTC/GMT–4 (CLICK HERE)
All invited talks were given on Zoom.
Whenever possible, we recorded the talks for later publication on our YouTube channel.
Poster sessions lasted 1 hour each and happened on Discord.
June 19
9:00 AM – 1:00 PM
Opening remarks, the Gender and Diversity in STEAMM (Part 1) symposium, and poster session #1 (Inclusion and Paleobiodiversity)
9:00 AM
Openning ceremony
Openning remarks and organization notes
9:10 AM
Professor Corrie Moreau, Ph.D.
Diversity, equity, and inclusion: an everyone issue
10:00 AM
Luisa Maria Diele Viegas, P.h.D
Possible paths to a more diverse and inclusive STEAMM
10:30 AM
Hugo Caicedo, Ph.D.
Surfacing anti-Black science and building antiracist teams
11:05 AM
Brigitte Baptiste, Ph.D.
Canceled. A video presentation may be provided later.
11:35 AM
Professor Leticia Oliveira, Ph.D.
The implicit bias and gender inequalities in science
12:00 PM
Poster session #1
First virtual poster session on Discord. Theme: Inclusion + Paleobiodiversity
June 19
2:00 PM – 6:00 PM
2. Paleobiodiversity and evolution
2:00 PM
Adriana Mancuso, Ph.D.
Is there evidence of the link between Triassic climatic and biotic events in western Gondwana?
2:50 PM
Juan Carrillo, Ph.D.
Diversification and dispersal dynamics of mammals during the Great American Biotic Interchange
3:15 PM
Professor Annie Schmaltz Hsiou, Ph.D.
An overview of the tetrapod fauna from the Miocene of the Southwestern Brazilian Amazonia
3:50 PM
Andrea Sanchez Meseguer, Ph.D.
Ancient tropical extinctions contributed to the latitudinal diversity gradient
4:15 PM
Thomas Püschel, Ph.D.
Virtual palaeoprimatology: Assessing ecomorphological questions in extinct anthropoids using the morpho-functional toolkit
4:40 PM
Professor Aline Ghilardi, Ph.D.
How a sick dinosaur revealed the oldest known blood-borne parasitic infection
5:00 PM
Poster session #2
Paleobiodiversity
June 20
9:00 AM – 1:00 PM
3. The new era of Biogeography
9:00 AM
Isabel Sanmartín Bastida, Ph.D.
Bridging the micro and macroevolutionary levels in biogeography: different processes, similar patterns and new advances to integrate them
9:50 AM
Nicholas Joseph Matzke, Ph.D.
Statistical comparison of DEC and DEC+J is statistically valid; and, a path towards more statistical sophistication and realism in phylogenetic biogeography
10:15 AM
Professor Lucia G. Lohmann, Ph.D.
The origin and evolution of the Amazonian Biota
10:50 AM
Pavel Fortunato Matos Maravi, Ph.D.
Historical biogeography of Neotropical butterflies: Understanding how species diversity assemble over time and across regions
11:15 AM
Fabricio Villalobos, Ph.D.
Species fields: an evolutionary macroecology approach to study biodiversity patterns
11:40 AM
Melisa Sanchez Herrera, Ph.D.
Following the footsteps and phylogeographic history of a highly polymorphic damselfly (Polythoridae: Odonata)
12:00 PM
Poster session #3
Biogeography
June 20
2:00 PM – 6:00 PM
4. Phylogeography: a growing bridge
2:00 PM
Fernanda Pino Werneck, Ph.D.
Narrowing the adaptive bridge in phylogeography: history and future of Neotropical herpetofauna in changing environments
2:50 PM
Professor Fabio Pinheiro, Ph.D.
The evolution of reproductive isolation within species: a growing bridge between phylogeography and speciation
3:15 PM
Diego F. Alvarado-Serrano, Ph.D.
A generalist among specialists? Exploring the evolutionary consequences of climate-induced distributional shifts in the Soft-Grass Mouse (Akodon mollis, Cricetidae)
3:50 PM
Professor Anne Yoder, Ph.D.
Investigating patterns of cryptic speciation in response to environmental change in Madagascar’s mouse lemurs
4:15 PM
Agustina Ojeda, Ph.D.
Patterns of genetic diversity and phylogeography in aridland rodents of Argentina
4:40 PM
Assoc. Prof. Andrew J. Crawford, Ph.D.
Phylogeography: the outcome of organism-environment interactions recorded in DNA.
5:00 PM
Poster session #4
Phylogeography
June 21
9:00 AM – 1:00 PM
5. Eco-evolutionary dynamics and the making of biodiversity
9:00 AM
Openning remarks
Notes from the SBE meeting 2021's organizing commitee
9:03 AM
Professor Liliana Davalos, Ph.D.
Diversity in the Skies: The Molecular Ecology of #BatSenses
9:53 AM
Assoc. Prof. Angélica Cibrián-Jaramillo, Ph.D.
Evolutionary genomics of ancient plants and their symbionts: from species to metabolites
10:23 AM
Sergio Tusso, Ph.D.
Experimental evolution of adaptive divergence under varying degrees of gene flow
11:03 AM
Mariana Pires Braga, Ph.D
Phylogenetic reconstruction of ancestral butterfly-plant networks
11:33 AM
Oskar Hagen, Ph.D.
Eco-Evolutionary Mechanistic Models, Deep-Time Paleo-reconstructions, and the Origins of Biodiversity
12:00 PM
Poster session #5
Molecular Ecology
2:00 PM
Openning remarks
Notes from the SBE meeting 2021's organizing committee and the researchers from UNC Charlotte's BRC
2:04 PM
Professor Daniel A. Janies, Ph.D.
The origins of human coronaviruses
2:32 PM
Eugenia Lo, PhD.
A breakthrough in Plasmodium vivax in invading human erythrocytes: how they spread in Africa?
3:00 PM
Professor Adam Reitzel, Ph.D.
Untangling the microbiome and its potential functions in the cnidarian Nematostella vectensis
3:35 PM
Tingting Xiang, Ph.D.
Uncovering molecular mechanisms that govern dinoflagellate-coral symbiosis
4:03 PM
Way Sung, Ph.D
Microfluidic mutation accumulation (µMA) and visualization tools (CDMAP/CDVIS) to study microbial evolution
4:31 PM
Professor Cynthia Gibas, Ph.D.
Operation Poo Patrol: monitoring a pandemic via wastewater at UNC Charlotte
4:56 PM
Closing remarks
Notes from the SBE meeting 2021's organizing committee and the researchers from UNC Charlotte's BRC
5:00 PM
Poster session #6
Bioinformatics + Molecular Ecology
June 22
9:00 AM – 1:00 PM
7. Principles, philosophy, and methodology of phylogenetic systematics
9:00 AM
Professor Scott V. Edwards, Ph.D.
Fifteen years of species trees: history and future of multispecies coalescent models in phylogenetics
9:50 AM
Luca Pozzi, Ph.D.
Hidden in the dark: the importance of integrative taxonomy and museum collections in exploring cryptic biodiversity
10:15 AM
Santiago A. Catalano, Ph.D.
Phylogenetic analysis of quantitative characters: the pendulum keeps swinging?
10:50 AM
Professor Tandy Warnow, Ph.D.
Progress and challenges in multiple sequence alignment
11:15 AM
Professor Ward Wheeler, Ph.D.
Phylogenetic supregraphs
11:40 AM
Professor Taran Grant, Ph.D.
Outgroup sampling in phylogenetics
12:00 PM
Poster session #7
Phylogenetic Methods + Biogeography + Phenomics
June 22
2:00 PM – 6:00 PM
8. Current methods and applications of big‐data phylogenetics
2:00 PM
Rebecca Dikow, Ph.D.
Genome-scale phylogenetics: breakthroughs and continued challenges
2:50 PM
Frédéric Delsuc, Ph.D.
Mammalian systematics in the age of genomics: from phylogenomics to species delineation
3:15 PM
Celine Scornavacca, Ph.D. and Denis Bourguet, Ph.D.
Do it yourself! Publishing without publishers
3:50 PM
Professor James McInerney, Ph.D.,
The evolution of prokaryotic pangenomes
4:15 PM
Kary Ocaña, Ph.D.
Developing Efficient Phylogenetics Scientific Experiments: Experiences in the Brazilian Petaflopic Supercomputing System
4:40 PM
Jonathan Chang, Ph.D.
Perpetual updates for the fish tree of life
5:00 PM
Poster session #8
Phylogenomics + Biogeography + Phylogeography
June 23
9:00 AM – 1:00 PM
9. Phenotype still matters in the genomic era
9:00 AM
Michael Tessler, Ph.D.
Phylogenomic node instability, node support, and the role of morphology in determining the relationships among ealy animal lineages
9:50 AM
Professor Stefan Richter, Ph.D.
Carcinization as a case study of evolutionary morphology
10:15 AM
Professor Anjali Goswami, Ph.D.
From development to deep time: reconstructing the evolution of diversity with a phenomic a
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10:50 AM
João Pedro Fontenelle, Ph.D.
Polymorphic, cryptic or hybridizing species? The importance of phenotype in interpreting molecular patterns in a fast evolving, taxonomically complicated group of Neotropical stingrays.
11:15 AM
Tiago R. Simoes, Ph.D.
Modeling morphological data and the ongoing revolution in deep-time phenotypic macroevolution
11:40 AM
Professor Paula Mabee, Ph.D.
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12:00 PM
Poster session #9
Phenomics
June 23
2:00 PM – 6:45 PM
10. Diversity and inclusion in STEAMM. Part 2. How do we move from theory to practice?
2:00 PM
Assoc. Prof. Fernanda Staniscuaski, Ph.D.
The parent in science movement in Brazil
2:50 PM
Professor Gabrielle Weber, Ph.D.
Making science more inclusive for LGBTQIA+ individuals
3:20 PM
Gemma Puixeu Sala, B.Sc.
Questioning the biological basis of sex and gender differences
3:55 PM
Rocío Deanna, Ph.D.
SOL Seminars Online and ARG Plant Women: two initiatives to increase diversity in Plant Sciences
4:25 PM
Amelia-Juliette Demery, B.Sc.
Safer science: strategies to protect at-risk researchers when conducting fieldwork
4:53 PM
Short notes
Short notes from the SBE meeting 2021's organizing committee
6:05 PM
Closing remarks and awards
Closing remarks and award ceremony for best poster presentations