Schedule

Saturday, Jan. 7th, 2017 - Workshops - Hilton Capitol Center

9:00-5:00    RevBayes Introduction Workshop - Hilton Victory and Hunt Rooms

Sunday, Jan. 8th, 2017 - Workshops - Hilton Capitol Center

9:00-10:30     Workshop Session 1
10:30-11:00    Coffee Break
11:00-12:30    Workshop Session 2
12:30-1:30     Lunch
1:30-3:00      Workshop Session 3
3:00-3:30      Coffee Break
3:30-5:00      Workshop Session 4

Workshop assignments are listed at the bottom of this page

Morning (9-12:30, Sessions 1 and 2)
Biogeography in RevBayes (Governor Room)
Phylogenetic Reliability in RevBayes (Capitol Room)
Arbor (Victory Room)
Phrapl (Louisiana Room)
NSF Meet and Greet (Paramount Room)
TreeScaper (University Room)

Afternoon (1:30-5:00, Sessions 3 and 4)
BioGeoBears (Governor Room)
RevBayes: Analysis of Fossils and Molecular Data (Capitol Room)
Bayou (Victory Room)
Phrapl (Louisiana Room)
Dendropy (Paramount Room)
SSB Executive Council Meeting (University Room)

Monday, Jan. 9th, 2017 - General Meeting Day 1 - Manship Theatre

9:00-10:30 Debate/Panel Discussion Session 1
What do we really know about gene tree variation?
Led by Gavin Naylor and Scott Edwards
Moderated by Jeremy Brown

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break

11:00-12:00 Lightning Talk Session 1 (see below)

12:00-1:30 Lunch

1:30-3:00 Debate/Panel Discussion Session 2
Species delimitation, or is it?
Led by Anne Yoder and Frank Burbrink
Moderated by Bryan Carstens

3:00-3:30 Coffee Break

3:30-5:00 Lightning Talk Session 2 (see below)

6:00-9:00 Reception at the LSU Museum of Natural Science*

* Shuttles begin departing at 5:30 from the Shaw Centre and run both directions until 9:30

Tuesday, Jan. 10th, 2017 - General Meeting Day 2 - Manship Theatre

9:00-10:30 Debate/Panel Discussion Session 3
When do we care about gene trees and when do we care about species trees?
Led by Emily Jane McTavish and Matt Hahn
Moderated by Dave Weisrock

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break

11:00-12:00 Lightning Talk Session 3 (see below)

12:00-1:30 Lunch

1:30-3:00 Debate/Panel Discussion Session 4
Missing data in phylogenomics: When is it a problem? How big of a problem is it?
Led by Mark Holder and Rachel Schwartz
Moderated by Genevieve Mount

3:00-3:30 Coffee Break

3:30-5:00 Lightning Talk Session 4 (see below)

Lightning Talk Session 1

Monday, Jan. 9th, 11:00-12:00

Moderator: Dean Adams

11:00 Kory Evans-Jackson
Why the Long Face? Sexual Dimorphism in Neotropical Electric Fishes (Gymnotiformes:Teleostei)

11:05 Kassandra Ford
Quantitative analysis of shape and pigment in the Amazonian electric fish Steatogenys elegans

11:10 Michael G. Harvey
Evaluating approximate tests of trait-dependent diversification for quantitative characters

11:15 Gustavo Bravo
Convergent evolution of antbird plumage in dry habitats

11:20 Laura Lagomarsino
The repeated evolution of bat and hummingbird pollination in Neotropical bellflowers

11:25 William Freyman
Phylogenetic models of chromosome number evolution and chromosomal speciation

11:30 Laurel Yohe
Form follows function in the evolution of bat vomerolfaction

11:35 Clare Brown
Correlates and evolution of seasonal migration in swallows (Hirundinidae)

11:40 Glenn Seeholzer
A dramatic phenotypic cline in an Andean songbird: implications for local adaptation and speciation

11:45 Daniel Caetano
ratematrix: a R package to study patterns of evolutionary integration using phylogenetic trees

11:50 Alexander (Sasha) Mikheyev
Interactive web-based visualization of phylogenetic trees using Phylogeny.IO

11:55 Dean Adams
How NOT to perform multivariate phylogenetic comparative analyses

Lightning Talk Session 2

Monday, Jan. 9th, 3:30-5:00

Moderator: Brant Faircloth

3:30 Jake Esselstyn
Interrogating difficult nodes in the placental mammal tree

3:35 Mark Swanson
Mice, squirrels, and guinea pigs: resolving a tricky node in the rodent tree

3:40 Bryan McLean
Impacts of phylogenomic dataset filtering for resolving a rapid radiation of ground squirrels

3:45 Jonathan Chang
A complete ray-finned fish phylogeny using taxonomy and birth-death models

3:50 Guillermo Orti
In silico target capture fish phylogenetics

3:55 Lily Hughes
In silico capture fish phylogenetics

4:00 Jessie Salter
A phylogenomic hypothesis of relationships among Typical Owls (Strigidae)

4:05 Carl Oliveros
A fossil-calibrated time tree of passerines

4:10 Diego Morales-Briones
Systematics and phylogenomics of the neotropical radiation of Lachemilla (Rosaceae)

4:15 Dahiana Arcila
Genome-wide interrogation advances resolution of recalcitrant groups in the Tree of Life

4:20 Ricardo Betancur
Gene genealogy interrogation and the root of the angiosperm tree: overwhelming support for the Ambor

4:25 Ya Yang
Building genomic resources towards a model clade in the highly diverse plant group Caryophyllales

4:30 David Swofford
New developments in the SVDQuartets method for species-tree inference

4:35 Matt Hahn
Why concatenation fails in the anomaly zone

4:40 Alan Lemmon
Anchored phylogenomics across the Tree of Life

4:45 Paul Hime
What the hellbender?! Genomic data reveal cryptic diversity in North America's largest salamander

4:50 Nathan Upham
Rates and drivers of species-level diversification in global Mammalia

4:55 Jack Craig
Revision of the electric fish Gymnotus carapo, a eurytopic, polytypic species with seven subspecies

Lightning Talk Session 3

Tuesday, Jan. 10th, 11:00-12:00

Moderator: Stacey Smith

11:00 Ariadna Morales
Species delimitation with gene flow in Myotis lucifugus bats

11:05 Lukas Musher
How priors and methods affect species delimitation in a genus Neotropical birds (Pachyramphus)

11:10 Sarah Jacobs
Dealing with incongruence when delimiting species

11:15 Robb Brumfield
What is a bird species? A perspective from someone who loathes species concepts

11:20 Ryan Folk
Historical range dynamics drove hybridization in a lineage of angiosperms

11:25 Laura Frost
Biogeography of Neotropical plant genus Citharexylum (Verbenaceae)

11:30 Nelson Salinas
Statistical modeling of areas of endemism: a Markov random field approach

11:35 George Tiley
A genomic perspective on galliform evolution

11:40 Bryan Carstens
Big Data for Phylogeography

11:45 Ben Peter
Trees, admixture and F-statistics

11:50 Megan Ruffley
Phylogeographic model adequacy in Alnus rubra

11:55 Elijah Wostl
Philautus of the Sunda Shelf

Lightning Talk Session 4

Tuesday, Jan. 10th, 3:30-5:00

Moderator: Brian O'Meara

3:30 Kaiya Provost
Genetic and behavioral divergence among Northern Cardinal populations: Testing the permeability of a biogeographic barrier

3:35 Benjamin Blanchard
Defensive traits exhibit an evolutionary trade-off and drive diversification in ants

3:40 April Wright
Fossilized birth-death dating in Formicidae

3:45 Sebastian Höhna
Placenta type is driving mammalian diversification

3:50 Kayce Bell
A phylogenomic perspective on chipmunk and louse diversification

3:55 Matthew Van Dam
Unraveling a radiation of weevils using UCEs (examining host use, biogeography and diversification)

4:00 Lesley Kim
Diversification of the G2 clade (Teleostei: Gymnotiformes)

4:05 Javier Igea
Seed size and its rate of evolution correlate with species diversification across angiosperms

4:10 Jamie Oaks
Ecoevolity: Estimating evolutionary coevality

4:15 Randy Klabacka
Speciation or isolated diversification: The hidden variation of Draco maculatus

4:20 Emily Ellis
High rates of species accumulation in animals with bioluminescent courtship displays

4:25 Lyndon Coghill
The shifting sands of site rates: can the covarian model improve phylogenomic analyses?

4:30 Cathy Newman
Dynamic evolutionary history of genome size in North American woodland salamanders

4:35 Andrew Swafford
The origin and tempo of opsin family evolution

4:40 Akanksha Pandey
Implications of protein structure based partitioning on phylogenetics inference

4:45 Alexandra Hernandez
Why are alien genes predominantly enzymes? Insights from ctenophores

4:50 Breanna Sipley
Evolution of Venom Allergen-Like Proteins in Fish Blood Flukes (Platyhelminthes: Trematoda)

4:55 William Booker
The tetraploid origins of Hyla versicolor: laying the groundwork for a new model system in polyploid investigation

Arbor Workshop

Primary Instructor: Luke Harmon
Clare Brown
Kevin Burns
Shannon Corrigan
Amelia-Juliette Demery
Kory Evans-Jackson
Kassandra Ford
Rachel Jabaily
Teisha King
Jose Maldonado
Rafael Marcondes
Sarah Maunsell
Bryan McLean
Jonathan Nations
Benjamin Peter
Kaiya Provost
Emily Sessa
Megan Smith
Lei Yang

Bayou Workshop

Primary Instructor: Josef Uyeda
Benjamin Blanchard
Kevin Burns
Amelia-Juliette Demery
Kory Evans-Jackson
Kassandra Ford
Felipe Grazziotin
Teisha King
Laura Lagomarsino
Rafael Marcondes
Sarah Maunsell
Jonathan Nations
Rosalyn Price-Waldman
Mark Swanson
Alec Turner
Lei Yang

BioGeoBears Workshop

Primary Instructor: Nick Matzke
Dahiana Arcila
Kayce Bell
Ricardo Betancur
Clare Brown
Robb Brumfield
Prosanta Chakrabarty
Shannon Corrigan
Laura Frost
Anna Hiller
Rachel Jabaily
Lesley Kim
Sara Lipshutz
John McCormack
Genevieve Mount
Lukas Musher
Carl Oliveros
Elyse Parker
Goutam Sarker
Megan Smith
Benjamin Stone
Elijah Wostl

Dendropy Workshop

Primary Instructor: Jeet Sukumaran
Fernando Alda
Marek Borowiec
Gustavo Bravo
Daniel Caetano
Kerry Cobb
Lyndon Coghill
Devon DeRaad
Vinson Doyle
Ryan Folk
Laura Jackson
Oscar Johnson
Randy Klabacka
Jose Maldonado
James Maley
Akanksha Pandey
Benjamin Peter
Kaiya Provost
Breanna Sipley
Rebecca Stubbs
David Swofford
George Tiley
Whitney Tsai
Ya Yang

NSF Meet and Greet

Program Directors: Prosanta Chakrabarty and Ashley Dowling
Anna Hiller
Randy Klabacka
Laura Lagomarsino
John McCormack
Luca Pozzi
George Tiley
Elijah Wostl
Ya Yang

Phrapl

Primary Instructors: Brian O'Meara and Bryan Carstens
AnaPaula Costa

Mysia Dye
Diego Elias
Lauren Eserman
Michael Harvey
Lily Hughes
Sarah Jacobs
Alexander Mikheyev
Catherine Newman
Megan Ruffley
Glenn Seeholzer
Amie Settlecowski
Trisha Spanbauer
Brandon Waltz
Anne Yoder

Biogeography in RevBayes

Primary Instructor: Michael Landis
Dahiana Arcila
Ricardo Betancur
Robb Brumfield
Alexandria DiGiacomo
Brant Faircloth
Laura Frost
Tom Giarla
Javier Igea
Lesley Kim
Sara Lipshutz
Brooke Long
Roberta Mendes
Rob Meredith
Diego Morales-Briones
Genevieve Mount
Carl Oliveros
Elyse Parker
Nelson Salinas
Jessie Salter
Benjamin Stone
Rebecca Stubbs
Gregory Stull
Alec Turner
Nathan Upham
Matthew VanDam
Rachel Welt

RevBayes: Analysis of Fossils and Molecular Data

Primary Instructor: Tracy Heath
Dean Adams
William Booker
Alexandria DiGiacomo
Brant Faircloth
Tom Giarla
Paul Hime
Javier Igea
Brooke Long
Bryan McLean
Roberta Mendes
Rob Meredith
Diego Morales-Briones
David Morris
Todd Oakley
Guillermo Orti
Luca Pozzi
Nelson Salinas
Jessie Salter
Emily Sessa
Laura Soul
Gregory Stull
Nathan Upham
Matthew VanDam
Rachel Welt

Phylogenetic Reliability in RevBayes

Primary Instructor: Lyndon Coghill
Dean Adams
Kayce Bell
Benjamin Blanchard
William Booker
Marek Borowiec
Daniel Caetano
Kerry Cobb
Devon DeRaad
Vinson Doyle
Paul Hime
James Maley
David Morris
Todd Oakley
Guillermo Orti
Akanksha Pandey
Rosalyn Price-Waldman
Laura Soul
Mark Swanson
Whitney Tsai

TreeScaper

Primary Instructor: Jeremy Ash
Fernando Alda
Gustavo Bravo
Laura Jackson
Oscar Johnson
Lukas Musher
Goutam Sarker
Breanna Sipley
David Swofford