Presentation Awards at the PASEDB 2019 Meeting
Congratulations!
Congratulations!
PASEDB thanks Natalie Olivero (Cambridge University Press), Lewis Held, Scott Gilbert, and Chuck Crumly (Taylor & Francis) for generous donations of book prizes to our trainee award winners!
Undergraduate Poster Presentations
Graduate Poster Presentations
Graduate Oral Presentations
Postdoctoral Poster Presentations
Postdoctoral Oral Presentations
- 1st place: Benjamin J. Brack, Cornell University - "Genetic basis of ommochrome pigmentation in butterfly wings", Supervisor: Robert D. Reed
- 2nd place: Mandy Cumming, University of North Florida - "The developmental underpinnings of the miniaturized body plan of Tardigrada", Supervisor: Frank Smith
Graduate Poster Presentations
- 1st place: Anyi Mazo-Vargas, Cornell University - "cis-regulatory architecture of butterfly wing pattern evolution", Supervisor: Robert Reed
- 2nd place: Kenneth Z. McKenna, Duke University - "Exploring the role of insulin signaling in relative growth: a case study on wing body scaling in Lepidoptera", Supervisor: Fred Nijhout
- Honorable Mention: Ellie Spahr, West Virginia University - "Genetic underpinnings of novel trait development within a beetle-fungal mutualism", Supervisor: Teiya Kijimoto
Graduate Oral Presentations
- 1st place: Vikram Chandra, Rockefeller University - "Social regulation of insulin signaling and the evolution of eusociality in ants", Supervisor: Daniel Kronauer
- 2nd place: Eden W. McQueen, University of Pittsburg - "Dissecting the shared and divergent genetic architectures of a novel male genital structure and a novel female genital structure", Supervisor: Mark Rebeiz
Postdoctoral Poster Presentations
- 1st place: Jacob Daane, Northeastern University - "From the depths: deep comparative phylogenomics in fishes to identify genetic mechanisms of evolution, development and disease"
- 2nd place: Seth Donoughe, University of Chicago - "A simple developmental model explains emergent tissue patterns and wing morphologies from a wide diversity of extant and fossilized insects"
- Honorable Mention: Rebecca Young, University of Texas-Austin - "How to quantify complex behavioral phenotypes across vertebrates: leveraging network analysis to study the evolution of sociality"
Postdoctoral Oral Presentations
- 1st place: Maryna P. Lesoway, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign - "Sex change in marine snails: leveraging ecotoxicology to identify developmental mechanisms"
- 2nd place: Cera R. Fisher, University of Connecticut - "Characterizing co-option in the evolution of the treehopper helmet, a novel body wall outgrowth"
PASEDB Award Winners 2019
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Service Award Winner (Inaugural Award)
Scott F. Gilbert Swarthmore College Early Career Award Winner Kim Cooper University of California San Diego Rudy Raff Pioneer Award Winner Mary Jane West-Eberhard Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute |
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Special Guest Speaker
To recognize Mary Jane West-Eberhard's seminal contributions to evolutionary developmental biology and to celebrate her acceptance of our Rudy Raff Pioneer Award, Ralf Sommer (Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology) will deliver a special invited plenary in her honor.
Ralf Sommer
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Mary Jane West-Eberhard
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Special Plenary Title
From alternative phenotypes to nature and nurture: Mary Jane West-Eberhard and her journey towards a true developmental evolutionary biology
From alternative phenotypes to nature and nurture: Mary Jane West-Eberhard and her journey towards a true developmental evolutionary biology
The Journal of Experimental Zoology (JEZ) and its Role in the Birth of Devo-Evo
A Symposium Honoring Günter Wagner
A Symposium Honoring Günter Wagner
Günter Wagner, Yale University
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This symposium will recognize Professor Günter Wagner for his contributions to the Journal of Experimental Zoology, Part B, in which he recently stepped down as Editor-in-Chief. Professor Wagner has also contributed much to the field and is widely recognized for his intellectual depth and curiosity. He is a former MacArthur Fellow and was recently elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
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Symposium Speakers
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Karen Crow
How the devil ray got its horns: the genetic basis of body plan remodeling in manta rays and their relatives |
Vincent Lynch
Revisiting the role of transcription factors in developmental evolution |
Manfred Laubichler
Developmental evolution as a mechanistic science 2.0 |
Tiana Kohlsdorf
Limb diversification in microteiid lizards: morphology, ecology and development |
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Alexander Vargas
Reversion and deep homology in Dinosauria |
Chi-hua Groff
Hox cluster evolution in the ray-finned fishes |
Invited Plenary Speakers
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Patricia Schneider
Emerging models of duplication and loss of eye structures: the amazonian four eyed fish (Anableps anableps) and the subterranean catfish (Phreatobius cisternarum) |
Rajendhran Rajakumar
Social regulation of a rudimentary organ generates complex worker-caste systems in ants |
Yaowu Yuan
The genetic basis and developmental mechanisms of phenotypic diversification, integration, and innovation in monkeyflowers |
Leslie S. Babonis
Parallel evolution of novel cell types at the base of the animal tree of life |
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Wenheng Zhang
Evolution and development of floral zygomorphy |
Prashant Sharma
Disruption of canonical Wnt signaling in a spider reveals a non-canonical response of theWnt8-caudal cassette in posterior segmentation |
Karen Sears
Developmental origin and evolution of bats |