2019 SSB Ernst Mayr Symposium at Evolution in Providence, RI

Saturday, June 22nd
Ball A

Time	Presenter	Title
9:28 AM	Awards Committee	Introduction
9:30 AM	Kristina Klaus	Morphological traits and their impact on the historical biogeography in conifers
9:45 AM	Ariadna Morales	Local adaptation and convergent evolution of foraging strategies in the most species-rich genus of bats, Myotis
10:00 AM	Liming Cai	The perfect storm: gene tree estimation error, deep coalescent, and ancient gene flow explain the most recalcitrant ancient angiosperm clade, Malpighiales
10:15 AM	Huw Ogilvie	Distinguishing parameter estimates from model fit when testing Dollo's law and diagnosing gene tree incongruence
10:30 AM	Venelin Mitov	Automatic generation of evolutionary hypotheses using mixed Gaussian phylogenetic models
10:45 - 11:15 AM		Coffee Break
11:15 AM	Elizabeth Miller	Sexual selection does not explain diversity disparities among clades
11:30 AM	Sandra Alvarez-Carretero	Bayesian estimation of species divergence times using correlated quantitative characters
11:45 AM	Kaiya Provost	Comparative genomics reveal modes of differentiation in North American warm desert birds
12:00 PM	Alejandro Damián-Serrano	The Evolution and Diversification of Siphonophore Tentilla
12:15 PM	Megan Smith	Considering the process of speciation while investigating species limits leads to more accurate and biologically relevant species delimitations