Videos

Diversification histories of Afrotropical Bats Bruce Patterson (Negaunee Integrative Research Center, Field Museum of Natural History)

Resolving the rapid evolutionary radiation and species limits of African bent-winged bats Terrence Demos (Negaunee Integrative Research Center, Field Museum of Natural History)

Featured Speaker: Siavash Mirarab (Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, San Diego) The unrealized potential of genome skimming for sample identification

Phylogenomics and Population History in Lowland Neotropical Rivers Caleb McMahan (Gantz Family Collections Center, Field Museum of Natural History)

Accelerating the pace of scientific discovery: Uncovering hidden biodiversity using Machine Learning Matt von Konrat (Gantz Family Collections Center, Field Museum of Natural History), Beth McDonald (NEIU), Francisco Iacobelli (Department of Computer Science, NEIU)

Phylogeography of Artibeus fraterculus (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) in South America Natalia Cortes-Delgado (Department of Biological Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago)

Digitizing Guyana's first digital database for fishes and determining priority waterways for the country Lesley de Souza (Keller Science Action Center, Field Museum of Natural History)

Ancient health and disease in the Andes: A Microbiome analysis of ancient inhabitants from the Peruvian Coast Sloan Williams (Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Chicago) and Ryan Williams (Negaunee Integrative Research Center, Field Museum of Natural History)

The evolution of migratory behavior in birds João Capurucho (Negaunee Integrative Research Center, Field Museum of Natural History)

Prospecting for New Species of Large Mammals in Northern Amazonia Molly McDonough (Department of Biological Sciences, Chicago State University) and Bruce Patterson (Negaunee Integrative Research Center, Field Museum of Natural History)

A ‘Paleoinformatics’ approach: Testing Southern and East African Permo-Triassic terrestrial biogeography and community evolution Pia Viglietti and Ken Angielczyk (Negaunee Integrative Research Center, Field Museum of Natural History)

A RADseq approach to understand species delimitation and biogeography of Cladonia sandstedei (Abbayes) Ahti in the Caribbean Joel Mercado (Negaunee Integrative Research Center, Field Museum of Natural History)

Darwin Core - How do we make it work? Sharon Grant (Information Technology, Field Museum of Natural History)

Of mongooses and pottos: Phylogeography of Guinea-Congolese forest mammals Adam Ferguson (Gantz Family Collections Center, Field Museum of Natural History) and Molly McDonough (Department of Biological Sciences, Chicago State University)

First Horse fly genome and Ultraconserved Elements (UCE) probe-set Maureen Turcatel (Gantz Family Collections Center, Field Museum of Natural History)

A comparative evolutionary analysis of endogenous viruses throughout Insecta Peter Flynn (Committee on Evolutionary Biology, University of Chicago)

Featured Speaker: Erich Jarvis (Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor, The Rockefeller University) The Vertebrate Genomes Project: Sequencing high-quality genomes for a new age of biology

Using megaphylogenies to deconstruct the evolution of an iconic symbiosis Matt Nelsen (Negaunee Integrative Research Center, Field Museum of Natural History)

“Red Queen” or “Red King”? Understanding evolutionary consequences of mutualistic lifestyles" Claudio Ametrano (Negaunee Integrative Research Center, Field Museum of Natural History)

Correlated Evolution Among Egg Shape and Migratory Behavior using a New Algorithm and Software to Measure Egg Shape Valentina Gomez (Department of Biological Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago) and John Bates (Negaunee Integrative Research Center, Field Museum of Natural History)

Sensory evolution in kingfishers: a combined genomic and phenomic approach Chad Eliason and Shannon Hackett (Negaunee Integrative Research Center, Field Museum of Natural History)

Putumayo watershed: making biological and cultural diversity data visible and accessible for conservation action Farah Carrasco-Rueda, Michelle Thompson, Tomomi Suwa, Nigel Pitman, Lesley de Souza, Zachary Kachian (Keller Science Action Center, Field Museum of Natural History)

Population genomics of a reindeer lichen species from North-American lichen woodlands Marta Alonso Garcia (Université Laval)

Population Dynamics and Morphometrics of Urban Brown Rats (Rattus norvegicus vs Squirrels across the Chicagoland Region to understand Urban Ecology and Evolution Noé de la Sancha (Department of Biological Sciences, Chicago State University)

Biogeography of Pitcairnia L’Her in the insular Caribbean Natalia Ruiz Vargas and Roberta Mason-Gamer (Department of Biological Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago)

Genomic insights into the evolutionary history and diversification of the Pyrrhura perlatacoerulescens complex (Aves: Psittaciformes: Arini) Taylor Hains, (Committee on Evolutionary Biology, University of Chicago)

Floristic structure and environmental correlates in the Hengduan Mountains biodiversity hotspot Qin Li (Negaunee Integrative Research Center, Field Museum of Natural History)

Population genomics and leaf reflectance spectroscopy inform fine-scale population structure and demographic history of alpine plants in Interior Alaska (Dryas spp., Rosaceae) Dawson White (Negaunee Integrative Research Center, Field Museum of Natural History)