2026
Genetics Society of America’s 67th Annual Drosophila Research Conference, Chicago, Illinois
Poster: Koury, S. Rivera Rincon, N., Shiran, M., Stevison, L. Meiotic recombination is robust to hypoxic conditions in Drosophila melanogaster.
Poster: Haynes, C., Shiran, M., McCann, L., Koury, S., Stevison, L. Impact of caloric density on meiotic recombination rate.
Poster: Shiran, M., Haynes, C., McCann, L., Koury, S. Hill, L., Howard, H., Rivera Rincon, N., Stevison, L. Dietary stress reveals G x E interactions in recombination rate plasticity.
Departmental Seminar, Department of Biological Sciences, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama
Talk: Koury, S. Perturbation analysis of crossover patterning in Drosophila meiosis
2025
Southeastern Population Ecology and Evolutionary Genetics Annual Meeting, Townsend, Tennessee
Poster: Koury, S., Rivera Rincon, N., Schneider, C., Shiran, M., Stevison, L. The impact of hypoxia on meiotic recombination rate in Drosophila melanogaster.
Poster: Shiran, M., Haynes, C., McCann, L., Koury, S., Hill, L., Howard, H., Rivera Rincon, N., Stevison, L. G x E in recombination plasticity in Drosophila.
Online Presentation Gokcumen Lab Group, University of Buffalo, Buffalo, New York
Talk: Koury, S. Crossover patterning mechanisms in Drosophila melanogaster meiosis
2024
Departmental Seminar, Department of Biological Sciences, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama
Talk: Koury, S. Stochastic processes and causal inference in meiosis evolution
3rd Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Talk: Koury, S., Stevison, L. Global increase of recombination compensates for local crossover suppression but does not mitigate fitness decline: a meta-analysis.
Department of Biological Sciences Retreat, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama
Talk: Koury, S. How genome rearrangements suppress recombination
Genetics Society of America’s The Allied Genetics Conference, National Harbor, Maryland
Poster: Koury, S. How heterozygous chromosomal inversions suppress recombination in Drosophila melanogaster.
Auburn University Research Symposium, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama
Talk: Koury, S. A maximum likelihood approach for a stochastic process along the chromosome axis
2023
In person Interview Seminar, Stevison Lab Group, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama
Talk: Koury, S. How chromosomal inversions suppress recombination: processes for meiotic event patterning
2021
Society for the Study of Evolution Annual Conference, Virtual Meeting
Talk: Koury, S., Phadnis, N. Germline stem cell mitotic exchange causes rare recombinant chr. in Drosophila pseudoobscura altering inference of natural selection.
Talk: Taggart, G., Koury, S., Phadnis, N. Cryptic suppression of Sex Ratio system reveals intragenomic conflict in Drosophila pseudoobscura.
Society of Molecular Biology and Evolution Annual Conference, Virtual Meeting
Talk: Koury, S. Interference hypothesis for recombination suppression in chromosomal inversion heterozygotes: A formal genetics analysis in D. melanogaster.
Genetics Society of America Annual Drosophila Research Conference, Virtual Meeting
Poster: Koury, S., Taggart, G., Phadnis, N. Cryptic suppression reveals intragenomic conflict in the Sex Ratio system of Drosophila pseudoobscura.
Young Investigator Science Retreat, Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, Missouri
Talk: Koury, S. Resolving the “Ancient Gene Drive Paradox” in Drosophila pseudoobscura
2020
Online Interview Seminar, Hawley Lab Group Meeting, Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, Missouri
Talk: Koury, S. An integrative approach to two meiotic drive systems in Drosophila pseudoobscura
University of Utah / Huntsman Cancer Institute / School of Medicine Fly Research Group, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
Talk: Koury, S. Selfish sex chromosomes and the evolutionary arms race in Drosophila pseudoobscura
Great Plains Genetic Conflict Meeting, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas
Talk: Koury, S. Superscreen for a supergene, chemical mutagenesis of a selfish sex chromosome in Drosophila pseudoobscura.
2019
Federation of American Sciences for Experimental Biology Conference, Genetic Recombination and Genomic Rearrangement, Steamboat Springs, Colorado
Poster: Koury, S. Interference hypothesis for crossover suppression by inversions.
Annual Chromosome Pairing Conference, Cleveland, Ohio
Talk: Koury, S. Modifier theory for the evolution of obligate somatic pairing
Genetics Society of America Annual Drosophila Research Conference, Dallas, Texas
Poster: Koury, S. Meiotic drive and the survival probability of new inversions
2018
Annual Chromosome Pairing Conference, Sudbury, Ontario
Talk: Koury, S. The evolution of transvection
Society of Molecular Biology and Evolution Satellite Meeting, Deer Valley, Utah
Poster: Koury, S. Metabolic engineering Drosophila lifespan extension with complex epistasis at the glucose 6-phosphate branchpoint.
2017
Society for the Study of Evolution Annual Conference, Portland, Oregon
Talk: Koury, S.* Direct evidence that metabolic genes underlie temperate adaptation of Drosophila melanogaster life history
* Presented as part of the W. D. Hamilton Award for Outstanding Graduate Student Presentation
In person Interview Seminar, Department of Biology, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York
Talk: Koury, S. Experimental population genetics of recombination and meiotic drive in Drosophila melanogaster
In person Interview Seminar, School of Biological Sciences, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
Talk: Koury, S. Experimental population genetics of recombination and meiotic drive in Drosophila melanogaster
Department of Ecology and Evolution Retreat, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York
Talk: Koury, S. Metabolic control of lifespan at the glucose-6-phosphate branchpoint
2016
Society for the Study of Evolution Annual Conference, Austin, Texas
Talk: Koury, S. The evolution of serially inverted chromosomes
Poster: Koury, S. Metabolic traits controlling temperate adaptation of Drosophila melanogaster life history
2014
Society for the Study of Evolution Annual Conference, Raleigh, North Carolina
Talk: Koury, S. and Mulqueen, R. Fight fire with fire: Redirected drive in the D. affinis subgroup
Poster: Koury, S. Recombination load caused by multiple chromosome rearrangements
Poster: Mulqueen, R., Koury, S. Quantitative genetics of an evolutionary innovation and diagnostic trait in the Drosophila affinis subgroup
Poster: Abrams, A., Mulqueen, R., Koury, S. Characterization of newly discovered interspecific hybrids in the Drosophila affinis subgroup
2013
Statistical and Quantitative Genetics Conference, Seattle, Washington
Poster: Koury, S., Brud, E., Eanes, W.F. Polygenic causes and consequences of incomplete inbreeding in the Drosophila melanogaster Genetic Reference Panel.
Society of Molecular Biology and Evolution Annual Conference, Chicago, Illinois
Talk: Koury, S., Brud, E., Eanes, W.F. Balancing selection in the Drosophila melanogaster Genetic Reference Panel maintains lethals, steriles, segregation distorters, and chromosomal inversions in heterozygous state.
Society for the Study of Evolution Annual Conference, Snowbird, Utah
Talk: Koury, S., Brud, E., Eanes, W.F. Naturally occurring lethals, steriles, and segregation distorters are maintained in balanced systems established by chromosomal inversions during inbreeding of Drosophila melanogaster Genetic Reference Panel lines.
Poster: Koury, S. The genetic architecture of Drosophila melanogaster eye pigmentation metabolic control and molecular evolution in the kynurenine pathway.
Department of Ecology and Evolution Retreat, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York
Talk: Koury, S. Incomplete inbreeding due to balanced lethal systems established by chromosomal inversions