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New Year in London Jan 2002

Recent Presentations




Honorary lectures:

The Albert L. Tester Lecture, University of Hawaii, HI (2010)

The Jack & Pat Bryan Distinguished Lecture, Syracuse University (2010)

The Storer Foundation Lecture, University of California-Davis, CA (2010)

The John Tyler Bonner Lecture, Princeton University, NJ (2009)

The John Maynard Smith Award Lecture, University of Aahrus, Denmark (2001).

    The Theodosius Dobzhansky Award Lecture, University of Tennessee, TN, USA (2001).

     

Keynotes, plenaries, invited symposia:

2011

"Origin of the fittest: cycles of developmental emergence and genetic determination in evolution". Invited speaker for symposium “Evolutionary implications of non-genetic inheritance”. XIII Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology, Tuebingen, Germany.

 

2010

"Stress and the origin of novelty in evolution". International symposium "Stress and Evolution", Universität Münster, Münster, Germany.

"Integration with feather growth networks facilitate genetic assimilation of novel carotenoid compounds". Symposium "Eco-Devo: Adaptation in Real Time", European EvoDevo Meeting, Paris, France

“Epigenetic regulation of development links adaption and diversification of skeletal phenotypes”. Symposium: "Anatomical variation: genetic, developmental, and comparative perspectives" (with R. L. Young). Annual Meeting of American Association of Anatomists, Anaheim, CA.

“Colorful phenotypes of colorless genotypes: Origin and evolution of diet-derived pigmentation in animals". 2010 Packard Fellows Meeting, Monterey, CA

2009

Plenary address. "New perspectives in evolutionary ornithology". 79th Annual meeting of the Cooper Ornithological Society, USA

"Parental effects in development and evolution". Symposium "Nuture goes molecular: Epigenetic mechanisms and the innate/acquired distinction". (with T. Uller). The 2009 meeting of the International Society for History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology. Brisbane, Australia.

 

2008

Keynote address. "Maternal effects as generators of evolutionary change". 2nd Workshop in Evolutionary Biology, University of Wollongong, Australia.

"Developmental evolution of mating strategies indicated by diet-dependent color displays". Symposium: "Pathways to Novelty and Diversity: The Causes and Consequences of Polyphenism". 45th Meeting of ABS, Snowbird, US.

"Developmental evolution of sexual displays: model and a test of feather growth and pigmentation". XX Reunion Packard Fellows Meeting, Park City, US.

"Developmental accommodation of muscle activity in the mammalian mandible". Symposium: "Canalization, Robustness, and Developmental Stability". 2nd European Evolutionary Developmental Biology Meeting, Ghent, Belgium (with R. L. Young).

"Evolvability and robustness in color displays: Bridging the gap between theory and data." Conference "Phenotypic and Developmental Plasticity", Kerala, India

2007

"Developmental evolution of mating strategies indicated by diet-derived color displays". Fourth Kristineberg Symposium “Mating System Evolution”, The Wenner-Gren Foundation, Kristineberg Marine Research Station, Sweden.

"Origin and evolution of novel phenotypes: From environmental induction to genetic inheritance in color displays". Symposium: "Ecological dimorphisms in vertebrates: proximate and ultimate causes". 2007 Meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, Phoenix, US.

"Developmental evolution of recurring modules and generation of organismal diversity". XIX Annual Packard Fellows Meeting, Monterey Bay, CA, US.

"Developmental evolution of BMPs: From postnatal epigenetic remodeling to adaptive genetic divergence". Symposium: "Ecological dimorphisms in vertebrates: proximate and ultimate causes". 2007 Meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, Phoenix, US.

"Darwinism in the 21st century: Beyond the Modern Synthesis". The International Society for History, Philosophy, & Social Studies of Biology. The ESRC Centre for Genomics in Society Exeter, UK.

2006

"Generation and evolution of animal color diversity: Reconciling within-species continuity with species divergence". XVIII Annual Packard Fellows Meeting, Monterey Bay, US.

"Resolution of a trade-off between current reproduction and future sexual ornamentation: A novel physiological mechanism". Symposium: "Evolutionary and Ecological Perspectives of Sexual Selection". IV North American Ornithological Conference, Veracruz, Mexico.

"Colorful phenotypes of colorless genotypes: Towards a new evolutionary synthesis of animal color displays". Workshop "Integrated studies of genetic networks: A new evolutionary synthesis" National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, US.

2005

"Rapid evolution of an invasive species". Special Symposium “Evolution on ecological time scales". 2005 Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting & the International Congress of Ecology, Montreal, Canada.

"Mycoplasmal conjunctivitis: factors influencing disease expression". Symposium "Parasite effects on birds on individual and population levels". 123rd Stated Meeting of the American Ornithologists' Union, Santa Barbara, US.

Plenary. "Maternal inheritance and rapid evolution of sexual size dimorphism: Passive effects or active strategies?" Conference "The evolution of sexual size dimorphism". The Centro Stefano Franscini Conference Center on Monte Verità, Locarno, Switzerland.

"Evolution as the control of development by ecology": Passive maternal effects and the evolution of sexual dimorphism. NSF (USA)/NSERC (Canada)/ESF (EU) Conference: "Maternal Effects". Seattle, US.

2004

    "Evolution of plasticity in parental strategies: An endocrinological perspective." VIII International Congress on Avian Endocrinology, Phoenix, US.

    "Integration and inheritance of adaptive environmental effects: an example with foraging apparatus of shrews". Symposium: "A mechanistic approach to evolutionary developmental biology".International Congress of Vertebrate Morphology, US.

    "Evolution of ontogeny of sexual dimorphism in a bird: proximate and ultimate mechanisms". American Society of Naturalists Vice-Presidential Symposium. SSE/ASN/SSB Meeting, Fort Collins, US.

    "Evolutionary significance of stress-induced variation in morphology: Example with Soricid shrews". International Symposium on Systematics & Phylogeography of Mammals in Eastern Asia, Taiwan. (with K.R. Foresman).

    "Adaptation and constraints in avian reproduction: integrating ecology and endocrinology". Conference “Integration of ecology and endocrinology” sponsored by European Science Foundation, National Science Foundation and the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences, Wageningen, The Netherlands.

2003

    "Evolution of sexual size dimorphism: Ontogenetic perspective". Invited symposium talk at IX Congress of the European Society of Evolutionary Biology, Leeds, United Kingdom.

    "Evolutionary ecology of alternative life history strategies". Invited symposium talk at XXVIII International Ethological Conference, Florianópolis, Brazil.

2002

    "Evolution of multiple signals in birds: Functional and developmental integration in carotenoid plumage ornaments". Symposium "Signaling and Speciation". XXIII International Ornithological Congress, Beijing, China.

    "Evolution of developmental and functional integration in shrew mandibles". The Second International Symposium on Advances in the Biology of Shrews. Carnegie Museum of Natural History, US. (with K.R. Foresman).

    Plenary lecture. "Mothers against population extinction: A success story of a North American finch". Edward Grey Institute of Ornithology Conference, “Ornithology and Evolutionary Biology” University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.

2001

    "Developmental and functional integration of sexual plumage colouration in a passerine bird". Invited talk for symposium “Evolution and development of color patterns”. VIII Congress of the European Society of Evolutionary Biology, Aahrus, Denmark.

    "Rapid divergence in sexual dimorphism in natural bird populations: The role of ontogenetic variation and parental effects". Young Insvestigators’ Symposium. 2001 ASN/SSE Meetings, Knoxville, TN, USA

    "Selection on integration of sexual traits and reproductive behaviors". Symposium “New perspectives in evolution of sexual traits: Selection on integration of sexual traits and sexual behaviors” 2001 American Ornithologists’ Union Meeting, Seattle, US

    "Causes and consequences of individual variation in dispersal and settlement decisions: An example with nesting habitat sampling". Symposium "Individual variation in dispersal behavior". 37th Annual Meeting of the Animal Behavior Society (2000), Atlanta, US

    "Sexual dimorphism in colour in relation to phylogeny and ecology. Symposium "Bird Coloration: mechanisms, functions, and evolution". XXII International Ornithological Congress (1998), Durban, South Africa.


 


University seminars (2009-2000):

    Syracuse University, Department of Biology, Graduate Students Invitation

    University of California-Davis, Department of Evolution & Ecology

    Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Dept. Biological Sciences

    University of Michigan, Department Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

    Princeton University, Department Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Graduate Students Invitation

    Florida State University, Department of Biological Science, (2 seminars)

    Michigan State University, Ecology, Evolutionary Biology & Behavior Program

    University of Kentucky, Department of Biology, Graduate Students Invitation

    Yale University, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

    University of Missouri-St. Louis, Department of Biology, Graduate Students Invitation

    University of Texas, Austin, Section of Integrative Biology

    Harvard University, Department of Organismic & Evolutionary Biology

    Dartmouth College Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate Students Invitation

    University of Hawaii, Department of Zoology

    Iowa State University, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (2 seminars)

    Washington State University, School of Biological Sciences

    University of Oregon, Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

    University of Arizona, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

    Uppsala University, Department of Ecology and Evolution, Sweden

    University of Gothenburg, Department of Animal Ecology, Sweden

    University of California-Irvine, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

    University of Tennessee, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

    University of Illinois, Evolution and Ecology, Graduate Students Invitation

    University of South Carolina, EEOB Program

    Indiana University, Department of Biology

    Simon Fraser University, Department of Biol. Sciences, Canada

    Universitaet Zuerich-Irchel, Zuerich, Switzerland

    Max-Planck Institute for Ornithology, Andechs, Germany

    University of Texas-Austin, Integrative Biology

    New Mexico State University, Department of Biology

    Oxford University, EGI, Oxford, UK

    University of Oslo, Zool. Museum, Norway

    Florida State University, Department of Biological Sciences

    University of Nevada, Department of Biology

    University of Chicago, Department of Evolutionary Biology (2 seminars)

    University of Pennsylvania, Department of Biology

    McGill University, Department of Biology, Canada

    University of Wisconsin, Department of Biology

    University of Arizona, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

    University of California-Davis, Center for Population Biology

    University of California-Riverside, Department of Biology

    University of Montana, Wildlife Program, Advanced Population Genetics Series

    University of California- San Diego, Department of Biology

    University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Department of Biological Sciences, (2 Seminars)

    Auburn University, Department of Zoology, (2 Seminars)

    Point Reyes Bird Observatory, San Francisco

    University of Montana, OBE Seminar Series

    University of Georgia, Department of Genetics

    Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology




Contributed presentations (selected, last 4 years):

2010

Facilitated developmental variation reconciles adaptation and evolutionary diversification. 2010 North American Ornithological Conference, San Diego, CA

2008

Lines of least resistance or lines of most recurrence? Evolution of covariance structure during population establishment. (with K.P.Oh). Evolution 2008 Meeting, St. Paul, MN

Evolution of adaptation and mate choice: Parental relatedness affects expression of phenotypic variance in a natural population. (with K.P. Oh). Evolution 2008 Meeting, St. Paul, MN

Evolution on a local scale: Developmental, functional, and genetic bases of divergence in bill form and associated changes in song structure between adjacent habitats. (with R. L. Young, K. P. Oh, C.Addison). 2008 North American Ornithological Conference, Portland, OR

Developmental evolution of plumage ornamentation: Relative contribution of feather growth and pigmentation. (with E. Landeen). XII ISBE Congress, Ithaca, NY

Foraging strategy in soricid shrews: a model for behavioral stress response. (with Sweeney, M.J. and R.L.Young). Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, San Antonio, TX

2007

The ontogeny of mate preferences: does juvenile experience matter?  125th Stated Meeting of the American Ornithologists’ Union, Laramie, WY (with K. P. Oh).

Developmental mechanisms and evolutionary consequences of plasticity: an example with foraging morphology of shrews. International Conference: Phenotypic and Developmental Plasticity, Kerala, India. (with R. L. Young)

 

2006

Evolution of maternal effects: from environmental induction to genetic accommodation. Joint conference of the Society for the Study of Evolution, the Society of Systematic Biologists, and the American Society of Naturalists, Stony Brook , NY.

Functional redundancy enables morphological and ecological versatility in shrews (with R.L. Young). Joint conference of the Society for the Study of Evolution, the Society of Systematic Biologists, and the American Society of Naturalists, Stony Brook , NY.

Evolution of adaptive mate choice in relation to age-dependent reproductive strategies. (with K.P. Oh). IV North American Ornithological Conference, Veracruz, Mexico.

 

2005

Evolution of condition-dependence in sexual ornamentation: A novel perspective. 123rd Stated Meeting of the American Ornithologists' Union, Santa Barbara, CA

Sex-specific oocyte competition as a constraint on sex-ratio adjustment. (with K.P. Oh) 123rd Stated Meeting of the American Ornithologists' Union, Santa Barbara, CA.

Evolution of an environmentally directed trait: Comparative morphology of the shrew mandible. (with R.L. Young). Joint conference of the Society for the Study of Evolution, the Society of Systematic Biologists, and the American Society of Naturalists, Fairbanks, AK.

The evolution of context-dependent biparental investment strategies: Cooperation or conflict? (with K.P. Oh) 123rd Stated Meeting of the American Ornithologists' Union, Santa Barbara, CA.

Condition-dependent genetic complementarity in mate choice. (with K.P. Oh). Joint conference of the Society for the Study of Evolution, the Society of Systematic Biologists, and the American Society of Naturalists, Fairbanks, AK.

Fitness consequences of differential reproductive allocation in relation to sexual ornament elaboration in a passerine bird. (with K.P. Oh). 2005 Meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, San Diego CA

Variation in mandible musculature in relation to interspecific variation in patterns of morphological integration in shrews. (with R.L. Young). 2005 Meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, San Diego CA

2004

    Mechanisms behind maternal favoritism in a passerine bird: Rate and duration of yolk development in relation to embryo sex and laying order. (with R.L. Young). Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology. New Orleans, LA

    Evolution of morphological integration: weak interspecific concordance of developmental and functional integration in the shrew mandible. (with R. L. Young). Joint meeting of the Society for the Study of Evolution and American Society of Naturalists, Fort Collins, CO, USA

    Evolutionary consequences of integration in the shrew mandible (with R. L. Young). 2004 International Congress of Vertebrate Morphologists, US.

    Is there someone for everyone? Evolutionary consequences of genetic complementarity in mate choice in a passerine bird. (with K. P. Oh). Society for the Study of Evolution and American Naturalists' Society Meeting, Fort Collins, CO

    Mate choice for genetic complementarity in a passerine bird. (with K.P. Oh). 122nd Stated Meeting of the American Ornithologists' Union and Annual Meeting of the Society of Canadian Ornithologists, Quebec, QC

    Evolution and ontogeny of conditional mating tactics in the house finch. 122nd Stated Meeting of the American Ornithologists' Union, Quebéc City, QC, Canada

2003

    Context-dependent honesty: Developmental plasticity in sexual ornamentation in a passerine bird. Joint Meeting of the Society for the Study of Evolution, American Society of Naturalists & Society of Systematic Biology. California State University, Chico.

    Evolution of maternal effects: Allocation of nutrients and antioxidants in relation to egg-laying order in a passerine bird. (with R. Mui). Joint Meeting of the Society for the Study of Evolution, American Society of Naturalists & Society of Systematic Biology. California State University, Chico.

    Ecological gradient of sexual selection: Elevation and song complexity in passerine birds (with E.C. Snell-Rood). Joint Meeting of the SSE, ASN, & SSB. California State University, Chico.

    Complexity and integration in sexual displays: an example with carotenoid and melanin ornaments (with R.L. Young). Joint Meeting of the SSE, ASN, & SSB. California State University, Chico.

    Plasticity in development of sexual advertisement in a passerine bird (with R.A. Duckworth). 121st Stated Meeting of the American Ornithologists' Union, University of Illinois-Champaign-Urbana, Illinois.

    Elevation and song complexity in Cardueline finches (with E.C. Snell-Rood). 121st Stated Meeting of the American Ornithologists' Union, University of Illinois-Champaign-Urbana, Illinois.


 

 

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