Heliconius Seminar
While under quarantine we will be presenting bi-weekly Zoom seminars featuring Heliconius researchers. Please contact Joana Meier (jm2278@cam.ac.uk) or Luca Livraghi (miles.livraghi@gmail.com) if you would like to be added to the email list for the talk announcements.
Talks start at 10AM Panama time unless noted otherwise.
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 11 May 2020 | Luca Livraghi (U Cambridge, UK) | The gene cortex controls scale colour identity in Heliconius |
| 25 May 2020 | Joe Hanly (George Washington U, USA) | Investigation of wing pattern mutants in a domesticated population of Heliconius melpomene |
| 8 June 2020 | Kelsey Byers (U Cambridge, UK) | QTL for potential wing and genital pheromone compounds show clustering across the genome |
| June 22, 2020 | Chris Kozak (STRI) | Population genomics of large mimetic radiations |
| July 6th, 2020 | Melanie Brien (U Sheffield / U Cambridge) | The genetics and evolution of structural colour in Heliconius butterflies |
| July 20th, 2020 | Nate Edelman (Harvard, US) | The molecular basis of hybrid female sterility in Heliconius pardalinus subspecies |
| August 3rd, 2020 | Nicol Rueda (Un del Rosario, Colombia) | Importance of environmental variables in the distribution and natural hybridization of Heliconius butterflies. |
| September 7th, 2020 | Wyatt Toure (McGill U, USA / STRI, Panama) | Heliconiini butterflies can learn time-dependent reward associations. |
| September 21st, 2020 | Erika Pinheiro-de- Castro (U. Cambridge, UK) | Phenotypic plasticity in chemical defence allows butterflies to diversify host use strategies |
| October 5th, 2020 | Matteo Rossi (LMU, Munich) | Genetics of visual mate preference in Heliconius butterflies |
| October 19th, 2020 | Gabriela Montejo-Kovacevich (U. Cambridge, UK) | Local adaptation in Heliconius butterflies (beyond mimicry) |
| November 2nd, 2020 | Alexander Hausmann (LMU, Munich) | Heliconius mating behaviours affected by light environment during early stages of divergence |
| November 16th, 2020 | Francesco Cicconardi (U. Bristol) | A Flock of Genomes: New and revised genomic resources for 58 species of Heliconiini |
| November 30th, 2020 | Lucie Quest (U York, UK / LMU, Munich, Germany) | Flight and wing shape in the Heliconiini |
| December 14th, 2020 | James Lewis (U Cornell, US) | Adaptive diversification of red wing color patterns in Heliconius erato |
| January 25th, 2021 | Camille Le Roy (Institute of Systematic, Evolution and Biodiversity, France) | Convergent morphology and divergent phenology: unravelling the coexistence of mimetic Morpho butterfly species |
| February 8th, 2021 | Paul Jay (CNRS, Montpellier, France) | The evolution of supergenes: insight from mimicry polymorphism in Heliconius numata |
| February 22nd, 2021 | Kathy Darragh (U Davis, USA) | Pheromones in Heliconius butterflies: Chemical ecology, genetics and behaviour |
| March 8th, 2021 | Steven van Belleghem (U Puerto Rico) | Selection and isolation define a heterogeneous divergence landscape between hybridizing Heliconius butterflies |
| March 22nd, 2021 | Simon Martin (U Edinburgh, UK) | Formation, reformation and deformation of structural barriers to gene flow in Danaus butterflies |
| April 19th, 2021 | Joe Hanly (George Washington U, USA) | Speciation genomics in North American Colias butterflies |
| May 10th, 2021 | Stephen Montgomery (U Bristol, UK) | Mushroom body expansion in Heliconius butterflies |
| May 17th, 2021 | Brian Counterman (Auburn University, USA) | Genetics of sexually dimorphic UV on Dogface wings |
