Lab Meeting Schedule
Lab meetings are held every Wednesday at 4PM in the first floor seminar, or 3rd floor conference room in the Gamboa Lab. Read more
Paper on mimetic wing perception published!
A paper based on research at the Heliconius Insectaries has confirmed that the butterflies use ultraviolet cues to promote effective mating behavior while maintaining the advantages of mimicry to ward off predators. Read more
Lepinars
We will be presenting bi-weekly Zoom seminars featuring Lepidoptera researchers. Please contact Joana Meier (jm2278@cam.ac.uk), Gabriela Montejo-Kovacevich (mgm49@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 (4PM UK 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 |
| June 7th, 2021 | Kay Lucek (U Basel, Switzerland) | When species meet again – secondary contact zones of Erebia butterflies |
| June 14th, 2021 | Mahul Chakraborty (UC Irvine, USA) | The big and the small of it: Comparing complete, diploid assemblies of vulnerable and common butterfly species exhibiting dramatic genome size variation |
| June 28th, 2021 | Yuttapong Thawornwattana (Harvard U, USA) | Full likelihood analysis of divergence and introgression in the erato-sara group of Heliconius |
| July 12th, 2021 | Erica Westerman (U of Arkansas, USA) | Mechanisms underlying behavioral variation in Heliconius and Bicyclus butterflies |
| Sept 20th, 2021 | Anniina Mattila (U Helsinki, Finland) | Dissecting the ecological, evolutionary, life-history and molecular influencers of cyanogenic chemical defense variation in Heliconius erato |
| Oct 18th, 2021 | Erika Páez (CNRS, Paris, France) | Hard to catch: experimental evidence supports evasive mimicry |
| Nov 1st, 2021 | Stefan Schulz (TU Braunschweiz, Germany) | The scent chemistry of Heliconius |
| Nov 15th, 2021 | Charlotte Wright (Wellcome Sanger Institute, UK) | The evolution of chromosome structure in Lepidoptera |
| Nov 29th, 2021 | Anna Orteu (University of Cambridge, UK) | Evolutionary genomics of wing pattern mimicry in Hypolimnas butterflies |
| Dec 13th, 2021 | Nicolas Chazot (University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden) | TBA |
| Jan 24th, 2022 | Wendy Valencia-Montoya (Harvard University, US) | TBA |
Evolution is surprising!
Congratulations to Carolina Concha, Richard Wallbank, and others for their publication in the Current Biology looking at the repeatability of evolution in co-mimetic wing patterns in Heliconius butterflies.
22 Heliconius Genome Paper Published!
Congratulations to Nate Edelmen and Paul Frandsen for getting the Heliconius 22 Genome Project paper published in Science, and with the cover no less!
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