ZGSA Spring Research Symposium 2018

April 6​th​ 2018

Location:
Beaty Biodiversity Museum (Talk sessions)
Biodiversity Research Centre (Poster Session)

9:30-10:10 Pre-symposium Refreshments and Coffee

Session 1: 10:10-12:00 Chair: James Marchant
10:10 Opening Remarks
10:15 Sam Straus Avilés​ Lab
10:30 Kleptoparasite loads on social spider colonies along an elevation gradient
10:30 Keila Stark O’Connor Lab
10:45 Metacommunity archetypes driving epifaunal community structure in eelgrass
meadows along the BC Coast
10:45 Freek de Haas Otto Lab
11:00 Interesting R- and K-selection dynamics in finite population sizes
11:00 Dr. Matthew Pennell
12:00 Rethinking comparative methods
12:00-12:45 Lunch Break
12:45-13:20 Refreshments and Coffee
Session 2: 13:30 - 14:45 Chair: Ken Thompson
13:30 Emily Lim Harley​ Lab
13:45 Caprellid amphipods (Caprella spp.) are vulnerable to both physiological and
habitat-mediated effects of ocean acidification
13:45 Rhea Storlund Trites Lab
14:00 Steller hearts: An investigation into marine mammal cardiac function and
anatomy
14:00 Le Tam Nhan Nguyen Pante Lab
14:15 Characterization of the nucleoprotein’s nuclear localization signal function during
influenza A virus infection
14:15 Jacelyn Shu Brauner Lab
14:30 Enhanced hemoglobin-O2 unloading in teleosts is sustained after catecholamine
removal
14:30 Luis Camacho Avilés ​Lab
14:45 Ants shape predation rate patterns along elevational gradients in the tropical
Andes
14:45 - 15:20 Refreshment Break
Session 3: 15:30-17:00 Chair: Ailene MacPherson
15:30 Shuang Yang Pante Lab
15:45 The underlying mechanism of a unique nuclear entry pathway used by the
parvovirus minute virus of mice
15:45 ​ Dr. Stilian Louca
16:00 Unraveling bacterial diversification through geological time with massive
phylogenies
16:00 Jordan Hamden Soma Lab
16:15 11-dehydrocorticosterone, a corticosterone metabolite, in mice, rats, and birds
16:15 Matt Osmond Otto Lab
16:30 Predicting the types of mutations that rescue populations from extinction
16:30 Sarah Fortune Trites Lab
16:45 Drones, time-depth recorders and prey sampling reveal complex foraging
behaviour in bowhead whales.
17:00 Emily Gallagher Best Talk Award presentation

BBQ/Beers Social
17:00 - When the cows come home Biodiversity Research Centre

Poster Session
17:00 - 18:00 Biodiversity Research Centre
Aaron Purdy Trites Lab
Rethinking the aerobic dive limit
Ailene MacPherson Otto Lab
Density-dependent selection in finite populations
Francisco Henao Diaz Pennell Lab
Young clades appear to be diversifying faster: meta-analysis of speciation rates reveals
ubiquitous age-dependent effects
Heather Reid Harley Lab
Cold tolerance and winter microhabitat use of an intertidal snail, ​Littorina scutulata
Kaleigh Davis O’Connor Lab
Metabolic scaling of biological nitrogen fixation
Silu Wang​ Irwin Lab
Admixing aggression genes through a moving warbler hybrid zone