Welcome to the website for the inaugural E3B Symposium! This conference will highlight cutting edge ecology, evolution and conservation science being done by NYC-based scientists.
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April 3rd, 2020
8am-6pm
Schiff Family Great Hall at the Bronx Zoo
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Please note that this is a free event for E3B students, postdocs, faculty, and affiliates, as well as for conservation scientists and staff at WCS and with our other affiliate organizations.
Schedule of Events
| 8-9:30 | Coffee & breakfast |
| 9-9:30 | Welcoming remarks |
| 9:30-10:30 | Morning session 1: Speed talks (5 mins) |
| 10:30-10:45 | Break |
| 10:45-11:45 | Morning session 2: 12-minute Presentations |
| 11:45 -1:15 | Lunch: Boxed Lunches – explore the zoo |
| 1:15-2:15 | Afternoon session 1: Speed talks (5 mins) |
| 2:15-2:30 | Break |
| 2:30-3:30 | Afternoon session 2: 12-minute Presentations |
| 3:30-4 | Plenary speaker |
| 4-6 | Happy Hour + Poster Session
(Student Awards Announced!) |
Scheduled Talks:
| Time Start | Presenter | Title: |
| Morning Session 1-Speed Talks | ||
| 9:30 AM | Michael Levin | Data Efficient: Using GBIF Data to Accurately and Rapidly Assess the Conservation Status of Plants |
| 9:35 AM | Evan Eskew | United States wildlife and wildlife product imports from 2000–2014 |
| 9:40 AM | Hannah Dancy | Behavioral responses of captive male tigers (Panthera tigris) to olfactory stimuli at the Bronx Zoo, New York |
| 9:45 AM | Jason Hagani | Livestock Depredation in the United States: Conflict, Mitigation Strategies, and Future Directions |
| 9:50 AM | Anika Staccone | Nutrient recycling in plants and the role of litter diffusion |
| 9:55 AM | Ivan Monagan | Title TBA |
| 10:00 AM | Jasmina Dzurlic | Genetic mapping of sex determination in Amaranthus |
| 10:05 AM | Henry Landis | A model for hybridization as a driver of evolution in oaks and amaranth |
| 10:10 AM | Emily Chou (WCS) | TBA |
| 10:15 AM | Faculty or WCS | TBA |
| 10:20 AM | Questions | |
| Break
10:30 – 10:45 AM |
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| Morning Session 2 | ||
| 10:45 AM | Meredith VanAcker | Integrating host movement to predict urban tick-borne disease risk |
| 10:57 AM | Carlos Maya-Lastra | Dobzhansky-Muller incompatibilities do not accumulate faster than linearly |
| 11:09 AM | Sarah Trabue | What’s the buzz? Potential impacts of anthropogenic noise on the foraging activity of bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) in the New York Bight |
| 11:21 AM | Jo Jensen | Lidar-derived tree age structure suggests recent regeneration failure at the Alaskan Forest tundra ecotone |
| 11:33 AM | Steven Davis | Insights into insect scale development and photonic crystal formation |
| Lunch
11:45 AM – 1:15 PM |
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| Afternoon Session 1 | ||
| 1:15 PM | Faculty or WCS | TBA |
| 1:20 PM | Pedro Ribeiro Piffer | Forest transitions in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest: has agricultural intensification ceded way to forest regeneration in this endangered biome? |
| 1:25 PM | Jay Schoen | Follow the Money: Is there a mismatch between conservation threats and solutions? |
| 1:30 PM | WCS | TBA |
| 1:35 PM | Maria Fernandez | Human adaptive behavior and landscape configuration affects human-tick interactions. |
| 1:40 PM | Shailee Shah | Cooperative breeding species dispersal |
| 1:45 PM | Renata Mazzei | Does habitat use influence social behaviour and cognition in marine cleaning gobies? |
| 1:50 PM | Yiru Cheng | Emergence of complex society in a cooperatively breeding bird |
| 1:55 PM | Jared Meek | Mountain phylogeography and conservation: a case study in Pedicularis (Orobanchaceae) |
| 2:00 PM | Deren Eaton | Applying a spatial multi-species coalescent |
| 2:05-2:15PM | Questions | |
| Break
2:15 – 2:30 PM |
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| Afternoon Session 2 | ||
| 2:30 PM | Lucas Rocha | Genomics of parallel divergence and local adaptation in two North American woodpeckers |
| 2:42 PM | Rachel Donabedian | Factors influencing social rank acquisition in juvenile blue monkeys |
| 2:54 PM | Patrick McKenzie | Inferring historical introgression using machine learning on phylogenetic invariants |
| 3:06 PM | Howard Rosenbaum | TBA |
| 3:18 PM | Palani Akana | How does a tree’s rooting distribution influence its ability to acquire nutrients? |
| Plenary Speaker
3:30 – 4:00 PM |
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| Poster Session 1 | ||
| 4:00 PM | Emily Weisenberger | Enter Coyote, Stage Left: Community Assemblages in New York City Parks and the Influence of Coyotes |
| 4:00 PM | Alexa Helms | How does Robinia pseduoacacia influence the growth of neighboring trees? |
| 4:00 PM | Holly Fuong | How caller relevance influences blue monkey (Cercopithecus mitis) responses to conspecific and heterospecific alarm calls |
| 4:00 PM | Jazlynn Hall | Hurricane-induced rainfall is a stronger predictor of tropical forest damage in Puerto Rico than maximum wind speeds |
| 4:00 PM | Natalie Niepoth | An integrative genetic approach to identify adrenal features that contribute to the evolution of exploratory behavior in Peromyscus mice |
| 4:00 PM | Hiroki Tomida | The genetic pollution of Japanese rice fish |
| 4:00 PM | Sandra Hoffberg | The recent spread of herbicide resistance via introgression in Amaranthus |
| Poster Session 2 | ||
| 5:00 PM | Roi Ankori-Karlinsky | Compound Disturbance Effects in a Wet Tropical Forest |
| 5:00 PM | Shana Caro | Decision-making efficiency in wild great tits, with real world consequences |
| 5:00 PM | Isobel Mifsud | Nitrogen fixation in xylophagous beetle larvae |
| 5:00 PM | Amanda Johnston | Effects of Positive Reinforcement Training on Chimpanzee Cortisol Concentration |
| 5:00 PM | Stephanie Schmiege | Physiological traits of shade tolerance determine conifer survival in a tropical Vietnamese forest |
| 5:00 PM | JianJun Jin | Phylogeny and plastome evolution of the legume family (Leguminosae) |
