This symposium includes a series of panel discussions on a theme chosen to help women navigate the process of moving from their post-graduate work into a satisfying career. Due to a wide variety of factors (biological and sociological), academic women, particularly in the sciences, tend to find the transition from their post-graduate work to a career a difficult one to navigate. As a consequence, women tend to be less well represented in careers in the sciences. Our symposium is designed to give women the tools and necessary support system with the ultimate goal of addressing this gap.
Wanuskewin Heritage Park on the edge of Saskatoon preserves a patch of native grassland and one of the most important archaeological sites on the Canadian Prairies. Walk across a grassland and valley that has seen more than 6000 years of human habitation and visit a medicine wheel, tipi rings, and bison kill sites.
Thursday May 21, 2015 13:00 - 17:00 CST
Wanuskewin Heritage ParkRegistration Desk (Geology Atrium, University of Saskatchewan)
The tour of the PGRC facility, led by Dr. Yong-Bi Fu, will provide a brief history of Canadian germplasm conservation efforts, a visit to the secure Canadian seed bank storage vaults, a first-hand view of the breadth of diversity within the collection, and more importantly, an appreciation of Canadian agricultural biodiversity.
8:00 - Batallas R and Evenden ML. 'Semiochemical feeding attractants as a potential tool to monitor cutworm moths (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) diversity in agricultural ecosystems'
8:15 - Frei B, Bennett EM, and Kerr JT. 'Conserving biodiversity in Canada's agro-ecosystems: are we forest-focused and forgetting farmland?'
8:30 - Frier SD, Somers CM, and Sheffield CS. 'Bumble bees do it better: the importance of native bees to the pollination of Haskap crops.'
8:45 - Galpern P, Kerr JT, and Pindar A. 'Neonics and bumble bees: evidence from a continental data set'
9:00 - Galuschik NE and Baulch HM. 'Constructed agricultural dams: The good, the bad, the unexpected'
9:15 - Wijesinghe MAK, Germida JJ, and Walley FL. 'Plant- associated Bacterial Communities vary with Host Crop, Habitat, and Soil Characteristics but not with AM Inoculation'
9:30 - Stanton RL, Clark RG, and Morrissey CA. 'Agricultural landscape composition influences tree swallow (Tachycineta bicolor) foraging strategy, adult body condition, and return rates'
9:45 - Levesque D, Lamb EG and Henderson D. 'The use of riparian health assessments to evaluate cumulative anthropogenic effects to wetland habitats in the prairie pothole region of Saskatchewan'
8:00 - Simpson G. 'Patterns of ecological response to rapid environmental change as observed in palaeoecological data'
8:15 - Srivastava DS, MacDonald AAM, Marino NAC, Trczinski MK, and the Bromeliad Working Group. 'Geographical contingency in the resistance of aquatic food webs to precipitation change'
8:30 - Hamilton JA, Runcie D, Anacker B, Korves T, and Schmitt J. 'Testing the climate pre-adaptation hypothesis: a proof of concept using Arabidopsis thaliana'
8:45 - Hargreaves A, Bailey S, and Laird R. 'Dispersal evolution at range limits during climate change: A simulation model'
9:00 - Hendry A. 'Spatiotemporal variation in contemporary Darwin’s finches: implications for adaptive radiation'
9:15 - Bateman AW, Neubert M, Krkosek M, and Lewis M. 'Generational spreading speed and the dynamics of population range expansion'
9:30 - Johnson KM and Arcese P. 'Competition and community change in insular populations'
9:45 - Vamosi SM, Redick RS, and Kulbaba MW. 'Species invasions: what do we learn by reconstructing historical events?'
8:00 - Leavitt PR. 'Unique and Interactive Effects of Climate on Lakes of the Northern Great Plains on Scales from Seasons to Millennia'
8:15 - Kharouba HM and Yang LH. 'Disentangling the direct and indirect effects of temperature on the monarch-milkweed interaction'
8:30 - Kleynhans EJ, Reich PB, Otto SP, and Vellend M. 'Keeping up with the neighbours: How plant community composition impacts response to elevated nitrogen and CO2'
8:45 - Mantyka-Pringle CS, Viscontie P, Di Marco M, Martin TG, Rondinini C, and Rhodes JR. 'Climate change modifies risk of global biodiversity loss due to land-cover change'
9:00 - Pither J, Pickles BJ, Williams JW, Ordonez A, and Simard S. 'Ectomycorrhizal fungi and post-glacial range expansion of North American tree genera'
9:15 - Sniderhan A and Baltzer J. 'The ‘browning’ of black spruce: changes in growth dynamics within a discontinuous permafrost peatland'
9:30 - Walker XJ and Johnstone JF. 'Drought stress in northern boreal forests signals decreased resilience to fire'
9:45 - Wallace CA, Robertson C, Marsh P, and Baltzer JL. 'Patch patterns: Drivers of a low-arctic shrub mosaic'
8:00 - Champagne E, Tremblay JP, and Côté SD. 'Does spatial scale influence the associational effects of neighbor plants on herbivory? Insights from a meta-analysis'
8:15 - Chen W, Anstett DN, and Johnson MTJ. 'Latitudinal gradient of Acanthoscelidius acephalus and Spodoptera exigua performance on Oenothera biennis'
8:30 - Conway AJ and Johnstone JF. 'Effects of mammalian herbivores on tree growth in early post-fire succession forests'
8:45 - Ellis NM and Leroux S. 'Effects of introduced moose and human and natural disturbances on plant litter decomposition in Newfoundland, Canada'
9:00 - Santangelo J and Kotanen P. 'Fungal endophytes of red fescue (Festuca rubra) increase host survival but reduce plant tolerance to simulated herbivory'
9:15 - Skaien CL and Arcese P. 'Spatial Heterogeneity in Selection Pressure Exerted by Ungulate Herbivores on the Morphology and Life History of Plectritis congesta'
9:30 - Holmes GD, Laird R, and DeClerck-Floate R. 'Impact of a leaf-galling wasp and nitrogen on an invasive plant species'
9:45 - Fenton M, Yack J, and Reid M. 'Grumbling trees and listening bark beetles: use of acoustic cues in habitat choice by mountain pine beetles'
10:30 - Ibeh N and Aris-Brosou S. 'Episodic positive selection in the evolution of the Ebola virus genome'
10:45 - Longley AA, Kotanen P, and Chandi G. 'Interactions between the bacterial pathogen Pseudomonas syringae and the invasive plant Cirsium arvense (Canada thistle)'
11:00 - Porty A, Jardine C, Menzies P, Jones-Bitton A, Mykytczuk N, and Schulte-Hostedde A. 'Investigating the Ecology of Coxiella burnetii at the Livestock - Wildlife Interface'
11:15 - Nshogozabahizi JC and Aris-Brosou S. 'Evolution by epistasis in Influenza'
11:30 - Dench JM, Aris-Brosou S, and Kassen R. 'Epistasis detection through correlated evolution of SNPs: in silico and in vitro validation using Pseudomonas aeruginosa from cystic fibrosis patients'
10:30 - Jefferson DM, Hobson KA, Demuth BS, Ferrari MCO, and Chivers DP. 'Frugal cannibals: the conditional benefits of cannibalism for larval wood frogs (Lithobates sylvaticus)'
10:45 - Robinson BW and Black K. 'Adaptive plasticity in the self-amputation (autotomy) of lamellae by larval damselflies under variable risk of predation'
11:00 - Astudillo-Clavijo V, Arbour JH, and López-Fernández H. 'Adaptive diversification of locomotor morphology in Neotropical cichlids'
11:15 - McCauley SJ, Hammond JI, and Mabry KE. 'Environmental warming during development affects phenology and morphology in an aquatic insect (Odonata)'
11:30 - Van Wyngaarden M, Snelgrove PVR, DiBacco C, Hamilton LC, Rodríguez-Ezpeleta N, and Bradbury IR. 'Population connectivity and environmental drivers of adaptation in the sea scallop, Placopecten magellanicus'
11:45 - Henriques-Silva R, Pinel-Alloul B, and Peres-Neto PR. 'Reproductive strategies and their effect on macroecological patterns: the trade-off between dispersal and local adaptation in zooplankton communities'
10:30 - Blanchet G. 'A general framework to model ecological communities that accounts for species association and estimates trait-environment relationships'
10:45 - Capmourteres V and Anand M. 'Selecting multi-scale indicators to assess ecological functions in complex systems'
11:00 - Collins NC and Zych AR. 'Managing false discovery rates in ecology and evolutionary biology'
11:15 - Heard SB. '400 years of the reproducibility "crisis"'
11:30 - Maillet J and Laroque CP. 'Watching Trees Grow: The Use of Intra-Annual Measures of Radial-Growth in Dendroclimatological Studies'
11:45 - Walker SC, Blanchet FG and Bolker BM. 'Generalised linear mixed models for community ecologists: integrating model-based ordination with phylogenetic and spatial correlations'
Plenary Lecture by Angela Moles "Diversifying daisies: rapid evolution in introduced species is common, and so substantial that it may already have generated unique new species"
2:30 - Debeffe L, Medill SA, Richard E, Weisgerber J, and McLoughlin PD. 'Potential costs and benefits of social dispersal in a polygynous mammal'
2:45 - Neilson E and Boutin S. 'Wolf-mediated changes to moose habitat selection in the Athabasca oil sands'
3:00 - Perry TA, Vander Wal E and McLoughlin PD. 'When Refuge Becomes Risk: The Effect of Hunting on Moose Resource Use in Gros Morne National Park, NL.'
3:15 - Prokopenko CM, Avgar T, and Boyce MS. 'Elk habitat selection on disturbed landscapes at multiple scales'
3:30 - Tanner A and Leroux S. 'Effect of Roadside Vegetation Cutting on Moose Browsing'
3:45 - Anand M, Bauch C, and Nowak S. 'Biodiversity optimization in mosaic ecosystems'
2:30 - Lewthwaite J, Mooers AO, Kerr JT. 'Dynamic Patterns of Phylogenetic Endemism in British Columbia’s Butterflies over the Past Century'
2:45 - Campbell E, Dupuis J, and Sperling F. 'Species delimitation of the Silverspot butterflies'
3:00 - Dupuis JR and Sperling FAH. 'Hybrid dynamics of the Papilio machaon species group of swallowtail butterflies in western Canada'
3:15 - Godfrey C and Rundle H. 'Sexual selection on male antler flies in the wild'
3:30 - Leduc-Robert G and Maddison WP. 'Phylogenetic resolution of Habronattus jumping spiders using transcriptomes'
3:45 - Richards M, Vickruck JL, Botezatu IA, and Pickering G. 'Do Bees Smell...Like Kin? Chemical and genetic variation in eastern carpenter bee colonies'
2:30 - Bontrager MG and Angert A. 'Effects of range-wide variation in climate and isolation on mating-system and fitness of Clarkia pulchella'
2:45 - Campbell LG. 'Contemporary evolution and the dynamics of persistence in crop-wild hybrids with heritable variation for two weedy life histories'
3:00 - Moyers BT and Rieseberg L. 'The landscape of divergence in silverleaf sunflowers'
3:15 - Pieper SJ, Freeland JF, and Dorken ME. 'Hybridization in cattails (Typha spp.): its prevalence and effects on genetic diversity in wetlands across northeastern North America'
3:30 - Tovar L and Kembel SW. 'Drivers of taxonomic and functional diversity of tropical forest phyllosphere microbial communities'
3:45 - Whitton J, Grimm J, and Hersh E. 'Attack of the clones: the role of pollen from ‘asexual’ donors in the presence of sexual recipients'
2:30 - Fortin D, Buono P-L, Schmitz O, Courbin N, Losier C, St-Laurent M-H, Drapeau P, Heppell S, Dussault C, Brodeur V and Mainguy J. 'Species-specific habitat selection by apparent competitors can reverse density dependence in fitness correlates
3:00 - Schmitz OJ 'Toward a community ecology of landscapes: using resource selection to develop predictive theory for multiple predator-prey interactions
3:30 - Boyce M 'Spatial ecology meets population biology
Airst J and Lingle S. 'Variation in Male Mating Tactics in White-tailed and Mule Deer'
Andres D and McLoughlin PD 'Sex differences in boldness of juvenile horses'
Arcand MM and Helgason BL. 'Soil decomposer community composition and activity differs between organic and conventional farming systems'
Attanayake U and Lamb EG. 'Assessment of Species Distribution Models to Predict Occurrences of Endemic Plant Species with Specialized Habitat Requirements in the Athabasca Sand Dunes of Northern Saskatchewan'
Bessho K and Otto SP. 'The evolution of macroalgal life cycles with haploid and diploid phases in spatially structured populations'
Blackburn GS. 'Landscape genetics of divergence-with-gene-flow in spruce budworm'
Bohn SJ and Brigham RM. 'Energetic Implications of Summer Roost Selection in Female Silver-haired Bats'
Bowman JA, Parmiter S, and Brown CD 'Resolving the fire regime of Labrador: A comparison of historic and recent forest fires'
Burns ID, Cullingham CI, and Coltman DW. 'Characterizing a genetic mosaic – the lodgepole-jack pine hybrid zone'
Chang AM and Wiebe K 'Habitat use and movement patterns of snowy owls (Bubo scandiacus) in winter'
Crane AL and Ferrari MCO. 'Can tadpoles update information about predation risk by extrapolating from prior risk trends?'
Falardeau M and Bennett EB. 'Linking changes in the Arctic marine ecosystem to the provisioning of ecosystem services and Inuit wellbeing'
Florko KR, Petersen SD, and Ferguson SH. 'Abundance estimates, haul-out patterns, and natural history of harbour seals (Phoca vitulina) in the Churchill River Estuary'
Heisler LM, Somers C, and Poulin R. 'Owl pellets: an effective alternative to conventional trapping for broad-scale studies of small mammal communities'
Horachek ME, Johnstone JF, Laroque CP. 'Radial growth patterns of jack pine in relation to climate, moisture availability, and dwarf mistletoe infection in the Boreal Plains Ecozone of Saskatchewan, Canada'
Ibarguchi G. 'Biodiversity and Ecosystem Monitoring Come of Age'
Jegede OO and Owojori OJ. 'The influence of anthropogenic disturbance on the temporal distribution of the weaver ant Oecophylla longinoda'
Kricsfalusy VK. 'Plant species prioritization for conservation and monitoring: combining regional rarity and management needs'
Levesque D, Lamb EG and Henderson D. 'The use of riparian health assessments to evaluate cumulative anthropogenic effects to wetland habitats in the prairie pothole region of Saskatchewan'
Maloney, E. Morrissey, C Headley J, Prue K, and Lieber, K. 'Neonicotinoid insecticides: effects of acute exposure on the survival of aquatic invertebrates'
Medill SA, Janz DM, and McLoughlin PD. 'Cortisol and testosterone levels derived from hair: physiological and social correlates in feral horses (Equus ferus caballus)'
Merriam AB and Lamb EG. 'Relationship between exotic plant invasion and native species richness on a remnant prairie'
Millar JS, Lobo N, and McAdam AG. 'Trapping data for mice and voles in the Kananaskis Valley, Alberta, 1983-2011'
Morken JA, Conway AJ and Johnstone JF. 'The effects of fire severity and herbivory on the growth and succession of the boreal forest in interior Alaska'
Myers JH, Cory JS, and MacDonald RP. 'Temperature, viral infection and population cycles of western tent caterpillars'
Robicheau B, Powell A, Del Bel L, Breton S, and Stewart D. 'Doubly uniparental inheritance of mtDNA in the marine horse-mussel (M. modiolus): a comparison of female and male associated mitochondrial genomes'
Fresque J and Schamp B. 'Do positively and negatively co-occurring plant species differ in functional niche overlap?'
Serajchi M, Lamb EG, and Schellenberg M. 'Weed Communities in Native Prairie Seeded Mixtures in Semiarid Saskatchewan'
Shafer A. The genomic legacy of past exploitation and climatic oscillations in pinnipeds
Shibel Z and Heard SB. 'Synergistic and additive effects of water stress and clipping on S.altissima and S.gigantea'
Sinclair-Waters M, Bentzen P, Bradbury I, Hamilton L, and Morris C. 'Genomic tools for the management of a marine protected area in coastal Labrador: the Gilbert Bay Atlantic Cod MPA'
Singh, KK, Henkelman J, and Johnstone JF. 'Implications of high-resolution remote sensing data and landscape characteristics for large area boreal forest vegetation assessment'
Wilcox A, McGuire LP, Fuller N, Mayberry H, Willis CKR. 'Roost preferences of endangered little brown bats (Myotis lucifugus) recovering from white-nose syndrome'
Vladimir Kricsfalusy, PhD, Associate Professor AP, Program Director Master of Sustainable Environmental Management, School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Saskatchewan.
I am about to graduate with a degree in Applied Plant Ecology and this is my first Ecology conference! I did an undergraduate thesis with Dr. Eric Lamb on the effect of exotic plant invasion on native richness and I am interested in invasion and fire ecology. Orchids are also a special... Read More →
This session and mixer will provide students with a unique opportunity to meet with postdocs and professors of diverse backgrounds to discuss certain aspects of successful careers in research. While the advice will be serious, the event will take place in an informal pub setting. The bar will be arranged so that there are different stations with resident experts dedicated to each subject. Students will be free to move from topic to topic and engage in the discourse over a few pints.
8:30 - Graham B, Sandoval LA, and Mennill DJ. 'Degradation of male and female Rufous-and-white Wren songs and elements: A test of the acoustic adaptation hypothesis at three forest habitats in Costa Rica'
8:45 - Harrower WL, Fraser LH, and Turkington DJ. 'The Distribution and Abundance of Grassland Songbirds in South-Central British Columbia'
9:00 - Martin C and Proulx R. 'Habitat geometry, a step towards general bird community assembly rules'
9:15 - Michelson CI, Morrissey CA, and Clark RG. 'Dietary responses of tree swallows (Tachycineta bicolor) from agricultural intensification and implications for adult mass and nestling condition'
9:30 - Shonfield JK, and Bayne E. 'Do owls avoid industrial noise sources in northeastern Alberta?'
8:30 - Awad Dosen J, Raboy BE, and Fortin MJ. 'Restoration Strategies to Improve Animal Movement in the Atlantic Forest'
8:45 - Dickie MM, Serrouya R, and Boutin S. 'The effect of anthropogenic linear features on wolf selection, movement and hunting'
9:00 - Laforge MP, Clark D, and Brook R. 'Non-invasive monitoring of the temporal aspects of polar bear activity during seasonal ice-free periods'
9:15 - Schulte-Hostedde AI, Lyons J, Edwards DB, and Mastromonaco G. 'Urban chipmunks are fat and less stressed than chipmunks from natural habitats'
9:30 - Stewart FEC, Heim NA, Clevenger AP, Paczkowski J, Volpe JP, and Fisher JT. 'The role of behaviour in wolverine range contraction; implications for species declines and management'
9:45 - St-Hilaire E, Réale D, and Garant D. 'Determinants and fitness consequences of docility in wild Eastern chipmunks (Tamias striatus)'
8:30 - King I, Hill S, Bogart J, Shokralla S, and Hajibabaei M. 'Using environmental DNA (eDNA) for monitoring Jefferson Salamander (Ambystoma jeffersonianum) and the Ambystoma species complex in southern Ontario'
8:45 - Mason GE, Fleming IA, Hamilton LC, and Bradbury IR. 'Rapid evolution in an introduced population of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) population: genomic and experimental evidence of adaptation in Rocky River, Newfoundland'
9:00 - Pavey SA, Gaudin J, Normandeau E, Dionne M, Castonguay M, Audet C, and Bernatchez L. 'RAD-sequencing highlights polygenic discrimination of habitat ecotypes in the panmictic American Eel (Anguilla rostrata)'
9:15 - Lait LA, and Carr SM. 'Mitogenomics of at-risk marine species: does complete mtDNA analyses change our view on population genetics?'
9:30 - Rougeux C, Gagnaire PA, and Bernatchez L. 'Demographic divergence history of American whitefish species pairs inferred from genome-wide SNPs'
9:45 - Graham CG, Glenn TC, McArthur AG, Boreham DR, Kieran T, Lance S, Manzon RG, Martino JA, Pierson T, Rogers SM, Wilson JY, and Somers CM. 'How degraded is too degraded? The effects of DNA quality on RADSeq in molecular ecology'
8:30 - 9:00 Axel Diederichsen, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Saskatoon, Canada, Crop evolution:Vavilovian centers of crop origins
9:00 - 9:30 Shahal Abbo, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, Plant domestication vs. Crop evolution: How can we distinguish between the two? And why does it matter?
9:30 - 10:00 Robin Allaby, University of Warwick, UK, The pace of adaptation under domestication
10:30 - Steinaker D and Leavitt P. 'New meaning in old data: facilitators of synthesis research in ecology and evolution'
10:45 - Cottenie K, Linquist S, Gregory TR, Elliott TA, Saylor B, Trombley C, and Kremer SC. 'Yes! There are stable generalisations ('laws') in ecology'
11:00 - Fox J, Vasseur D, Gonzalez A, Adrian R, Beisner B, Helmus M, Johnson C, Kratina P, Kremer C, de Mazancourt C, Miller E, Nelson W, Paterson M, Rusak J, Shurin J, and Steiner C. 'Synchrony, not compensatory dynamics, is the rule among zooplankton competitors at all temporal scales'
11:15 - Waldron A, Miller DC, Redding D, Mooers A, Kuhn TS, Nibbelink N, Roberts JT, Tobias JA, and Gittleman JL. 'Predicting the quantitative impacts of conservation investment and human pressure on global biodiversity'
11:30 - Thompson PL, Pedersen EJ, Gonzalez A, Guichard F, Fortin MJ, Pepin P, Ball A, Gouhier TC, Link H, Moritz C, Nenzen H, Stanley R, and Taranu Z. 'Anatomy of the collapse and onset of recovery in the North Atlantic groundfish community'
11:45 - Wissel B. 'Importance of climate and land-use as regulators of food-web structure in prairie lakes'
10:30 -- Faye L, Matthey-Doret R, Whitlock M, and Mooers AO. 'Phylogenomics Method for Ranking Populations of the Endangered Anadromous Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar) for Conservation Management'
10:45 - Morgan TD, Boreham DR, Lance SL, Martino JA, Mazon RG, Wilson JY, and Somers CM. 'Population dynamics of the round whitefish (Prosopium cylindraceum) – Disjunct population structure of potentially sensitive species in Canada'
11:00 - Baerwald EF. 'Population Genetic Structure of Hoary Bats and Silver-Haired Bats Across Canada'
11:15 - Lamb CT, Mowat G, McLellan BM, Nielsen SE, and Boutin S. 'Grizzly bear demography in a region of rich fruit resources and high human-caused mortality'
11:30 - Miller JM and Coltman DW. 'Exploring the Genomic Basis for Fitness Related Traits in Bighorn Sheep'
11:45 - Lesbarrères D, Sasaki K, Beaulieu CT, Watson G, and Litzgus J. 'Effects of mining-altered environment on individual fitness in amphibians and reptiles'
10:30 - Adl S, Crotty F, and Wilson M. 'Fate of germinating seedling determined by rhizosphere food web'
10:45 - Bennett JA, and Pärtel M. 'Predicting establishment by modelling niche space using traits of observed and absent species'
11:00 - McNickle GG, Lamb EG, Lavender M, Cahill JFJ, Schamp B, and Baltzer JL. 'The species interactions that structure communities are not detectable at all spatial scales'
11:15 - Ren L, Romo JT, Bai Y, and Coulman BE. 'Burning Modified Species Composition of Emerged Seedlings in Fescue Prairie'
11:30 - Rozendaal DMA, Chazdon RL, and Bongers F. 'Contrasting biomass dynamics during succession in Neotropical dry and wet forests'
11:45 - Walker E, and Lundholm J. 'Investigating the effects of environmental heterogeneity on the seedling dynamics of a native-planted green roof'
10:30 - 11:00 Marc Johnson, University of Toronto-Mississauga, Toronto, Canada, Impact of crop domestication on resistance to herbivores
11:00 -11:30 Isobel Parkin. Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Saskatoon, Canada. Early allopolyploid evolution in Brassica napus oilseed genome
11:30 -12:00 Paul Gepts, University of California Davis, CA, USA, The PvTFL1y locus for determinacy in common bean: the origin of mutations in crop evolution
My research and teaching is focused on studying the evolutionary factors that affect crop biodiversity, with particular emphasis on Phaseolus beans, including intrinsic plant factors such as gene flow and gene diversification, environmental correlations with crop biodiversity, and... Read More →
1:00 - Hajibabaei, M. 'Large-scale biodiversity monitoring through DNA analysis of environmental samples: a case study from Wood Buffalo National Park'
1:15 - Maire V, Wright IJ, Prentice IC, Batejes NH, Bhaskar R, van Bodegom PM, Cornwell WK, Ellsworth D, Niinemets Ü, Ordonez A, Reich PB, and Santiago LS. 'Joint impact of soil and climate on leaf photosynthetic strategies at the global scale'
1:30 - Poisot T, Albouy C, Cazelles K, Cirtwill A, Baiser B, Woods SA, Araujo MA, Stouffer D, Fortin MJ and Grave D. 'Community ecology at the continental scale'
1:45 - Otter KA and Ramsay SM. 'Solving the question of migration in the white-throated sparrows of British Columbia using geolocators1q'
1:00 - Bubac CM and Spellman GM. 'How habitat connectivity shapes genetic structure during range expansion: insights from Virginia's Warbler'
1:15 - Cullingham CI, Janes JK, James PMA, Sperling FAH, and Coltman DW. 'Separating genomic signals of demography from adaptation in rapidly expanding mountain pine beetle populations'
1:30 - Kilgour RJ, Betini GS, McAdam AG, and Norris DR. 'The relationship between group composition, density and the evolution of aggression'
1:45 - Vickruck JL and Richards MH. 'Population structure of the Eastern Carpenter bee, (Xylocopa virginica) across eastern North America'
2:30 - 3:00 Greg Baute, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, The genomic profile of a new hybrid crop: 40 years of sunflower breeding
3:00 - 3:30 Loren Rieseberg, University of British Columbia, BC, Canada, The accumulation of deleterious mutations as a consequence of domestication and improvement in sunflowers and other Compositae crops
A presentation from the NSERC Program Officer for the Evolution and Ecology Evaluation Group for Discovery Grants. Each year, the CSEE executive requests that we present DG results and discuss “How to Apply”.
Madhur Anand (University of Guelph) will give a public reading of poetry based on selections from her new book, "A New Index for Predicting Catastrophes" (Published in 2015 from McClelland and Stewart).
"Originating from her living room, backyard garden, university office, or the field sites in boreal or tropical forests, the poems in this debut collection by Madhur Anand compose a lyric science; they bring together order and chaos into a unified theory of predicting catastrophes, large and small. Anand is an ecologist whose poetics are sophisticated and original, and her voice is an “index,” a way of cataloguing and measuring the world and human experience. Narrating the beauty of her perceived world, the poems unabashedly embrace the scintillant language of scientific evidence as they interrogate crises of personal and global concern. The result is a poetry that is as complex as it is compassionate. Anand’s modernist intervention into “nature” poetry is a sparkling addition to poetics in Canada and beyond."
An evening at a local microbrewery. For those who want to go early and eat at Prairie sun, a bus will be available to bring you back to campus in time for the public lecture. Another bus will leave after the public lecture. Please purchase tickets for this event at the registration desk.
Bus pickup times are as follows: Place Riel (University Bus Loop) 4:45 PM 5:30 PM 6:40 PM 8:40 PM 9:30 PM
Prairie Sun Brewery (Drop off at University or by Request at Park Town Hotel) 6:10 PM 7:00 PM 9:00 PM 10:00 PM 12:30 AM 1:10 AM
Childrens Public Outreach event by Mark Brigham and Craig Willis. Prior to the public lecture at 7:30, the speakers will be giving a short presentation on bats just for kids! Come learn some cool facts and get some background knowledge on bats before the lecture!
8:30 - Butt JC and Somers C. 'The Ecology and Behavior of Walleye and Sauger in Saskatchewan: A Proposal'
8:45 - Eberts RL, Boreham D, Crawford S, Manzon R, Wilson J, Wissel B, and Somers C. 'Resource-use heterogeneity in Lake Huron Lake Whitefish'
9:00 - Horn ME and Chivers D. 'Early schooling for fish: learned predator recognition starts in the egg'
9:15 - Iwanicki TW, Novales Flamarique I, Morris E, and Taylor JS. 'Flatfish active camouflage can expose why large opsin repertoires evolved'
9:30 - Jardine T, Rayner T, Pettit N, Douglas M, Fry B, Bunn S, Woods R, Marshall J, Fawcett J, Lobegeiger J, Valdez D, and Kainz M. 'Variation in diet among individuals, and it's consequences, in Flood Plane River food webs'
9:45 - Pedersen EJ, Carpenter SR, and Vander Zanden MJ. 'Patterns of synchrony and collapse in a midwestern Walleye fishery'
8:30 - Colpitts J, Rode N, and Rundle H. Sexual conflict in Drosophila serrata across populations and environments
8:45 - Haines JA, Gorrell JC, McAdam AG, Coltman DW, Humphries MM, and Boutin S. Life history traits and age-related reproduction in male red squirrels
9:00 - Lachowsky LE and Reid ML. Maternal state and habitat quality as causes of offspring mortality and sex bias
9:15 - Manning JA and McLoughlin PD. Climate-dependent male mating success determines spatially-explicit polygyny thresholds: the effects of climate change on sexual selection in Sable Island horses
9:30 - Mlynarek J and Heard S. Diversity and natural history of Astereae (Asteraceae) leaf miners
9:45 - Thorn MW and Morbey YE. Maternal Effects in Early Diverging Chinook Salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) Populations
8:30 - Lee C and Whitton J. Patterns of Niche Evolution and Speciation in Townsendia
8:45 - Mamet SD, Singh KK, Chun KP, Brown CD, Bernard J, and Johnstone JF. A sensitive slope at treeline: Do substrate and environmental characteristics determine tree sensitivity to climate?
9:00 - Hardy S and Siciliano S. Survival of the Salix: Fertility of Frost Boils in a Polar Desert
9:15 - Jean M, Melvin AM, Mack MC, and Johnstone JF. 'Room to breathe: Impacts of environment and leaf litter on moss growth and N-fixation
9:30 - Kambo D and Danby R. Seed availability and substrate influence on germination rates of white spruce in a boreal-tundra ecotone
9:45 - Pounden E and Greene DF. Timing of bud differentiation in Pinaceae species
I focus my research on range limits of tree species at northern tree lines, and how climate and environmental change shape tree line dynamics. I thoroughly enjoy the outdoors and wearing plaid—boreal fieldwork allows me to indulge both my passions.
8:35 - Coltman D. 'Disentangling environmental and genetic responses of the condition of Western Hudson Bay polar bears to a rapidly changing environment'
9:00 - Festa-Bianchet M. 'How differences in age distribution, inbreeding and occurrence of specialist predators affect dynamics of small populations of ungulates'
9:30 - McAdam A. 'Lessons learned from evolutionary biology and inter-individual variance in fitness'
10:30 - Dalziel AC, Laporte M, Guderley H, and Bernatchez L. Evolution of energy metabolism among Lake Whitefish ecotypes
10:45 - Demuth BS, Ferrari MCO, and Chivers DP. The context of stress influences fear conditioning and anti-predator strategy in wood frog tadpoles (Lithobates sylvaticus)
11:00 - Jain-Schlaepfer SMR, Blouin-Demers G, Cooke SJ, and Bulte G. Effect of basking disturbances by motorboats on the energy budget of northern map turtles
11:15 - Johns D, Marchant TA, Fairhurst GD, Hambly C, and Clark RG. Avian Integrated Biomarkers: Understanding relationships between feather corticosterone and workload
10:30 - Batista PD, Janes JK, Boone CK, Murray BW, and Sperling FAH. Evaluation of the genetic structure of mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae Hopkins) across North America
10:45 - Taylor JS, and Beaudry FEG. So many light sensitive opsin genes in fish
11:00 - LeBlanc N, Stewart S, and Mallory M. Phylogeographic analysis of purple sandpipers (Calidris maritima) as revealed by mitochondrial DNA and microsatellites
11:15 - Osmond MM and Otto SP. Crossing fitness-valleys without the help of Mendel: extending theory
11:30 - Griswold C,How thinking about gene interactions (or epistasis) genealogically may help us understand the evolution of diversity
11:45 - Giroux-Bougard X, Laurence S, Cardille J, Schulte-Hostedde A, and Humphries M. Optimization of landscape resistance models coupled with spatial eigenfunction analyses reveals fine-scale genetic structures in muskrat (Ondatra zibethicus)
10:30 - Bateson DE, and Wissel B. Environmental controls of under-ice oxygen depletion rates in prairie lakes
10:45 - Crook KA, and Davoren G. Seasonal diet shifts in green sea urchins (Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis) in coastal Newfoundland: the influence of spawning capelin (Mallotus villosus)
11:00 - Hesjedal B. The response of zooplankton communities to nitrogen deposition and climate change in boreal lakes downwind of the Athabasca Oil Sands
11:15 - Hixson SM, Sharma B, Kainz MJ, Wacker A, and Arts MT. A meta-analysis of long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids in terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems
11:30 - Naman SM, Rosenfeld J, Way J, and Richardson J. Habitat structure and functional traits mediate emigration of stream invertebrates following high and low flow disturbances
11:45 - Phillips ID, Bowman MF, McMaster G, and Chivers DP. A multivariate aquatic biomonitoring tool for the Northern Great Plains
Early Career Award Lecture by Sam Yeaman. Local adaptation and the evolution of genetic and genomic architecture
The CSEE Early Career Award recognizes outstanding accomplishments and promising future research potential in ecology and evolution by scientists early in their careers. Each year one candidate is recognized with the Early Career Award. This year’s recipient is Dr. Sam Yeaman. Dr. Yeaman is interested in evolvability the maintenance of variation, and particularly evolution and adaptation in heterogeneous environments. Sam completed an undergraduate degree at Trent, and a PhD with Michael Whitlock at UBC. His work has appeared in a wide range of journals, including Evolution, Global Change Biology, PNAS and Science. Sam has joined the faculty at University of Calgary.
Presidents Lecture by Graham Bell. Can major ecological transitions be studied in the laboratory?
The CSEE President’s Award is the highest distinction conferred by the Society, and is given every two years to a Canadian scientist in recognition of outstanding scientific contributions that support the research objectives of the Society. Professor Graham Bell is the 2015 recipient of the Presidents Award. Professor Bell is an evolutionary biologist with broad interests, including the evolution of sexual reproduction, the maintenance of variation, and adaptation to changing environments. He is the author of several monographs and textbooks, most recently, The Evolution of Life (Oxford). Graham is well known to members, as past President of CSEE. He is currently President of the Royal Society of Canada.
Wanuskewin Heritage Park on the edge of Saskatoon preserves a patch of native grassland and one of the most important archaeological sites on the Canadian Prairies. Walk across a grassland and valley that has seen more than 6000 years of human habitation and visit a medicine wheel, tipi rings, and bison kill sites.
Monday May 25, 2015 08:30 - 12:00 CST
Wanuskewin Heritage ParkRegistration Desk (Geology Atrium, University of Saskatchewan)
The tour of the PGRC facility, led by Dr. Yong-Bi Fu, will provide a brief history of Canadian germplasm conservation efforts, a visit to the secure Canadian seed bank storage vaults, a first-hand view of the breadth of diversity within the collection, and more importantly, an appreciation of Canadian agricultural biodiversity.
