Presenter's Name Program # Partial Abstract Title Presentation Time Session Assignment
Adams, Nicole
Genetic structure and multiple paternity in invasive Red Swamp Crayfish in southeastern Michigan, USA
Thursday, June 9
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Evolutionary Genetics
Agranat-Tamir, Lily
Genetic ancestors of an admixed population
Wednesday, June 8
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Population Genetics
Aguirre, Matthew
Simulating systemic effects of expression quantitative trait loci across gene regulatory networks
Wednesday, June 8
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Quantitative Genetics
Alemrajabi, Mahsa
Epistatic constraint on RNA secondary structure drives the evolution of SARS-CoV-2
Thursday, June 9
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Population Genetics
Ali, Jameel
77W
Predicting Antibiotic Resistance Through the Utilization and Comparison of Machine Learning Algorithms
Wednesday, June 8
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Evolutionary Genetics
Alvarez, Mariano
59
Merrill
Interpretable machine learning improves performance in association, discovery, and prediction
Friday, June 10
10:50 AM - 11:05 AM
Oral
Platform Session #6 Theory and Methods
Amin, Md Ruhul
Tensor decomposition-based feature extraction and classification to detect natural selection from genomic data.
Thursday, June 9
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Population Genetics
Anstett, Daniel
Putative drought-adapted SNPs increase in frequency during severe drought
Thursday, June 9
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Evolutionary Genetics
Antony, MaryGracy
78T
Uncovering the mysteries of antibiotic resistance through phylogenetic analysis
Thursday, June 9
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Evolutionary Genetics
Apodaca, Sam
5
Merrill
High-Resolution Exploration of Collateral Sensitivity using Molecularly Barcoded S. Cerevisiae
Wednesday, June 8
9:00 AM - 9:15 AM
Oral
Platform Session 1 Complex Traits
Ardell, Sarah
60
Merrill
The population genetics of collateral resistance and sensitivity
Friday, June 10
11:05 AM - 11:20 AM
Oral Virtual
Platform Session #6 Theory and Methods
Ardery, Sam
Assessing the impacts of single-end and paired-end RNA-seq on gene expression estimates and eQTL detection.
Wednesday, June 8
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Quantitative Genetics
Arnab, Sandipan Paul
56
Merrill
Uncovering footprints of natural selection through time-frequency analysis of genomic summary statistics
Friday, June 10
9:45 AM - 10:00 AM
Oral
Platform Session #6 Theory and Methods
Ayala, Nicolas
Inferring non-additive multi-locus selection in introgressed populations using hidden markov models
Wednesday, June 8
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Quantitative Genetics
Aydin, Selcan
Genetic dissection of the pluripotent proteome through multi-omics data integration
Thursday, June 9
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Quantitative Genetics
Ayhan, Dilay Hazal
Online
Heat adaptation in cross-kingdom pathogenic fungus Fusarium oxysporum
Tuesday, June 7
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Poster Virtual
Evolutionary Genetics
Ayroles, julien
Diverse environmental perturbations reveal the evolution and context-dependency of genetic effects on gene expression levels
Thursday, June 9
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Quantitative Genetics
Baker, EmilyClare
Rapid evolution of microbial adherence by host protein domain shuffling.
Wednesday, June 8
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Evolutionary Genetics
Baldwin-Brown, James
A high-resolution map of Drosophila hybrid pairing connects BLACK heterochromatin to pairing loss, reproductive incompatibility, and DNA underreplication
Wednesday, June 8
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Evolutionary Genetics
Ballinger, Mallory
45
Merrill
Environmental adaptation in house mice: genetic and non-genetic effects on gene expression
Thursday, June 9
3:45 PM - 4:00 PM
Oral
Platform Session #5 Experimental Evolution
Baltzegar, Jennifer
Tracking the origins and rapid rise of two distinct insecticide resistance haplotypes
Thursday, June 9
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Population Genetics
Banabazi, Mohammad Hossein
Online
The effect of crossbreeding on the transcriptome profiling of indigenous cattle populations: a case study
Tuesday, June 7
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Poster Virtual
Evolutionary Genetics
Banabazi, Mohammad Hossein
Online
The Candidate Chromosomal Regions Responsible for Milk Yield of Cow: A GWAS Meta-Analysis
Tuesday, June 7
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Poster Virtual
Quantitative Genetics
Baylis, Mara
79T
Somatic Mutations in Mitochondrial DNA of Drosophila
Thursday, June 9
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Evolutionary Genetics
Bechtel, Tyler
48
Merrill
Investigating the genetic determinants of L. monocytogenes stress tolerance to food-industry relevant stressors through adaptive laboratory evolution
Thursday, June 9
4:30 PM - 4:45 PM
Oral
Platform Session #5 Experimental Evolution
Beltz, Jack
The Evolutionary Consequences of Host-Microbe Interactions: Rapid seasonal evolution of multiple host phenotypes mediated by associated microbes
Wednesday, June 8
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Evolutionary Genetics
Benitez-Rivera, Lorena
Finding patterns of antibiotic-resistant infections through the diversity of pathogenic sequence types.
Thursday, June 9
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Evolutionary Genetics
Berardi, Skyler
Rapid evolution of abdominal pigmentation in Drosophila melanogaster
Wednesday, June 8
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Evolutionary Genetics
Bilolikar, Gaurav
Online
Understanding epistasis in the Hsp90 network
Tuesday, June 7
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Poster Virtual
Population Genetics
Bitter, Mark
The genomic basis and repeatability of rapid seasonal evolution
Wednesday, June 8
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Population Genetics
Blackman, Benjamin
Revealing the dynamics of sunflower domestication with archaeological DNA
Wednesday, June 8
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Population Genetics
Blanc, Jennifer
8
Merrill
Guaranteeing unbiasedness in selection tests based on polygenic scores
Wednesday, June 8
9:45 AM - 10:00 AM
Oral
Platform Session 1 Complex Traits
Blanco Portillo, Javier
The Polynesian Settlement of the Hawaiian Archipelago
Thursday, June 9
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Population Genetics
Booker, Tom
24
Merrill
Identifying the genetic basis of convergent local adaptation in conifers
Wednesday, June 8
4:45 PM - 5:00 PM
Oral
Platform Session #2 Genetics of Adaptation
Booker, William
Expanding the Use of Generative Adversarial Networks in Population Genetics to Create Artificial Sequence Alignments
Wednesday, June 8
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Population Genetics
Bracewell, Ryan
80W
Sex chromosome evolution in beetles
Wednesday, June 8
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Evolutionary Genetics
Bradburd, Gideon
Drivers of Diversity and Divergence in the Sea
Thursday, June 9
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Population Genetics
Brand, Cara
72W
Cross-species incompatibility between a DNA satellite and the Drosophila Spartan homolog poisons germline genome integrity
Wednesday, June 8
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Evolutionary Genetics
Brown, Keely
Online
Genome-wide association mapping of transcriptome variation in Mimulus guttatus indicates differing patterns of selection on cis- versus trans-acting mutations
Tuesday, June 7
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Poster Virtual
Population Genetics
Brud, Evgeny
Accumulation of hybrid incompatibilities on scale-free networks with purifying selection
Thursday, June 9
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Population Genetics
Buffalo, Vincent
When B is shaped like a U: is weak selection on deleterious alleles important?
Wednesday, June 8
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Population Genetics
Burgin, Grace
The role of pollinators in shaping plant population genetic structure
Wednesday, June 8
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Population Genetics
Bush, Robert
Piecing Together the Periodical Cicada Puzzle
Wednesday, June 8
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Evolutionary Genetics
Cai, Haoran
Exploiting inherent interdependencies among traits for genetic association analysis
Wednesday, June 8
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Quantitative Genetics
Calvert, McCall
Online
What makes a generalist? Using whole genome amplification with whole genome sequencing to quantify host-associated genetic structure in root knot nematodes
Tuesday, June 7
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Poster Virtual
Population Genetics
Camm, Benjamin
Exploiting Genetic Variation to Model Localised Homing Gene Drives
Wednesday, June 8
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Population Genetics
Campelo dos Santos, Andre Luiz
Genomic evidence for ancient migration routes along South America's Atlantic coast
Wednesday, June 8
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Population Genetics
Carja, Oana
From pattern to function: eco-evolutionary representations of complex spatial structure for the new era of spatial biology
Thursday, June 9
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Population Genetics
Carmona Baez, Aldo
81W
Mapping the genomic basis of trophic level adaptation in Lake Malawi cichlid fishes
Wednesday, June 8
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Evolutionary Genetics
Castellano, David
Online
The relationship between the distribution of fitness effects and the distribution of mutation rates
Tuesday, June 7
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Poster Virtual
Population Genetics
Caudill, Victoria
73W
Cracking Coevolution: Consequences of Space and Genetic Architecture
Wednesday, June 8
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Evolutionary Genetics
chacon-vargas, katherine
Comparative genomics of Aspergillus oryzae genomes from different clades reveals signatures of artificial selection in primary and secondary metabolism in domesticate environments
Wednesday, June 8
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Population Genetics
Chakrabarty, Swapan
82T
Using the Eucalyptus polybractea genome improved genetic variant identification compared to using a pseudo-reference
Thursday, June 9
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Evolutionary Genetics
Chang, Ching-Ho
Online
Unique structure and positive selection promote the rapid divergence of Drosophila Y chromosomes
Tuesday, June 7
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Poster Virtual
Evolutionary Genetics
Chaturvedi, Samridhi
Identifying patterns of introgression in two species pairs of Texas Phlox
Thursday, June 9
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Evolutionary Genetics
Chen, Jiarun
Polygenic adaptation under recurrent changes in environment
Thursday, June 9
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Quantitative Genetics
Chen, Nancy
63
Merrill
Indirect genetic effects across life cycle stages in a cooperatively breeding bird
Friday, June 10
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Oral
Keynote #4 (Session Chairs) and Awards
Chen, Z.
41
Merrill
Genomic and Epigenomic Insights into Formation and Evolution of Polyploid Plants and Crops
Thursday, June 9
2:30 PM - 2:45 PM
Oral
Platform Session #4 Genome and Molecular Evolution
Cheng, Xiaoheng
58
Merrill
Examining polygenic adaptation in time-stratified genome samples with diffusion-based hidden-Markov models
Friday, June 10
10:35 AM - 10:50 AM
Oral
Platform Session #6 Theory and Methods
Chida, Afiya
Identifying the genetic factors in natural genome backgrounds that modulate essential phenotypic outcomes using C. elegans
Thursday, June 9
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Quantitative Genetics
Chintalapati, Manjusha
30
Merrill
The spatiotemporal patterns of major human admixture events during the European Holocene
Thursday, June 9
9:45 AM - 10:00 AM
Oral
Platform Session #3 Speciation, Hybridization, and Introgression
Churchill, Gary
Online
Genetic analysis of multi-omics data identifies drivers of protein phosphorylation
Tuesday, June 7
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Poster Virtual
Quantitative Genetics
Clark, Amanda
Population structure and historical demography of a reptile species that has evolved insular dwarfism on the California Channel Islands.
Wednesday, June 8
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Population Genetics
Coffing, Gabrielle
83T
Leveraging a de-novo long read assembly for comparative and functional genomics of the Octopus bimaculoides
Thursday, June 9
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Evolutionary Genetics
Cole, Jared
The battle of the sexes in humans is highly polygenic
Thursday, June 9
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Population Genetics
Collins, Mahlon
Online
Natural Variation in Ubiquitin System Genes Creates Complex, Pathway-Specific Effects on Proteasomal Protein Degradation
Tuesday, June 7
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Poster Virtual
Quantitative Genetics
Cosgrove, Elissa
Estimation of selection components in a pedigreed population of Florida Scrub-Jays
Thursday, June 9
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Population Genetics
Cotter, Daniel
The effect of consanguinity on X-chromosomal and autosomal genomic sharing
Thursday, June 9
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Population Genetics
Coughlan, Jenn
Patterns of population structure and polymorphic reproductive isolation in Drosophila melanogaster
Thursday, June 9
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Evolutionary Genetics
Crampton-Mawass, Walid
Evolutionary change in age at first reproduction in a preindustrial human population is faster at times of high infant mortality
Wednesday, June 8
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Quantitative Genetics
Crawford, Lorin
64
Merrill
Association and Fine-Mapping with Bayesian Machine Learning Methods
Friday, June 10
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Oral
Keynote #4 (Session Chairs) and Awards
Cromie, Gareth
Individual Loci Radically Alter the Genetic Architecture of Complex Traits
Thursday, June 9
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Quantitative Genetics
Crook, Crystal
84W
Exploiting Natural Variation to Understand the Role of Mkt1p in Post-Transcriptional Gene Regulation
Wednesday, June 8
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Evolutionary Genetics
Cryan, Elli
Network analysis of complex trait evolution
Thursday, June 9
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Quantitative Genetics
Cui, Leilei
13
Merrill
Dominance genetic effects on complex traits in pigs, rats and mice are associated with trans-acting dominance gene expression effects
Wednesday, June 8
11:20 AM - 11:35 AM
Oral Virtual
Platform Session 1 Complex Traits
Czech, Lucas
Efficient analysis of allele frequency variation from whole-genome pool-sequencing data
Wednesday, June 8
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Population Genetics
Dabi, Amjad
54
Merrill
To Scale or Not to Scale: The Influence of Scaling on Forward-in-time Population Genetics Simulations
Friday, June 10
9:15 AM - 9:30 AM
Oral
Platform Session #6 Theory and Methods
Dagilis, Andrius Jonas
55
Merrill
The fitness of an introgressing haplotype
Friday, June 10
9:30 AM - 9:45 AM
Oral
Platform Session #6 Theory and Methods
Dahan-Meir, Tal
Stability of the genetic structure and association with microhabitat of a wild wheat population over 36 years
Wednesday, June 8
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Evolutionary Genetics
de Bernardi Schneider, Adriano
Understanding the spread of SARS-CoV-2 clusters through an integrated pipeline using UShER, Cluster Tracker and StrainHub
Wednesday, June 8
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Evolutionary Genetics
de Koning, Dirk-Jan
Online
Genetic markers associated with medullary and cortical bone in Rhode Island Red laying hens
Tuesday, June 7
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Poster Virtual
Quantitative Genetics
de Meaux, Juliette
Online
Strength of stabilizing selection is associated with the amount of non-additive variance in gene expression
Tuesday, June 7
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Poster Virtual
Population Genetics
Del Carpio, Christina
The Evolutionary Patterns of Recombination in North American Gray Wolves (Canis lupus) and Domestic Dog (C. familiaris)
Thursday, June 9
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Population Genetics
DeLiberto, Amanda
The Genomics of Highly Variable Physiological Response to Temperature
Wednesday, June 8
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Population Genetics
Delmore, Kira
Tissue-specific regulatory evolution involved in divergent migratory behavior
Thursday, June 9
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Evolutionary Genetics
Denton, Kaleda
Evolution of modifiers of conformity
Thursday, June 9
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Population Genetics
Di, Chenlu
Does adaptation to past viral infections involve changes in protein stability in host virus-interacting proteins?
Wednesday, June 8
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Population Genetics
DiVito Evans, Abigail
Online
Variation in chromatin determines genotype-by-environment interaction in Drosophila melanogaster diapause
Tuesday, June 7
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Poster Virtual
Quantitative Genetics
Dominguez Mantes, Albert
Neural ADMIXTURE: rapid population clustering with autoencoders
Wednesday, June 8
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Population Genetics
Drown, Melissa
mRNA expression explains metabolic and thermal tolerance trait variation
Wednesday, June 8
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Population Genetics
Durkin, Sylvia
85W
Gene regulation, environmental adaptation, and parallel expression divergence in Mus musculus domesticus
Wednesday, June 8
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Evolutionary Genetics
Ebel, Emily
Online
Antigenic variation in Plasmodium falciparum is maintained on extrachromosomal DNA
Tuesday, June 7
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Poster Virtual
Population Genetics
Eder, Rachel
Understanding the heterogeneity in gene regulatory responses to misfolded protein toxicity
Wednesday, June 8
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Population Genetics
Edwards, Jack
Barcoding the Lenski Long-Term Evolution Experiment for Massively Parallel Bulk Fitness Assays
Thursday, June 9
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Evolutionary Genetics
Ehrenreich, Ian
Complex genetics cause and constrain fungal persistence in different parts of the mammalian body
Wednesday, June 8
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Quantitative Genetics
Ehrlich, Moritz
Relentless Selection: Trait divergence under high gene flow
Wednesday, June 8
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Population Genetics
Elias, Ashley
Merrill
The Pond Team: An example of connecting interdisciplinary research and place-based learning for undergraduate research
Thursday, June 9
5:30 PM - 5:45 PM
Oral Virtual
Undergraduate Research Experience
Enbody, Erik
31
Merrill
Population genomics of an entire community of Galápagos finches
Thursday, June 9
10:00 AM - 10:15 AM
Oral
Platform Session #3 Speciation, Hybridization, and Introgression
Etim, Ime
Online
Frequency and distribution of some human phenotypes among a population in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria
Tuesday, June 7
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Poster Virtual
Population Genetics
Exposito-Alonso, Moises
Genetic diversity loss in the Anthropocene
Thursday, June 9
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Evolutionary Genetics
Farnitano, Matthew
Hybrid seed inviability maintains species barriers in Diplacus (Mimulus) sect. Eunanus
Wednesday, June 8
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Evolutionary Genetics
Feder, Alison
State-Dependent Evolutionary Phylodynamic Model (SDevo) Infers Boundary-Driven Growth in Hepatocellular Carcinomas
Thursday, June 9
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Evolutionary Genetics
Feng, Siyuan
Genomic diversity and invasion history of Drosophila suzukii
Thursday, June 9
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Population Genetics
Fenton, Eliot
Distinguishing multiple-merger from Kingman coalescence using the two-site frequency spectrum.
Thursday, June 9
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Quantitative Genetics
Ferrare, James
Evolution of Evolvability In Rapidly Adapting Asexual Populations
Thursday, June 9
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Population Genetics
Fine, Adam
An EM algorithm for detecting general diploid selection in time series allele frequency data
Thursday, June 9
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Population Genetics
Fiscus, Christopher
86T
The genetic control of rapid genome content divergence in Arabidopsis thaliana
Thursday, June 9
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Evolutionary Genetics
Fogel, Arielle
27
Merrill
Mating-related barriers to admixture shape ancestry patterns across the baboon genome
Thursday, June 9
9:00 AM - 9:15 AM
Oral
Platform Session #3 Speciation, Hybridization, and Introgression
Fortier, Alyssa Lyn
Extensive Trans-Species Polymorphism at the Major Histocompatibility Complex in Primates
Wednesday, June 8
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Evolutionary Genetics
Fournier-Level, Alexandre
Adaptive significance of flowering time plasticity: synthesising 10 years of Arabidopsis research in the field.
Thursday, June 9
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Evolutionary Genetics
Fridman, Eyal
Online
Tango of Two Genomes: Cytonuclear Interactions Underlying Clock and Growth Robustness in Barley
Tuesday, June 7
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Poster Virtual
Quantitative Genetics
Friedman, Jannice
Genetic variation, covariation, and constraints in the evolution of sexual and clonal reproduction in a plant species
Wednesday, June 8
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Evolutionary Genetics
Fryer, Emily
Exploiting the natural diversity of Caenorhabditis elegans to discover chemical actuators of the nervous system
Wednesday, June 8
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Quantitative Genetics
Fu, Ruirui
36
Merrill
When and how is introgression adaptive? A tale from two widely distributed sympatric oak species
Thursday, June 9
11:35 AM - 11:50 AM
Oral Virtual
Platform Session #3 Speciation, Hybridization, and Introgression
Garner, Austin
Identification of reinforcement mutations with targeted long-read sequencing in Phlox
Wednesday, June 8
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Evolutionary Genetics
Garretson, Alexis
Relationships between germline mutation rates and reproductive success in the collaborative cross mice
Thursday, June 9
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Quantitative Genetics
Garud, Nandita
Evolutionary dynamics in the human gut microbiome from infancy through adulthood
Thursday, June 9
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Population Genetics
Gastonguay, Madeleine
The impact of measurement error in mediation analysis
Wednesday, June 8
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Quantitative Genetics
Gaudinier, Allison
Characterizing Mimulus guttatus adaptation to serpentine soil
Thursday, June 9
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Population Genetics
Gazda, Malgorzata
20
Merrill
Genetic basis of carotenoid coloration in birds.
Wednesday, June 8
3:20 PM - 3:45 PM
Oral
James F. Crow Early Career Researcher Award Finalist Talks
Genetti, Maximilian
Human-Mediated Admixture in South American Neotropical Cats
Wednesday, June 8
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Population Genetics
Gerdes Gyuricza, Isabela
Online
Genotype-by-diet interactions regulate gene expression across multiple tissues in the “Three Bears” mouse models of type II diabetes
Tuesday, June 7
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Poster Virtual
Quantitative Genetics
Ghione, Caleb
Single-cell RNA sequencing identifies a unique set of cells that give rise to a diverse bone found in the mammalian penis
Thursday, June 9
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Evolutionary Genetics
Ghosh, Olivia
Emergent evolutionary forces in spatial models of microbial growth in the human gut microbiota
Wednesday, June 8
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Population Genetics
Gloss, Andrew
The geography of GWAS: Genome-wide association mapping within a local Arabidopsis thaliana population more fully reveals the genetic architecture for defensive metabolite diversity
Thursday, June 9
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Quantitative Genetics
Goldberg, Michael
Online
STR mutation rates do not perfectly track cell divisions but covary with maternal age
Tuesday, June 7
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Poster Virtual
Evolutionary Genetics
Goldman, Doran
Effect of inoculation dose on colonization success in gut-derived microbial communities
Wednesday, June 8
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Evolutionary Genetics
Goldstein, Ilan
Genome-wide detection and quantification of genetic background effects using double-barcoded CRISPRi perturbations
Wednesday, June 8
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Quantitative Genetics
Gopalakrishnan, Shreyas
Understanding the local and global structure of pleiotropy using a yeast cross
Wednesday, June 8
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Quantitative Genetics
Götsch, Hannah
61
Merrill
Response of Quantitative Traits to Directional Selection in Finite Populations
Friday, June 10
11:20 AM - 11:35 AM
Oral Virtual
Platform Session #6 Theory and Methods
Gozashti, Landen
87T
Eukaryote-wide survey suggests unified proximate and ultimate models of de novo intron creation
Thursday, June 9
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Evolutionary Genetics
Greenberg, Anthony
Unreasonably fast estimates of similarity among loci and individuals
Wednesday, June 8
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Quantitative Genetics
Groh, Jeffrey
The temporal and genomic scale of selection against hybrids
Thursday, June 9
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Evolutionary Genetics
Gubaev, Rim
Online
Quantitative and qualitative mapping of loci involved in tocopherol composition and oleic acid content control in Russian sunflower (Helianthus annuus L. ) lines
Tuesday, June 7
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Poster Virtual
Quantitative Genetics
Guerra Amorim, Carlos Eduardo
25
Merrill
Evolutionary consequences of domestication on the selective effect of new mutations in canids
Wednesday, June 8
5:00 PM - 5:15 PM
Oral
Platform Session #2 Genetics of Adaptation
Guerrero, Rafael
65
Merrill
How hybrid incompatibilities agglomerate on gene networks
Friday, June 10
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Oral
Keynote #4 (Session Chairs) and Awards
Gunn, Joseph
Online
A multivariate approach to understanding the genetic basis of reproductive resource allocation
Tuesday, June 7
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Poster Virtual
Evolutionary Genetics
Guo, Bing
Online
Using Tree-Based Identity-By-Descent Segments to Evaluate the Effect of Directional Selection on the Estimation of Recent Effective Population Size and Population Structure in Plasmodium falciparum
Tuesday, June 7
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Poster Virtual
Population Genetics
Guo, Longhua
88W
Island-specific evolution of a sex-primed autosome in the planarian Schmidtea mediterranea
Wednesday, June 8
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Evolutionary Genetics
Gupta, Sonal
Selection on gene expression under salinity stress in Rice
Thursday, June 9
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Population Genetics
Gutenkunst, Ryan
32
Merrill
Demographic History Inference and the Polyploid Continuum
Thursday, June 9
10:35 AM - 10:50 AM
Oral
Platform Session #3 Speciation, Hybridization, and Introgression
Gutierrez Guerrero, Yocelyn
Genomic basis of climatic adaptation and parallel evolution in house mice from North and South America
Wednesday, June 8
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Population Genetics
Haba, Yuki
The genomic status and evolutionary history of Culex pipiens mosquito ecotypes
Thursday, June 9
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Population Genetics
Habibi, Ensieh
Genomics Facilitates Evaluation and Monitoring of McCloud River Redband Trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss stonei)
Wednesday, June 8
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Evolutionary Genetics
Hadi, Maryam
89W
Evolution of the WRKY gene family in Metrosideros
Wednesday, June 8
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Evolutionary Genetics
Haffener, Paige
Using blood group serology and whole genome sequence data to identify malaria-protective variants introduced through admixture in Oman
Wednesday, June 8
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Population Genetics
Haji, Diler
Experimental evolutionary genomics of herbivorous insects on multiple host plant species
Wednesday, June 8
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Evolutionary Genetics
Hale, Joseph
Analysis of ~10,000 CRISPR interference perturbations in a yeast cross
Wednesday, June 8
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Quantitative Genetics
Haller, Benjamin
SLiM 4: Multispecies eco-evolutionary modeling
Wednesday, June 8
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Population Genetics
Hamm, Lauren
90T
Evolutionary dynamics of stress-activated mobile elements in Mimulus guttatus
Thursday, June 9
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Evolutionary Genetics
Hancock, Angela
A two-step adaptive walk rewires nutrient transport in a challenging edaphic environment
Thursday, June 9
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Population Genetics
Hansen, Kasper
Online
Selection inference on epigenetic marks: Implications for the evolution of germline mutation rates
Tuesday, June 7
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Poster Virtual
Evolutionary Genetics
Harringmeyer, Olivia
39
Merrill
Chromosomal inversions shape the genomic landscape of the deer mouse
Thursday, June 9
2:00 PM - 2:15 PM
Oral
Platform Session #4 Genome and Molecular Evolution
Harris, Mariana
Contrasting the tempo and mode of adaptation on the X chromosome and the autosomes in Drosophila melanogaster
Thursday, June 9
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Population Genetics
Hasan, Mahmudul
Digital image processing using alpha-molecules to detect selective sweeps
Thursday, June 9
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Population Genetics
Hazra, Ujani
Polygenic adaptation is not a major driver of disparities in disease mortality across global populations
Wednesday, June 8
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Population Genetics
He, Bin
Online
Parallel Expansion and Divergence of the Hyr/Iff-like (Hil) Adhesin Family in Pathogenic Candida Yeasts
Tuesday, June 7
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Poster Virtual
Evolutionary Genetics
Hegde, Tejashwini
Online
Effect of larval crowding on transcriptomic plasticity across populations
Tuesday, June 7
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Poster Virtual
Evolutionary Genetics
Hein, Kirsten
Identification of drought-adaptive QTL underlying variation in root system architecture in Zea mays
Wednesday, June 8
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Quantitative Genetics
Hernandez, Ryan
4
Merrill
Evolutionary forces shape the genetic architecture of complex traits
Tuesday, June 7
4:45 PM - 5:45 PM
Oral
Welcome and Opening Keynote from Ryan Hernandez
Hibbins, Mark
62
Merrill
Phylogenomic comparative methods: accurate evolutionary inferences in the presence of gene tree discordance
Friday, June 10
11:35 AM - 11:50 AM
Oral Virtual
Platform Session #6 Theory and Methods
Ho, Wei-Chin
Antibiotic treatment affects the effect sizes of spontaneous mutations on bacterial population-growth characters
Thursday, June 9
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Quantitative Genetics
Hoge, Carla
40
Merrill
Recombination patterns in corn snakes suggest a tug of war between PRDM9 and promoter-like features
Thursday, June 9
2:15 PM - 2:30 PM
Oral
Platform Session #4 Genome and Molecular Evolution
Hopkins, Robin
Untangle the quantitative genetics of self and heterospecific pollen rejection during pollen-pistil interactions
Thursday, June 9
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Population Genetics
Howell, Emma
Population genomics of large white-footed mice in the Boston Harbor archipelago
Wednesday, June 8
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Population Genetics
Hsu, Sheng-Kai
The role of sex in evolution: Sexual conflict and Sexual selection
Thursday, June 9
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Evolutionary Genetics
Huang, Yuheng
Online
Species-specific chromatin landscape determines how transposable elements shape genome evolution
Tuesday, June 7
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Poster Virtual
Evolutionary Genetics
Huang, Yung-Fen
Online
Evaluate Breeding Efficiency of Targeted Recombination for Ordinal Traits
Tuesday, June 7
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Poster Virtual
Quantitative Genetics
Hui, Tin-Yu
Online
Predicting the Genetic Signatures of Aestivation and Dry-Season Persistence of Malaria-Transmitting Mosquitoes
Tuesday, June 7
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Poster Virtual
Population Genetics
Hull, Cara
Recreating the mitochondrial endosymbiosis that gave rise to eukaryotes
Thursday, June 9
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Evolutionary Genetics
Jaksic, Ana Marija
Natural genetic modifiers of sensitivity to dopamine-level perturbations in Drosophila melanogaster
Thursday, June 9
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Quantitative Genetics
Jiang, Pengyao
Uncovering natural histories of mutator alleles in budding yeast
Wednesday, June 8
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Population Genetics
Johnson, Kelsey
Online
Expression quantitative trait loci in human milk reveal effects of milk composition on infant and maternal health
Tuesday, June 7
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Poster Virtual
Quantitative Genetics
Johnson-Hagler, Meris
Predicting Antibiotic Resistance Through the Utilization and Comparison of Machine Learning Algorithms
Thursday, June 9
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Evolutionary Genetics
Johri, Parul
Statistical inference in population genomics
Thursday, June 9
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Population Genetics
Kania, Hannah
Killer Yeast: Uncovering the evolutionary history and environmental/genetic underliers to the antimicrobial activity of three core metabolic enzymes in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Thursday, June 9
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Evolutionary Genetics
Karageorgi, Marianthi
Tracking adaptation to seasonal insecticide pressure in Drosophila
Thursday, June 9
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Evolutionary Genetics
Keele, Gregory
Online
A Bayesian model selection approach to mediation analysis
Tuesday, June 7
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Poster Virtual
Quantitative Genetics
Kerdoncuff, Elise
Whole genome sequences of 3,000 individuals from India: Insights into South Asian Population History and Disease
Thursday, June 9
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Population Genetics
Kettelkamp, Sarah
Online
Genome-wide association study of female resistance to male-induced harm in the Drosophila Genetics Reference Panel
Tuesday, June 7
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Poster Virtual
Quantitative Genetics
Khaipho-Burch, Merritt
Elucidating the patterns of pleiotropy and its biological relevance in maize
Thursday, June 9
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Quantitative Genetics
Khost, Danielle
Online
Structural variation in the 6.5 Gb genome of the flowering plant Phlox drummondii
Tuesday, June 7
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Poster Virtual
Evolutionary Genetics
Kim, Minkyu
A fundamental constraint on adaptation of a biological module
Wednesday, June 8
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Population Genetics
Kinsler, Grant
47
Merrill
Fitness variation across subtle environmental perturbations reveals local modularity and global pleiotropy of adaptation
Thursday, June 9
4:15 PM - 4:30 PM
Oral
Platform Session #5 Experimental Evolution
Koenig, Daniel
91T
The genome of shepard’s purse (Capsella bursa-pastoris) and the genetic basis of extreme cosmopolitanism
Thursday, June 9
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Evolutionary Genetics
Kollar, Leslie
Detection of structural variants among inland annual and coastal perennial ecotypes of the yellow monkey flower, Mimulus guttatus
Wednesday, June 8
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Evolutionary Genetics
Kopania, Emily
92W
Rodents of Unusual Sperm: Molecular and Phenotypic Evolution of Male Reproduction in Murine Rodents
Wednesday, June 8
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Evolutionary Genetics
Kowalczyk, Amanda
93W
Complementary evolution of coding and noncoding sequence underlies mammalian hairlessness
Wednesday, June 8
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Evolutionary Genetics
Kramer, Alexander
Treenome Browser: concurrent phylogeny-aware visualization of millions of genomes
Wednesday, June 8
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Evolutionary Genetics
Kreiner, Julia
19
Merrill
Agricultural adaptation of common waterhemp over the last two centuries
Wednesday, June 8
2:55 PM - 3:20 PM
Oral
James F. Crow Early Career Researcher Award Finalist Talks
Kuffler, Lauren
Online
Imputation of 3D genome structure by genetic-epigenetic interaction modeling in mice
Tuesday, June 7
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Poster Virtual
Quantitative Genetics
Kuo, Huan-Yu
A Bayesian filtering method for estimating fitness effects of nascent beneficial mutations from barcode-lineage tracking data
Thursday, June 9
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Quantitative Genetics
Kurbidaeva, Amina
94T
Rice chromosome architecture at nucleosome-level resolution
Thursday, June 9
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Evolutionary Genetics
Lai, Wei-Yun
49
Merrill
Pleiotropy is associated with the parallel gene expression evolution during adaptation to a novel environment
Thursday, June 9
4:45 PM - 5:00 PM
Oral
Platform Session #5 Experimental Evolution
laloum, david
Online
Gene expression noise in a pathway is condition-specific
Tuesday, June 7
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Poster Virtual
Quantitative Genetics
Langdon, Quinn
33
Merrill
Replicate hybrid populations reveal shared genome evolution across multiple species
Thursday, June 9
10:50 AM - 11:05 AM
Oral
Platform Session #3 Speciation, Hybridization, and Introgression
Langmüller, Anna Maria
Fitness effects for Ace insecticide resistance mutations are determined by ambient temperature
Thursday, June 9
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Population Genetics
Large, Christopher
95T
Development across evolutionary time at a single cell resolution in the Caenorhabditis nematodes
Thursday, June 9
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Evolutionary Genetics
Lawrence, Amelia
46
Merrill
Using an Evolve + Resequencing experiment to estimate the strength of selection on candidate genes underlying local serpentine adaptation in Mimulus guttatus
Thursday, June 9
4:00 PM - 4:15 PM
Oral
Platform Session #5 Experimental Evolution
Lee, Grace
42
Merrill
Synergistic epistasis of the deleterious effects of transposable elements
Thursday, June 9
2:45 PM - 3:00 PM
Oral
Platform Session #4 Genome and Molecular Evolution
Lee, Jae-Hyeok
Online
Genome reassembly in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii: A novel approach
Tuesday, June 7
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Poster Virtual
Population Genetics
Lei, Li
Online
Genome-wide comparison of artificially induced mutations and natural variations in Brachypodium distachyon
Tuesday, June 7
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Poster Virtual
Population Genetics
Lemus Vergara, Tzitziki
Online
Interaction of genetic variation and diet on stress resistance in Caenorhabditis tropicalis isolates
Tuesday, June 7
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Poster Virtual
Quantitative Genetics
Leon Apodaca, Ana Victoria
Runs of homozygosity reveal extensive inbreeding among K’gari Island dingoes
Thursday, June 9
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Evolutionary Genetics
Leventhal, Laura
Three range limit hypotheses tested in climate-manipulated common gardens
Wednesday, June 8
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Evolutionary Genetics
Li, Xianran
22
Merrill
Deciphering the mystery of sorghum tannin domestication in Africa: coevolution among sorghum, human, and bird
Wednesday, June 8
4:15 PM - 4:30 PM
Oral
Platform Session #2 Genetics of Adaptation
Li, Xinyi
The impact of background selection on complex traits
Thursday, June 9
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Population Genetics
Lin, Janet Chih-chun
Yeast prions regulate host physiology
Thursday, June 9
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Quantitative Genetics
Lin, Sung-Ya
74T
Coevolution between two essential telomere binding proteins preserves chromosome end-protection
Thursday, June 9
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Evolutionary Genetics
Lindsay, Matthew
Online
Fitness contributions of the Responder satellite in Drosophila melanogaster
Tuesday, June 7
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Poster Virtual
Population Genetics
Link, Vivian
12
Merrill
ARG-based Association Mapping
Wednesday, June 8
11:05 AM - 11:20 AM
Oral
Platform Session 1 Complex Traits
Liu, Xiran
Modeling alignment cost in mixed-membership unsupervised genetic clustering
Wednesday, June 8
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Population Genetics
Lockwood, Brent
The quantitative genetic basis of tolerance to environmental change during early embryogenesis in Drosophila melanogaster
Wednesday, June 8
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Quantitative Genetics
Lohmueller, Kirk
Online
Inference of the proportion of recessive lethal mutations in humans and Drosophila
Tuesday, June 7
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Poster Virtual
Population Genetics
Lokey, Mitchell
Effects of inbreeding, drift, and selection on mutation load in the Florida scrub-jay
Wednesday, June 8
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Evolutionary Genetics
Lopez, Lesly
Effects of isolation by distance on principal components
Thursday, June 9
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Population Genetics
Lopez Hernandez, Jose
Diverse mating phenotypes impact the spread of wtf meiotic drivers in Schizosaccharomyces pombe
Wednesday, June 8
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Evolutionary Genetics
Lou, Runyang
Batch effects in population genomic studies with low-coverage whole genome sequencing data: Causes, detection, and mitigation
Wednesday, June 8
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Population Genetics
Lowry, David
The Genetics and Physiology of Switchgrass Local Adaptation Across North America
Thursday, June 9
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Evolutionary Genetics
Lucas, Sarah
96W
Investigation of convergent evolution with the southern marsupial mole and other subterranean mammals
Wednesday, June 8
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Evolutionary Genetics
Lusk, Daniel
Modularization, minimization, and diversification of the yeast transcription factor repertoire
Wednesday, June 8
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Quantitative Genetics
Ly, Cara
Online
Comparing accuracy of forensic DNA mixture analysis across populations with varying genetic diversity
Tuesday, June 7
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Poster Virtual
Population Genetics
MacPherson, Ailene
16
Merrill
Range expansion promotes introgression upon secondary contact
Wednesday, June 8
1:40 PM - 2:05 PM
Oral
James F. Crow Early Career Researcher Award Finalist Talks
Magana, Joaquin
Ped_slim: a family pedigree toolkit to investigate distant relative misidentification in long-range familial searching
Thursday, June 9
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Quantitative Genetics
Mah, Jonathan
Inference of the demographic history of commensal gut microbes
Wednesday, June 8
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Population Genetics
Mahoney, J. Matthew
A kinship-based approach to learn maximally heritable traits from high-dimensional quantitative assays
Wednesday, June 8
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Quantitative Genetics
Manlik, Oliver
The impact of climate change on parasite infection of bumblebees depends on mtDNA haplotypes of the host
Wednesday, June 8
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Evolutionary Genetics
Marion, Sarah
Genetic Basis of Lethal Alleles in Nature
Wednesday, June 8
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Population Genetics
Márquez, Roberto
The genetic, organismal, and evolutionary origin of color pattern diversity in Phyllobates poison-dart frogs
Wednesday, June 8
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Population Genetics
Marzolino, Jill
Online
The response to selection across hundreds of traits in a century-long barley experiment
Tuesday, June 7
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Poster Virtual
Evolutionary Genetics
Matheson, Joseph
Online
Substitution load imposes a mild constraint on adaptation, with a high proportion of deaths in A. thaliana being selective
Tuesday, June 7
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Poster Virtual
Population Genetics
McAllester, Christopher
Balanced Inversions help maintain sexually antagonistic polymorphism
Wednesday, June 8
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Population Genetics
MCBROOME, JAKOB
97W
Ultra-accurate sequencing unveils early somatic lineage selection in Drosophila melanogaster
Wednesday, June 8
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Evolutionary Genetics
McGaugh, Suzanne
98T
Hybridization underlies localized trait evolution in cavefish
Thursday, June 9
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Evolutionary Genetics
Meir, Zohar
Temporal dissection of meristems differentiation and reprogramming by single-tissue and single-cell transcriptome profiling
Wednesday, June 8
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Quantitative Genetics
Menon, Mitra
Assessing signatures of selection on transposable elements by accounting for non-uniform transposition rate
Wednesday, June 8
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Population Genetics
Meselson, Matthew
Online
Genomic signature of sexual reproduction in a Bdelloid rotifer
Tuesday, June 7
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Poster Virtual
Evolutionary Genetics
Metzloff, Matt
Online
Genome-wide Effects of the Y Chromosome on Gene Expression and Genome Architecture in Drosophila melanogaster
Tuesday, June 7
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Poster Virtual
Evolutionary Genetics
Meyer, Wynn
99T
Identifying molecular evolutionary rate shifts accompanying dietary transitions in mammals
Thursday, June 9
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Evolutionary Genetics
Miller, Anna
Online
Sex-Dependency of Epistatic Interactions in the Hybrid Mouse Diversity Panel
Tuesday, June 7
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Poster Virtual
Quantitative Genetics
Miller, Nicholas
StRoNG Net: Advancing undergraduate opportunities in non-model genome research
Wednesday, June 8
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Science & Society
Milligan, William
7
Merrill
When should we expect adaptation via a highly polygenic response vs selective sweeps?
Wednesday, June 8
9:30 AM - 9:45 AM
Oral
Platform Session 1 Complex Traits
Mirchandani, Cade
A Drosophila Reference Pangenome Graph
Wednesday, June 8
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Evolutionary Genetics
Mishra, Sudhanshu
Online
Detecting poaching hotspots, trade centers and sex-biased killing from tiger seizures: Implication in effective wildlife conservation
Tuesday, June 7
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Poster Virtual
Evolutionary Genetics
Mo, Ziyi
Robust supervised machine learning for population genetic inference with domain adaptation
Wednesday, June 8
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Population Genetics
Monroe, Grey
Online
Origins and evolution of epigenome-mediated mutation bias
Tuesday, June 7
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Poster Virtual
Population Genetics
Moore, Emily
Hotspots of disruption in placental regulatory gene networks reflect a common genetic architecture underlying hybrid placental dysplasia in rodents
Thursday, June 9
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Evolutionary Genetics
Moorjani, Priya
66
Merrill
Timing and causes of evolution of human germline mutation spectrum
Friday, June 10
3:20 PM - 3:50 PM
Oral
Keynote #4 (Session Chairs) and Awards
Morgante, Fabio
9
Merrill
Improving Phenotype Prediction by Learning Patterns of Sharing across Multiple Phenotypes
Wednesday, June 8
10:00 AM - 10:15 AM
Oral
Platform Session 1 Complex Traits
Morrison, Maike
FSTruct: An FST-based tool for quantifying ancestry variability
Thursday, June 9
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Population Genetics
Mostafavi, Hakhamanesh
Why most GWAS hits are not eQTLs
Wednesday, June 8
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Quantitative Genetics
Mulder, Obadiah
An agent-based model of signaling in Bacillus subtilis biofilms
Wednesday, June 8
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Population Genetics
Munasinghe, Manisha
38
Merrill
Critical role of insertion preference for the invasion trajectory of transposons
Thursday, June 9
1:45 PM - 2:00 PM
Oral
Platform Session #4 Genome and Molecular Evolution
Munoz-Ortiz, Astrid
Online
Genetic population description of a liverwort Cheilolejeunea rigidula in the Amazon region
Tuesday, June 7
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Poster Virtual
Population Genetics
Muralidhar, Pavitra
The impact of sexually antagonistic selection on polygenic traits
Thursday, June 9
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Population Genetics
Murphy, Helen
The efficacy of QTL analysis to predict adaptive variation: a test using experimentally evolved populations of yeast
Thursday, June 9
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Evolutionary Genetics
Murray, Connor
The evolutionary history and adaptive divergence of Daphnia pulex
Wednesday, June 8
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Population Genetics
Myburg, Alexander
Online
A pan-genome view of complex trait dissection in Eucalyptus
Tuesday, June 7
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Poster Virtual
Population Genetics
Nallamala, Gautam
Inferring sparse latent structure from genotype-phenotype maps
Wednesday, June 8
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Quantitative Genetics
Nanni, Adalena
Insights into D. melanogaster and D. simulans transcriptome evolution and complexity using transcript distance (TranD)
Wednesday, June 8
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Population Genetics
Nanni, Adalena
Long reads facilitate testing of allele specific expression and estimation of cis- and trans-variance in QTL regions
Thursday, June 9
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Quantitative Genetics
Negi, Ateesha
75T
Distinct genetic mechanism underlining the trait evolution of male-specific wing spot in Drosophila elegans species sub-group
Thursday, June 9
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Evolutionary Genetics
Newell, Daphne
Precisely calculating relative fitness advantage (s) for diverse mutants that provide drug resistance to better inform treatment models
Thursday, June 9
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Quantitative Genetics
Ng'oma, Enoch
Coordinating nutrition and energy allocation in Drosophila melanogaster: Genetic mechanisms and evolution
Thursday, June 9
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Evolutionary Genetics
Nguyen, Tuc
Mapping mitonuclear epistasis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Wednesday, June 8
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Quantitative Genetics
Nilson, Sara
Distangaling genotype-by-environment and maternal effects in breed-specific genomic predictions for growth traits
Thursday, June 9
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Quantitative Genetics
Nordborg, Magnus
26
Merrill
The genetics of epigenetics
Wednesday, June 8
7:30 PM - 8:15 PM
Oral
Keynote #2 Magnus Nordborg
Nwizu, Chibuikem
Inferring mechanisms of population-wide phenotypic shifts in longitudinal single-cell RNA-sequencing experiments
Wednesday, June 8
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Population Genetics
O'Connor, Callan
Dose Response Modeling of In Vitro High Content Screening Identifies Genetic Variants Modulating Sensitivity to Monomethylarsonous Acid Exposure
Thursday, June 9
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Quantitative Genetics
Oneal, Elen
35
Merrill
Testing for a role of parent-offspring conflict in the emergence of postzygotic barriers in Mimulus using a combination of genetic mapping and RNA sequencing analysis
Thursday, June 9
11:20 AM - 11:35 AM
Oral
Platform Session #3 Speciation, Hybridization, and Introgression
Oster, Camille
Life History and Stress Tolerances in Elevation Adapted Populations of Drosophila melanogaster
Wednesday, June 8
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Quantitative Genetics
Ostevik, Kate
Many factors contribute to reproductive isolation between self-pollinating and outcrossing morning glory
Wednesday, June 8
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Quantitative Genetics
Overton, Michael
Upper bound on the mutational burden imposed by a CRISPR-Cas9 gene drive element
Wednesday, June 8
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Evolutionary Genetics
Pallares, Luisa
11
Merrill
Genotype-by-Diet interactions unmask cryptic genetic variants that regulate lifespan in outbred Drosophila
Wednesday, June 8
10:50 AM - 11:05 AM
Oral
Platform Session 1 Complex Traits
Park, Yeonwoo
44
Merrill
Epistatic drift causes gradual loss of predictability in molecular evolution
Thursday, June 9
3:15 PM - 3:30 PM
Oral Virtual
Platform Session #4 Genome and Molecular Evolution
Patel, Roshni
10
Merrill
Genetic interactions drive heterogeneity in causal variant effect sizes for gene expression and complex traits
Wednesday, June 8
10:35 AM - 10:50 AM
Oral
Platform Session 1 Complex Traits
Patel, Roshni
Genetic interactions drive heterogeneity in causal variant effect sizes for gene expression and complex traits
Thursday, June 9
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Quantitative Genetics
Patlar, Bahar
Online
The male ejaculate proteins and their lineage-specific variation in Apis mellifera
Tuesday, June 7
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Poster Virtual
Population Genetics
Patterson, Gilia
Under low dispersal, local competition can cause populations in continuous space to divide into discrete clusters
Thursday, June 9
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Population Genetics
Patton, Austin
Hybridization alters the shape of the genotypic fitness landscape, increasing access to novel fitness peaks during adaptive radiation
Wednesday, June 8
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Evolutionary Genetics
Peede, David
Leveraging Ancestral and Derived Allele Sharing to Infer the Admixture Proportion
Thursday, June 9
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Population Genetics
Pena, Jacqueline
The story behind the strains: Examining the phylogeography of wild yeast from woodlands
Thursday, June 9
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Evolutionary Genetics
Peng, Dandan
Refining Polygenic Score History Estimation from Reconstructed Ancestral Recombination Graphs
Wednesday, June 8
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Population Genetics
Pennings, Pleuni
52
Merrill
Coding and data science programs for every biology student
Thursday, June 9
7:30 PM - 8:15 PM
Oral
Keynote #3 Pleuni Pennings
Sponsored by Ancestry
Pespeni, Melissa
Experimental evolution reveals the synergistic genomic mechanisms of adaptation to ocean warming and acidification in a marine copepod
Wednesday, June 8
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Evolutionary Genetics
Peter, Benjamin
A geometric relationship of F2, F3 and F4-statistics with Principal Component Analysis
Wednesday, June 8
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Population Genetics
Pfennig, Aaron
28
Merrill
Hybrid fitness effects modify fixation probabilities of introgressed alleles
Thursday, June 9
9:15 AM - 9:30 AM
Oral
Platform Session #3 Speciation, Hybridization, and Introgression
Phifer-Rixey, Megan
Plasticity in body size in response to diet among wild derived strains of house mice from the Americas
Thursday, June 9
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Population Genetics
Pipho, Krista
Simulating neutral genetic diversity in P. vivax parasite populations
Wednesday, June 8
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Population Genetics
Pivirotto, Alyssa
Allele ages reveal signature of balancing selection in human populations
Thursday, June 9
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Population Genetics
Piya, Antara Anika
37
Merrill
Predicting evolutionary divergence and parameters of relocated genes from their expression data
Thursday, June 9
1:30 PM - 1:45 PM
Oral
Platform Session #4 Genome and Molecular Evolution
Putra, Andhika
Online
Second time's the charm: adaptive evolution following a prior invasion increases the potential distribution of an invasive weed
Tuesday, June 7
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Poster Virtual
Evolutionary Genetics
Quan, Natalie
Online
A novel high-throughput approach to measure the fitness effects of protein misfolding mutations
Tuesday, June 7
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Poster Virtual
Population Genetics
Ragsdale, Aaron
A heterogeneous landscape of selection and interactions in genes revealed by two-locus statistics
Wednesday, June 8
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Population Genetics
Rand, David
A mitonuclear reality check on the evolutionary significance of Mother’s Curse in Drosophila.
Thursday, June 9
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Evolutionary Genetics
Rehmann, Clara
Location, location, location: Dissecting errors in machine learning prediction of geography
Thursday, June 9
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Population Genetics
Risemberg, Ellen
Quantitative genetic analysis of pathogenic response to SARS-CoV-2 and other coronaviruses in an F2 cross of Collaborative Cross strains
Wednesday, June 8
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Quantitative Genetics
Robinson, Jacqueline
Genomic and population viability analyses predict extinction risk in the most endangered marine mammal, the vaquita (Phocoena sinus)
Thursday, June 9
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Evolutionary Genetics
Rockman, Matthew
Medea elements are on ancient haplotypes but not for the reason you’d think
Thursday, June 9
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Population Genetics
Rodrigues, Murillo
Natural selection and correlated landscapes of diversity in the great apes
Wednesday, June 8
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Evolutionary Genetics
Rodriguez Zapata, Fausto
Genome associations with soil phosphorus availability in sorghum and maize.
Thursday, June 9
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Population Genetics
Rogers, Rebekah
Strong, recent selective sweeps reshape genetic diversity in freshwater bivalve Megalonaias nervosa
Wednesday, June 8
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Population Genetics
Rohlfs, Rori
67
Merrill
Could medical privacy be compromised by associations between forensic loci and the expression levels of neighboring genes?
Friday, June 10
3:50 PM - 4:20 PM
Oral
Keynote #4 (Session Chairs) and Awards
Romero, Elena
Viral load minimally affects the intra-host recombination rate of HIV
Wednesday, June 8
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Evolutionary Genetics
Rönneburg, Tilman
Online
Epistasis within and across chromosomes exposes expression of marginal effects of QTL in the Virginia body weight chicken lines
Tuesday, June 7
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Poster Virtual
Quantitative Genetics
Ross, Joseph
Online
Genetic Architecture and Temporal Analysis of Developmental Delay in Intra-species Caenorhabditis briggsae Hybrids
Tuesday, June 7
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Poster Virtual
Evolutionary Genetics
Ross, Joseph
Online
Integrating genetic incompatibility research and research ethics training in a course-based undergraduate research experience (CURE)
Tuesday, June 7
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Poster Virtual
Science & Society
Ruffieux, Margot
Saccharomyces cerevisiae on the rise: Characterizing domestication of S. cerevisiae for breadmaking
Thursday, June 9
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Evolutionary Genetics
Ruffley, Megan
Genetic constraint of complex traits for drought adaptation in Arabidopsis
Thursday, June 9
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Population Genetics
Runarsdottir, Dagny Asta
Online
Can synergistic pleiotropy explain the low parallelism of temperature mediated gene expression evolution?
Tuesday, June 7
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Poster Virtual
Evolutionary Genetics
Runcie, Daniel
68
Merrill
Uncovering the genetic basis of local adaptation in maize with large-scale multi-environment trials
Friday, June 10
4:20 PM - 4:50 PM
Oral
Keynote #4 (Session Chairs) and Awards
Ruzicka, Filip
Online
Polygenic signals of sexually antagonistic selection in contemporary human genomes
Tuesday, June 7
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Poster Virtual
Population Genetics
Sackton, Timothy
Large-scale comparative population genetics identifies repeated targets of natural selection in birds
Thursday, June 9
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Population Genetics
Said, Iskander
Human populations exhibit correlated abundances and variation of tandem repeat content.
Thursday, June 9
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Population Genetics
Salazar Tortosa, Diego Francisco
Online
Mixture Density Regression reveals frequent recent adaptation in the human genome
Tuesday, June 7
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Poster Virtual
Population Genetics
Salome-Correa, Jose
Genetic Analysis of Segregating Recessive Variation in the Nematode Caenorhabditis becei
Thursday, June 9
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Evolutionary Genetics
Samani, Atoosa
Unravelling the Genetic Architecture of Rolling Behavior in the Domestic Pigeon (Columba livia)
Thursday, June 9
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Quantitative Genetics
Sasaki, Eriko
Online
The genetic basis of inherited DNA methylation variation in Arabidopsis thaliana
Tuesday, June 7
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Poster Virtual
Evolutionary Genetics
Scharf, Andrea
Online
A population dynamics tipping point for aging as a cause of adult death
Tuesday, June 7
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Poster Virtual
Population Genetics
Schloetterer, Christian
Online
Weak pleiotropic effects for natural variation in Drosophila
Tuesday, June 7
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Poster Virtual
Population Genetics
Schrider, Daniel
Allelic gene conversion frequently turns sweeps on single-origin de novo mutations into soft sweeps
Wednesday, June 8
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Population Genetics
Schwartz, Tonia
Merrill
Structure for a Functional Genomics CURE: Comparison of 26 RNAseq pipelines from mapping to functional pathway enrichment using Daphnia’s response to caloric restriction
Thursday, June 9
5:15 PM - 5:30 PM
Oral
Undergraduate Research Experience
Schwartz, Tonia
Evolution of gene expression patterns of paralogous hormones (IGF1 and IGF2) and paralogous receptors (IGF1R and INSR) across amniotes.
Thursday, June 9
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Evolutionary Genetics
Seidman, Daniel
Online
Pedigree reconstruction in the era of many thousands of samples
Tuesday, June 7
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Poster Virtual
Population Genetics
Sethuraman, Arun
Fast Multinomial Clustering of multiallelic genotypes to infer genetic population structure
Wednesday, June 8
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Population Genetics
Sharbrough, Joel
Online
Cytonuclear stoichiometry in the wake of genome duplication
Tuesday, June 7
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Poster Virtual
Evolutionary Genetics
Shastry, Vivaswat
53
Merrill
Improving the estimation of DFE using paired allele frequency and allele age information
Friday, June 10
9:00 AM - 9:15 AM
Oral
Platform Session #6 Theory and Methods
Sianta, Shelley
29
Merrill
Asymmetric introgression between selfer and outcrosser subspecies of Clarkia xantiana across a zone of secondary contact
Thursday, June 9
9:30 AM - 9:45 AM
Oral
Platform Session #3 Speciation, Hybridization, and Introgression
Siddiq, Mohammad
Interplay of structural and regulatory evolution in functional evolution of glycolytic enzymes
Thursday, June 9
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Evolutionary Genetics
Sierra-Martinez, Samantha
Evolved genetic variation due to epistatic mitochondrial-nuclear interactions
Thursday, June 9
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Evolutionary Genetics
Simon, Alexis
The contribution of admixture, selection, and genetic drift to allele frequency change in time series genomic data.
Wednesday, June 8
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Population Genetics
Simons, Yuval
6
Merrill
Shared Features of Complex Trait Architecture Explained by Underlying Selection
Wednesday, June 8
9:15 AM - 9:30 AM
Oral
Platform Session 1 Complex Traits
Skov, Laurits
Genetic insights into the social organization of 13 Siberian Neanderthals
Thursday, June 9
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Population Genetics
Smith, Chris
Inferring spatial population genetic parameters using deep learning
Thursday, June 9
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Population Genetics
Smith, Courtney
Integrative pathway analysis of metabolites reveal genetic architecture of complex traits and disease
Thursday, June 9
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Population Genetics
Smith, Samuel
Online
Enrichment analyses identify shared associations for 25 quantitative traits in over 600,000 individuals from seven diverse ancestries
Tuesday, June 7
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Poster Virtual
Population Genetics
Sokol, Jan
Ancestry-associated selection signatures in Pacific Islanders
Wednesday, June 8
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Population Genetics
Soni, Vivak
A new test of balancing selection and its application to data from humans
Thursday, June 9
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Population Genetics
Srinivasan, Sruthi
Online
TMv01, an active mobile element in the genome of the fern, Marsilea vestita
Tuesday, June 7
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Poster Virtual
Evolutionary Genetics
Steenwyk, Jacob
17
Merrill
An orthologous gene coevolution network provides insight into eukaryotic cellular and genomic structure and function
Wednesday, June 8
2:05 PM - 2:30 PM
Oral
James F. Crow Early Career Researcher Award Finalist Talks
Stetter, Markus
Color adaptation during the repeated domestication of grain amaranth
Wednesday, June 8
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Evolutionary Genetics
Stevison, Laurie
Online
Genome-wide recombination rate plasticity in response to heat stress in Drosophila pseudoobscura
Tuesday, June 7
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Poster Virtual
Evolutionary Genetics
Stratton, Jered
Genetics of behavioral evolution in giant mice from a predator-free island.
Wednesday, June 8
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Evolutionary Genetics
Sugden, Lauren
Online
Deriving Biological Insight from Genome Scans: a Tissue Enrichment Method for Noisy Gene Lists
Tuesday, June 7
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Poster Virtual
Population Genetics
Suni, Sevan
Drivers of dispersal and genetic variation for bee species in a fragmented tropical habitat
Thursday, June 9
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Population Genetics
Szpiech, Zachary
The influence of demographic history and genetic architecture on complex phenotypes via runs of homozygosity
Wednesday, June 8
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Population Genetics
Sztepanacz, Jacqueline
Sexually concoradant and antagonistic genetic variation predicts the evolution of sexual dimorophism over millions of years
Thursday, June 9
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Evolutionary Genetics
Takou, Margarita
Predicting gene expression responses in A.thaliana using natural cis regulatory variation.
Wednesday, June 8
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Quantitative Genetics
Tandon, Dhriti
Online
Investigating patterns of methylation associated with hypoxia in lowland and highland Peromyscus maniculatus populations
Tuesday, June 7
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Poster Virtual
Population Genetics
Tarkington, Jason
Online
Characterizing Pareto fronts: Trade-offs in the yeast growth cycle constrain adaptation
Tuesday, June 7
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Poster Virtual
Evolutionary Genetics
Teterina, Anastasia
14
Merrill
Evolutionary dynamics in simulated gene regulatory networks
Wednesday, June 8
11:35 AM - 11:50 AM
Oral Virtual
Platform Session 1 Complex Traits
Thayer, Rachel
Gene expression and functional co-evolution in the Drosophila female reproductive tract
Wednesday, June 8
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Evolutionary Genetics
Thomas, Gregg
34
Merrill
Molecular and morphological evolution across the most species-rich radiation in mammals
Thursday, June 9
11:05 AM - 11:20 AM
Oral
Platform Session #3 Speciation, Hybridization, and Introgression
Thorpe, Holly
Online
Coevolution is pervasive between unrelated glycosylation pathways and points to potential disease modifiers
Tuesday, June 7
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Poster Virtual
Evolutionary Genetics
Tian, David
Severe Inbreeding and Mutation Load in the Critically Endangered Devils Hole Pupfish
Thursday, June 9
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Evolutionary Genetics
Tijjani, Abdulfatai
Genomic signatures of desert adaptation at gene-rich regions in zebu cattle from the African drylands
Wednesday, June 8
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Evolutionary Genetics
Tintori, Sophia
Nematode genomes reveal a shift in mutation spectrum in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone
Thursday, June 9
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Population Genetics
Tittes, Silas
23
Merrill
The Population Genetics of Convergent Adaptation in Maize and Teosinte
Wednesday, June 8
4:30 PM - 4:45 PM
Oral
Platform Session #2 Genetics of Adaptation
Tran, Linh
Inferring demographic history from allele frequency spectra with multi-layer perceptron regressors
Thursday, June 9
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Population Genetics
Tyler, Anna
Online
Variation in epigenetic state correlates with gene expression across nine inbred strains of mice
Tuesday, June 7
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Poster Virtual
Quantitative Genetics
Valdar, William
Online
Bayesian modeling of skewed X inactivation in genetically diverse mice reveals a novel Xce allele and hidden properties of embryonic composition
Tuesday, June 7
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Poster Virtual
Quantitative Genetics
Valdar, William
Online
Increasing power in inbred strain association mapping by recognizing variance heterogeneity
Tuesday, June 7
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Poster Virtual
Quantitative Genetics
VanWallendael, Acer
The genetics of pathogen and microbiome control in the switchgrass leaf
Wednesday, June 8
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Quantitative Genetics
Velasquez-Zapata, Valeria
Transcriptome-based gene interaction models reveal epistatic relationships in the barley-powdery mildew pathosystem
Thursday, June 9
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Quantitative Genetics
Veller, Carl
Allelic and array size variation at human centromeres
Wednesday, June 8
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Population Genetics
Venega Coradini, Alessandro Luis
Transformation-mediated chromosome synthesis and replacement in eukaryotic cells
Wednesday, June 8
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Evolutionary Genetics
Venkataram, Sandeep
Online
Mutualism-enhancing mutations dominate early adaptation in a microbial community
Tuesday, June 7
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Poster Virtual
Evolutionary Genetics
Voss, Erin
Effects of mating system on the molecular evolution and expression of genes in the male reproductive tract of Peromyscus mice
Wednesday, June 8
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Population Genetics
Ward, Audrey
Online
In-silico cross-contamination affects inference of genetic relationships in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Tuesday, June 7
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Poster Virtual
Evolutionary Genetics
Weber, Jesse
Evolution of immunity to cestode parasites is a pyrrhic victory
Wednesday, June 8
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Evolutionary Genetics
Webster, Amy
57
Merrill
Heritable epigenetic variation facilitates maintenance of genetic variation
Friday, June 10
10:00 AM - 10:15 AM
Oral
Platform Session #6 Theory and Methods
Week, Bob
76W
The role of continuous geography in parasite local adaptation
Wednesday, June 8
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Evolutionary Genetics
Weir, Bruce
Online
Estimation of ibd probabilities for pairs of inbred individuals.
Tuesday, June 7
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Poster Virtual
Population Genetics
Weisman, Caroline
Online
Mixing genome annotation methods in a comparative analysis inflates the apparent number of lineage-specific genes
Tuesday, June 7
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Poster Virtual
Evolutionary Genetics
Weissman, Maya
21
Merrill
Don’t put all your eggs in one basket: what stochastic modeling tells us about bet hedger evolution
Wednesday, June 8
4:00 PM - 4:15 PM
Oral
Platform Session #2 Genetics of Adaptation
Weller, Cory
Chimeragenesis: a method for generating, selecting, and phenotyping gene variant libraries in yeast
Thursday, June 9
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Quantitative Genetics
Whitehouse, Logan
Timesweeper: Detecting positive selection using genomic time series
Wednesday, June 8
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Population Genetics
Widmayer, Samuel
Dose-response and quantitative genetic analyses reveal a complex genetic basis underlying susceptibility to diverse toxicants in C. elegans
Thursday, June 9
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Quantitative Genetics
Williams-Simon, Patricka
Pigmentation in Drosophila melanogaster and the Genetic Correlation to Fitness Traits.
Thursday, June 9
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Quantitative Genetics
Wolff, Richard
Signatures of positive and negative selection in the human gut microbiome
Thursday, June 9
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Population Genetics
Woods, Patrick
Root Pulling Force Across Drought in Maize Reveals Genotype by Environment Interactions and Phosphate Transporter 1-2a as a Candidate Gene
Wednesday, June 8
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Quantitative Genetics
Wooldridge, Brock
The repeated evolution of multiple traits between forest and prairie ecotypes of the deer mouse
Thursday, June 9
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Evolutionary Genetics
Woolfolk, Maya
Genetic and morphological basis of variation in pup vocalization behavior in deer mice
Wednesday, June 8
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Quantitative Genetics
Wright, Kevin
Age and diet interact to shape body weight and lifespan of DO mice
Thursday, June 9
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Quantitative Genetics
Xia, Bo
18
Merrill
The genetic basis of tail-loss evolution in humans and apes
Wednesday, June 8
2:30 PM - 2:55 PM
Oral
James F. Crow Early Career Researcher Award Finalist Talks
Xiong, Tianzhu
Genomic islands of speciation have independent rates of molecular evolution across a butterfly hybrid zone
Thursday, June 9
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Population Genetics
Xu, Frederick
Exploring genetic variation in the sex determination signal in Drosophila melanogaster
Wednesday, June 8
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Quantitative Genetics
Xue, Alexander
Inferring polygenic selection from GWAS summary statistics for multiple traits and populations
Wednesday, June 8
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Population Genetics
Xue, Katherine
Colonization and evolution after antibiotic perturbation in the human gut microbiome
Wednesday, June 8
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Evolutionary Genetics
Ye, Kaixiong
Circulating polyunsaturated fatty acids and COVID-19: a prospective cohort study and Mendelian randomization analysis
Thursday, June 9
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Quantitative Genetics
Yu, Yang
Seasonal plasticity and adaptive fluctuations of gene expressions of D. melanogaster
Thursday, June 9
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Population Genetics
Yuan, Wei
Online
Pervasive Under-Dominance in Gene Expression as Unifying Principle of Biomass Hybrid Vigor in Arabidopsis thaliana
Tuesday, June 7
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Poster Virtual
Evolutionary Genetics
Yunusbayev, Bayazit
Online
Seeking for autoimmunity risk variants with a strong functional effect by pinpointing targets of natural selection
Tuesday, June 7
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Poster Virtual
Population Genetics
Zavala, Elena
Hominin and faunal turnovers identified at Denisova Cave with sediment DNA
Thursday, June 9
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Population Genetics
Zavaleta, Jhony
Do forensic genetic markers compromise medical privacy?
Thursday, June 9
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Population Genetics
ZHANG, Gaotian
Natural variation in C. elegans genomic defense mechanisms mediated by small RNAs
Wednesday, June 8
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Quantitative Genetics
Zhang, Wei
Online
Early stages of butterfly speciation are associated with widespread gene expression divergence in sensory tissues
Tuesday, June 7
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Poster Virtual
Evolutionary Genetics
Zhang, Wenyu
43
Merrill
Tracing the evolutionary dynamics of gene retrocopies in house mouse natural populations
Thursday, June 9
3:00 PM - 3:15 PM
Oral Virtual
Platform Session #4 Genome and Molecular Evolution
Zhou, Dan
Experimental Evolution of Hypoxia Tolerance in Drosophila melanogaster
Wednesday, June 8
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Population Genetics
Zhu, Carrie
Amplification is the primary mode of gene-by-sex interaction in complex human traits
Wednesday, June 8
9:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Poster
Quantitative Genetics
Zhuang, Xuan
Genetic basis of variation in high sugar-induced diabetes-associated traits and development delay in Drosophila
Thursday, June 9
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Poster
Quantitative Genetics
Żukowska, Weronika
Online
Genetic variation of Scots pine in Europe and Asia – traces of glacial refugia and human activities
Tuesday, June 7
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Poster Virtual
Population Genetics