Be sure to check out today’s Urban Evolution talks and posters at SICB!
| Time | Room/Poster # | Title | Authors |
| 8:00 a.m. – 8:15 a.m. | Marquis A | Introduction to the symposium: Cities as a natural experiment | Alaasam, V.; Snead, A;, Winchell, K. |
| 8:15 a.m. – 8:30 a.m. | Marquis A | Does urban life and small population size lead to accumulation of deleterious mutations? | Caizergues, A.E. |
| 8:30 a.m. – 8:45 a.m. | Marquis A | Phenotypic correlations in response to urbanization: a test case for constraints to adaptation | Prileson, E. |
| 8:45 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. | Marquis A | Patterns of raccoon cranial variation under domestication and urbanization | Sluka, C.M., Clementz, M.T.; Benson-Amram, S.; Ben-David, M. |
| 8:45 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. | A703 | Physiological and behavioral effects of chemical contraception on fecal urban pigeons | Wright-Lichter, J.; Donohoe, L.; Partan, R.; Rutberg, A. |
| 9:00 a.m. – 9:15 a.m. | Marquis A | Uncovering the drivers of temperature-dependent sprint performance in urban lizards | Vaughn, P.; Rummel, A.; Campbell-Staton, S.C. |
| 9:15 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. | Marquis A | Hot Spots of Evolution: Decoding the Spotted Lanternfly’s Thermal Ecology | Meng, F.; Alaasam, V.; Winchell, K. |
| 9:30 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. | Marquis A | Boulevard of broken frogs: patterns of local (mal)adaptation in polluted ponds | Arounsack-Colon, S.; Brady, S. |
| 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. | Marquis A | S1 Workshop: Cities as a natural experiment: how organisms are finding different solutions to the same urban problems | Snead, A.; Alaasam, V.; Winchell, K. |
| 11:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. | A704 | Do Darwin’s finch mothers mediate the effects of urbanization on nest parasite pressure? | Perez, L.L.; Contreras, J.; Goldberg, K.; Mena, G.; Soldo, A.; Ugarte, A.; Chaves, J.; Knutie, S.A. |
| 1:30 p.m. – 1:45 p.m. | Marquis A | Lessons from Wall Lizards: What We’ve Learned and What’s Next in Urban Morphological Evolution | Gangloff, E.J.; Vaughn, P.; Head, A.A.; Winchell, K. |
| 1:45 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. | Marquis A | Behavioral tolerance and physiological responses to human proximity in the rufous-collared sparrow | González-Lagos, C.; Ricote, N.; Arriagada, M.; Corvalan, B.; Maldonado, K. |
| 2:00 p.m. – 2:15 p.m. | Marquis A | The genetic architecture of pollution adaptation in Atlantic killifish | Rios, C.; Clark, B.W.; Karchner, S.; Aluru, W.; Whitehead, A.; Hahn, M. |
| 2:15 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. | Marquis A | Big Bad Bugs in the Big City: Effects of Urbanization on Invasive Spotted Lanternfly Body Size | Levine, B.A.; Moffitt, A.; Patel, A.; Mendez, R.A. |
| 2:30 p.m. – 2:45 p.m. | Marquis A | The genomics of urbanization in house mice | Phifer-Rixey, M.; Clark, R.; Kasprowicz, A.; Giancarli, S.M.; Kupchella, S.; Lacy, L.; Mallalieu, N.; Balman, M.; Munshi-South, J. |
| 2:45 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. | Marquis A | Roundtable Discussion: Cities as Natural Experiments | Winchell, K.; Snead, A.; Alaasam, V. |
| Poster | P1-203 | Characterizing anthropogenic materials in cavity-nesting songbirds’ nests in suburban and rural area | Melvin, H.; Uehling, J.J. |
| Poster | P1-206 | Trashy birds: a comparison of the use of anthropogenic materials in nests across species | Gordon, A.; Foltz, S.L. |
| Poster | P1-192 | Assessing anthropogenic chemical bioaccumulation in blue crab tissues in the Cape Fear region | Angeli, N.; Covi, J.A. |
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Olivia is a graduate student in Kristin's lab at NYU. She studies the impacts of urbanization on the diet and gut microbiome of birds!
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