Program

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schedule

🎤 = short talk, ⚡ = lightning talk, 🎙️ = keynote

Time Speaker Affiliation Presentation

8:45 ✅/☕ Registration and Breakfast

9:30 👋 Welcome to SCalE Meeting 2025!

9:45 🎙️ Amy Goldberg UCLA The complex life cycle of malaria explains extreme patterns of deleterious variation and adaptation

10:15 🎤 Miguel Roman UCSD Predictors of Sympatric Speciation across Complex Scenarios of Natural Selection

10:30 🎤 Swetha Ramesh UCLA Pervasive Latent Selection in the Human Noncoding Genome

10:45 ☕ Coffee break

11:15 🎤 Simon Gronen UCR Drought influences selection on microenvironmental trait canalization and developmental stability in rice

11:30 🎤 Feriel Ouerghi USC How should we report genetic matches following an investigative genetic genealogy search?

11:45 🎤 Peter Laurin UCLA Complex multisite adaptations underlie hard and soft sweeps across human gut microbiomes

12:00 🌯 Lunch and Poster Session

1:30 ⚡ Bridget Bickner UCR Eco-evo-devo of the seed size/number tradeoff in Phlox wildflowers

1:35 ⚡ Marie Palanchon UCR Distribution of polygyny-associated haplotypes in an ant social supergene: does a more favorable environment promote evolution of selfishness?

1:40 ⚡ Jonathan Mah UCLA Inference of population demographic history captures differing evolutionary signals based on dataset size

1:45 ⚡ Sneha Chakraborty UCLA Studying the long-term evolutionary dynamics of transposable elements

1:50 ⚡ Ricky Wolff UCLA Gene-specific sweeps are pervasive in gut microbiota

2:00 🎤 Yuheng Huang UCI Transposable element-mediated changes in chromatin states shape mutation rates

2:15 🎤 Renata Pirani UCLA The genetic basis of a colorful signal: the polymorphic dewlap of the slender anole (Anolis apletophallus)

2:30 🎤 Zul Alam UCR How gene flux can break a supergene

2:45 🎤 Kieran Samuk UCR pixy 2.0: Even more unbiased estimation of diversity and divergence in the face of missing data

3:00 🎙️ Joel Sachs UCR Ecological specialization in a rhizobia metacommunity is structured in parallel by adaptation to environmental factors and by host specificity

3:30 🪧 Poster session

4:30 👋 Meeting Ends

POSTER Presentations

🧬 Austin Betancourt-Sanchez UCLA Genetic connectivity and signals of selection across biogeographic barriers of Metacarcinus magister in its native range using whole-genome sequencing (WGS)

🧬 Shirin Nataneli USC TraceAdmix

🧬 Kinza Fatima UCR Adaptation and evolutionary insights among the barley composite crosses

🧬 Daniela Soto UCSB Human-specific splice isoforms contributing to brain evolution

🧬 Maeve Secor USC/NHMLA The effect of feather micro- and nano-structure on plumage sexual dichromatism in Tangara tanagers

🧬 Mark Xu UCI Transposable element population frequencies in Drosophila affinis and Drosophila algonquin

🧬 Max Sprute CSU Northridge Clines, crags, and chromosomes: mapping putatively adaptive variation in S. becki, the island fence lizard

🧬 Tanya Pelayo CSU Northridge Phenotypic plasticity via alternative splicing responses to temperature deviations in soybean flowering genes

🧬 Aiko Abo Dominguez USC/NOAA eDNA can detect Panulirus argus Virus 1 in seawater

🧬 Zita Gao UCI Spatial interactions between transposable elements and pericentromeric heterochromatin induce trans-allelic epigenetic effects

🧬 James Fifer UCSD Evolutionary history of a human specialist mosquito

🧬 Hannah Lee UCI Sex-dependent dietary impacts on the epigenetic silencing of transposable elements

🧬 Natalie Castillo UCSD Admixture mapping of a trait associated with specialization on humans in the mosquito Ae. aegypti

🧬 Gangothri Sivaraj UCR Homoploid hybrid speciation in Penstemons

🧬 Alexandria Koedel USC The interplay between human adaptation and Type 2 diabetes risk in North African populations

🧬 Breanna Takacs UCSB The first organoid model of chimpanzee neural tube formation

🧬 Haein Lee UCSB From genomes to ecosystems: understanding hybridization and ecological success in Carpobrotus

🧬 Trevor Mugoya SDSU svArcher: a reproducible structural variant calling pipeline module for plant genomes

🧬 Rong Guo UCI Transposable elements shape gene expression level and variability through epigenetic effects

🧬 Harsh Girish Shukla UCI Genetic variation within the TE-derived heterochromatin of Drosophila melanogaster

🧬 Leqi Tian USC Re-interpreting Deleterious Variant Burden in the Highly Consanguineous Saudi Arabian Population

🧬 Aina Martinez i Zurita UCLA Detecting adaptation in the gut microbiome

🧬 Natalie Fortunato USC Measuring the performance of gene tree topology reconstruction

🧬 Michael Wasney UCLA Uniform bacterial genetic diversity along the guts of mice inoculated with human stool

🧬 Chenlu Di UCLA The landscape of fitness effects of putatively functional noncoding mutations in humans

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