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

Time Speaker Affiliation Presentation

8:00 ✅/☕ Registration and coffee (with some light food)

8:55 🎤 Chris Fiscus UCI Welcome to SCalE

9:00 🎤 Jordan Cahoon USC Imputation Efficacy Across Global Human Populations

9:15 🎤 Danielle Alarid ASU Towards an asynchronous Course-based Undergraduate Research Experience (CURE) framework: A pilot case study in remote genomics research

9:30 🎤 Peiwei Chen Caltech Two piRNA pathway elaborations tame intragenomic threats in opposite sexes

9:45 🎤 Daniel Pierce UCR Long-term Stability of a North American Avian Hybrid Zone

10:00 ⚡ Leila Lin UCI Prevalent fast evolution of proteins involved in heterochromatin functions

10:02 ⚡ Bryan Dinh USC Population-specific Recombination Maps Reduce False Positive Findings in Genomic Scans of Adaptations

10:04 ⚡ Soumyadeep Chatterjee UCR Tracking the SWS1 gene across bee hummingbirds

10:06 ⚡ Jon Mah UCLA Across-host population genetics analysis of common commensal gut microbiota suggests varied trends in demographic history

10:08 ⚡ Matthew Liu UCR Genome-wide association studies of courtship-related morphology in Anna’s hummingbirds

10:10 ⏱️ schedule catch up

10:15 ☕/🪧 Coffee + Posters (Even)

10:45 🎙️ Kate Ostevik & Rebeca Hernández Gutiérrez UCR Uncovering Genomic Signatures of Sexual Selection in Flowering Plants

11:20 🎤 Irene Liao UCLA Putative candidate genes underlying nectary development in monocots through comparative single nuclei RNA sequencing

11:35 🎤 Yuheng Huang UCI Epigenetic silencing of transposable elements contributes to variation in the recombination landscape

11:50 🎤 Daohan Jiang USC Decoupling of mRNA and protein abundances over macroevolutionary timescales

12:05 🌯/😋 Catered lunch (Tacos N Co), networking, and chance to view posters

13:35 🎤 Mariana Harris UCLA Enrichment of hard sweeps on the X chromosome across six Drosophila species

13:50 🎤 Marie Palanchon UCR Supergene-associated polygyny in ants: do small queens cheat?

14:05 🎤 Ryan Traband UCR Multiomics analysis uncovers connections between  DNA variants, metabolites, and morphology in Citrus leaves

14:20 🎤 Dandan Peng USC Evaluation of the Ancestral Recombination Graph Estimation Methods for Estimating Population-mean Polygenic Score Histories

14:35 🎤 Bryan Clifton UCI Early functional evolution of a defective duplicate: Divergence of paralog transcriptional regulation prior to fixation within the species-specific tandem gene expansion Sdic

14:50 ⚡ Jill Marzolino UCR The response to selection across hundreds of traits in a century-long barley experiment

14:52 ⚡ Sam Mansour UCR Phylogenetic inference from low-coverage whole-genome sequences in bee hummingbirds

14:54 ⚡ Evan Shimota UCR Genetics of social structure and sex ratio in the ant Formica exsecta

14:56 ⚡ Michael Wasney UCLA Microbiome diversity along the tract of the gut

14:58 ⚡ Richard Wolff UCLA Long-term maintenance of fine-scale genetic diversity in the human gut microbiome

15:00 ⏱️ schedule catch up

15:05 ☕/🪧 Coffee + Posters (Odd)

15:35 🎤 Harsh Shukla UCI Genetic variation in recalcitrant repetitive genomic regions in Drosophila melanogaster

15:50 🎤 Alexandra Sumarli UCR Exploring genomic divergence between two sympatric stickleback ecotypes

16:05 🎤 Jennifer McIntyre UCI Diet-dependent epigenetic silencing of transposable elements

16:20 🎙️ Soojin Yi UCSB Supergenes, Steroid, and Balancing Selection in White-Throated Sparrows

17:00 Dinner on your own at University Town Center