Monday June 28
Overview
PDT | EDT | Concurrent Track 1 | Concurrent Track 2 |
8:45 AM | 11:45 AM | Ecology, Diversity, and Life History - Session 1 | Molecular Evolution or Evo Devo |
10:45 AM | 1:45 PM | Behavior - Session 1 | Molecular Phylogenetics and Systematics - Session 1 |
12:30 PM | 3:30 PM | Ecology, Diversity and Life History - Session 2 | Molecular Phylogenetics and Systematics - Session 2 |
Concurrent Track 1: Ecology, Diversity, and Life History - Session 1
Moderator: Andrew Gordus
Student competition talks are marked with an asterisk.
PDT | EDT | Presenter / Title |
8:45 AM | 11:45 AM | Laurel Lietzenmayer* - Resource allocation in the development of dimorphic male sexually selected traits in the jumping spider, Maevia inclemens |
9:00 AM | 12:00 PM | Sara Wilmsen* - Differential Scaling of Spider Groups (Order: Araneae) |
9:15 AM | 12:15 PM | Gabriel Greenberg-Pines* - The energetic intake of web building spiders is determined by spider size, not web geometry |
9:30 AM | 12:30 PM | Anna Holmquist* - The role of historical legacies in shaping spider communities across two mountain ranges in Sulawesi, Indonesia |
9:45 AM | 12:45 PM | Emma Canaday - A Song of Fire and Water: Evaluating the Dispersal Potential of the Cave-obligate Pseudoscorpion Hesperochernes mirabilis |
10:00 AM | 1:00 PM | Alexis Dodson - Motley views: evolutionary impact of audience perception on morphology in the jumping spider, Synemosyna formica |
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Concurrent Track 2: Molecular Evolution or Evo Devo
Moderator: Jonathan Coddington
PDT | EDT | Presenter / Title |
8:45 AM | 11:45 PM | Jesus Ballesteros - The developmental origins of scorpion pectines revealed by differential gene expression analyses |
9:00 AM | 12:00 PM | Jeffrey Cole - Molecular evolution of Inhibitor Cystine Knot toxins in wandering spiders (Araneae: Ctenidae) |
9:15 AM | 12:15 PM | Carlos Santibanez-Lopez - Phylogenomic analysis of 100 scorpion venom gland transcriptomes reveals the origins of toxicity |
9:30 AM | 12:30 PM | Prashant Sharma - How daddy-long-legs make their long legs: Ten years of research in the first harvestman model system |
9:45 AM | 12:45 PM | Salma Bashir* - Sequence determinants of substrate specificity in brown recluse venom toxins |
10:00 AM | 1:00 PM | Alexander Berry* - Altered gene expression in response to predator stress in a wolf spider Pardosa milvina (Araneae: Lycosidae) |
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Concurrent Track 1: Behavior - Session 1
Moderator: Gustavo de Miranda
PDT | EDT | Presenter / Title |
10:45 AM | 1:45 PM | Abel Corver* - Towards a computational ethology of web-making: quantifying movement sequences underlying stages of web-building in Uloborus diversus Not recorded |
11:00 AM | 2:00 PM | Andreas Fischer* - Sexual conflict in false black widow spiders – Aging females manipulate mate choice by males Not recorded |
11:15 AM | 2:15 PM | Mikayla Glick* - The effects of resmethrin and methoprene on the salt-marsh wolf spider Pardosa littoralis |
11:30 AM | 2:30 PM | Robin Glover* - Microhabitat selection as a function of web type and forest succession stage in spiders |
11:45 AM | 2:45 PM | Jake Godfrey* - Aggressive females might counteract male pace of life tradeoffs |
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Concurrent Track 2: Molecular Phylogenetics and Systematics - Session 1
Moderator: Ivan Magalhães
PDT | EDT | Presenter / Title |
10:45 AM | 1:45 PM | Tierney Bougie* - Dynamics of hybridization in a complex unimodal hybrid zone between members of the Habronattus americanus subgroup (F. Salticidae) |
11:00 AM | 2:00 PM | Daniela Candia-Ramirez* - Diversity and evolution of a new genus of tiger rump tarantulas of southern Mexico and Central America (Araneae: Theraphosidae: Theraphosinae) |
11:15 AM | 2:15 PM | Erik Ciaccio* - Cryptic diversity and the importance of biogeography: preliminary results in a genus of a mygalomorph spider (Antrodiaetus, Antrodiaetidae) from the Pacific Northwest |
11:30 AM | 2:30 PM | Luis C. Hernandez Salgado* - New distributional records of Phidippus species for Mexico and Baja California |
11:45 AM | 2:45 PM | Karina Silvestre Bringas* - Understanding the evolutionary history of the Aphonopelma marxi species group across the Madrean Archipelago “Sky Islands” biodiversity hotspot |
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Concurrent Track 1: Ecology, Diversity, and Life History - Session 2
Moderator: Camilo Mattoni
PDT | EDT | Presenter / Title |
12:30 PM | 3:30 PM | Guilherme Oyarzabal - Friend and Foe? Ecosystem management and functional diversity of spiders |
12:45 PM | 3:45 PM | Jennifer L. Apple - Habitat, Life History, Phenology, and Behavior of a Non-Native Ant-Mimicking Spider, Myrmarachne formicaria |
1:00 PM | 4:00 PM | Leticia Aviles - The ecology of spider sociality – A Spatial Model |
1:15 PM | 4:15 PM | Bram Vanthournout - SPIN-CITY: urbanisation effects on colour, size and web building in Araneus diadematus |
1:30 PM | 4:30 PM | Emmanuel Campuzano - Spatial and seasonal patterns of the RTA clade ground-dwelling spiders in two pine-oak forest remnants from Mexico |
1:45 PM | 4:45 PM | Dariana Guerrero - Contribution to the life history of jumping spider Paraphidippus aurantius (Araneae: Salticidae) of the Ecological Reserve of Pedregal de San Ángel, Ciudad de México |
Concurrent Track 2: Molecular Phylogenetics and Systematics - Session 2
Moderator: Marc Milne
PDT | EDT | Presenter / Title |
12:30 PM | 3:30 PM | Mathura Tharmarajan* - Origin and diversification of free-living stick spiders of Sri Lanka including the description of four new species of Rhomphaea L. Koch, 1872 and two new species of Neospintharus Exline, 1950 |
12:45 PM | 3:45 PM | Gustavo de Miranda - Microendemics of Madagascar: diversity and systematics of Madagascan Schizomida |
1:00 PM | 4:00 PM | Daniela Ble Carrasco - Revisión taxonómica y delimitación de especies mexicanas de Pelegrina Franganillo, 1930 (grupo furcata) (Araneae: Salticidae) |
1:15 PM | 4:15 PM | Nicolas A. Hazzi - Molecular phylogeny of the tropical wandering spiders (Ctenidae) and the evolution of the eye conformation in the RTA Clade |
1:30 PM | 4:30 PM | Siddharth Kulkarni - Phylogenomics illuminate the evolution of orb webs, tracheal systems and the biogeographic history of the world’s smallest orb-weaving spiders |
1:45 PM | 4:45 PM | Jayaraman Dharmaraj - First time DNA barcoding of spiders from The Nilgiris, Tamilnadu, India |