2016 Keynote speakers
Rosemary Gillespie
Professor and Schlinger Chair in Systematic Entomology, Department of Environmental Science and Essig Museum of Entomology, University of California, Berkeley
Talk title: Island time and the interplay between ecology and evolution in species diversification
Websites: Evolab and Dimensions in Biodiversity
Image credit: George Roderick
Tadashi Fukami
Associate Professor, Department of Biology, Stanford University
Talk title: Embracing historical contingency in community assembly
2016 Presenters
Rachel Germain
Graduate student, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto
Talk title: Species coexistence: macroevolutionary relationships and the contingency of historical interactions
Robin Hopkins
Assistant Professor, Harvard University and Arnold Arboretum
Talk title: The causes and consequences of natural selection for speciation
Website: The Hopkins Lab
Image credit: David Des Marais
Melissa Kemp
Postdoctoral Fellow, National Science Foundation and Harvard University
Talk title: Community assembly (and disassembly) dynamics as revealed by the fossil record
JP Lessard
Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Concordia University, Montreal
Talk title: Improving phylogenetic and trait-based inference of biotic interactions with
process-based species pool definitions
Website: Community Ecology & Biogeography Lab
D. Luke Mahler
Assistant Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto
Talk title: The assembly of island lizard faunas through diversification on macroevolutionary adaptive landscapes
Website: The Mahler Lab
Andy Rominger
Graduate student, University of California, Berkeley
Talk title: The statistical mechanics of biodiversity in evolving island communities
Megan Rúa
Postdoctoral Fellow, National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS)
Talk title: Variation in plant and fungal traits indicate mycorrhizal mediated selection in Pinus radiata
Image credit: Luke Walker
