Program
Smith Buonano Hall
95 Cushing St
Providence, RI 02912
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Monday June 8, 2009
12:00 – 6:00 pm Arrival
For dormitory accommodations, go to Gregorian Quad, 101 Thayer Street, Providence RI
All others can check in at their chosen hotel.
6:00 – 9:00 pm Registration and Opening Reception
Biltmore Hotel, 11 Dorrance Street
Downtown Providence
Tuesday June 9, 2009
8:45 – 9:00 David Rand, Brown University, President of AGA
Introduction and Welcome to the Symposium
Morning Session: Spatial Scales of Environmental Change
Smith Buonanno Hall, Brown University
Session Chair: William Bradshaw, University of Oregon
9:00 – 9:45 Ary Hoffmann, CESAR, University of Melbourne
Clinal variation and environmental change
9:45 – 10:30 Jay Storz, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Adaptive differentiation across altitudinal gradients
10:30 – 11:00 Break – Smith Buonanno Hall
11:00 – 11:05 Wilhemine Key Lecture, Introduction: David Rand
11:05 – 12:00 Johanna Schmitt, Brown University
The genetics of sensing environmental change in Arabidopsis
12:00 – 1:30 Lunch on your own
Afternoon Session: Genetic Analysis of Temperature Stress and Life History
Smith Buonanno Hall, Brown University
Session Chair: Outi Savolainen, University of Oulu, Finland
1:30 – 2:15 William Bradshaw and Christina Holzapfel, University of Oregon
Complications of complexity: Integrating environmental, genetic and hormonal control of insect diapause
2:15 – 3:00 Paul Schmidt, University of Pennsylvania
Adaptive clinal variation for diapause and stress resistance in Drosophila
3:00 – 3:30 Break – Smith Buonanno Hall
3:30 – 4:15 George Gilchrist, William and Mary
Evolution of chromosome inversions in response to climate change
4:15 – 4:30 Morten Olsen, University of Stockholm
Micro-evolutionary effects of annual sea ice dynamics on connectivity and abundance in Arctic ringed seal (Phoca hispida) populations
4:30 – 4:45 Jennifer Urbanski, Georgetown University
Stress resistance and timing of diapause across a latitudinal gradient in the invasive mosquito Aedes albopictus
4:45 – 5:00 Stephen Franks, Fordham University
Genetics of evolutionary changes in flowering time in response to drought
5:00 – 8:00 Dinner: on your own in Providence
Poster session: 8 PM – 11 PM Sidney Frank/ Life Sciences Lobby, Brown University
Wed June 10, 2009
Morning Session: Temporal Scales of Environmental Change
Smith Buonanno Hall, Brown University
Session Chair: Trudy Mackay, North Carolina State University
8:30 – 9:15 Elizabeth Hadly, Stanford University
Paleontological Genetics of Climate Change
9:15 – 10:00 Marco Coolen, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
The post-glacial biota of the Black Sea as revealed by paleogenetics
10:00 – 10:30 Billy D’Andrea, University of Massachusetts
Biomarkers of climate change in Arctic lakes
10:30 – 11:00 Break – Coffee and Posters in Sidney Frank/ Life Sciences Lobby
11:00 – 12:00 Brown University Environmental Change Initiative Lecture
Outi Savolainen, University of Oulu, Finland
Genetics, Phenology and Environmental Change
12:00 – 1:30 Lunch on your own (map of restaurants can be found in the booklet)
Afternoon Session : Environmental Genomics of Natural and Human Stressors
Smith Buonanno Hall, Brown University
Session Chair: Diane Nacci, Environmental Protection Agency
1:30 – 2:15 John Colbourne, Indiana University
Environmental genomics of Daphnia
2:15 – 3:00 Margie Oleksiak, University of Miami
Environmental genomics of adaptation to pollution stress in Fundulus
3:00 – 3:30 Break – Coffee and Posters in Sidney Frank/ Life Sciences Lobby
3:30 – 4:15 Andrew Whitehead, Louisiana State University
Environmental genomics of salinity stress in Fundulus
4:15 – 4:30 Astrid Schmidt-Grene
Ancient DNA in ice cores – paleoecosystems and climate change
4:30 – 4:45 Jeffrey Markert, Environmental Protection Agency
Americamysis bahia: A new laboratory model for conservation genetics in changing environments
4:45 – 5:00 Morgan Kelly, University of California, Davis
An adaptive response to climate change? Geographic variation in thermal tolerance in the intertidal copepod Tigriopus californicus
5:45 - 9:00 Clambake on Narragansett Bay, Blithewold Mansion, Bristol, RI
Vans Depart from Smith Buonano at 5:45
From Biltmore Hotel at 6:00
Thursday June 11, 2009
Morning Session: Genotype by Environment Interactions
Smith Buonanno Hall, Brown University
Session Chair: David Rand, Brown University
9:00 – 9:45 Trudy Mackay, North Carolina University
Systems Genetics and Adaptive Evolution in Drosophila
9:45 – 10:30 Mark Siegel, New York University
Phenotypic robustness and network centrality in yeast
10:30 – 11:00 Break – Smith Buonanno
11:00 – 11:45 Erika Edwards, Brown University
Phylogenetic signature of global change
11:45 – 12:30 Charles Davis, Harvard University
Phylogenetic analysis of climate change in Thoreau’s woods
