These Yoder Lab presentations bring Joshua trees to Montréal for the Third Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology
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The Third Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology — a collaborative meeting of the American Society of Naturalists, the European Society for Evolutionary Biology, the Society of Systematic Biologists, and the Society for the Study of Evolution — begins its in-person component in Montréal, Québec in less than two weeks. Three members of the Yoder Lab will be presenting new and ongoing work, and you can catch their talks in the following sessions of the just-released schedule:
- Grad student Pryce Millikin will present his progress on modeling the climate niche of the yucca moths that pollinate Joshua trees as part of the symposium session “Challenging the status quo: exploring how species interactions respond to human change”, on Saturday the 27th at 1615h in room 520C;
- PI Jeremy Yoder will present brand-new results identifying the weather conditions that prompt Joshua tree’s mass-flowering “masting” events as part of the symposium session “Understanding global change through natural history collections”, on Sunday the 28th at 1700h in room 516B; and
- Postdoc Lea Richardson will present her work with the Joshua Tree Genomic Inventory data in the Ecology III session, on Tuesday the 30th at 1430h in room 523AB
PI Jeremy Yoder will also tell a bit of the story behind the science he’s presenting as part of the meeting’s Story Collider event on Sunday the 28th at 1900h in room 517A.