#Atwood2024 day 2 kicks off with Dr. Kara Layton’s talk on the use of phylogenetic tools in understanding nudibranch evolution!

Ella Martin talks about how urban socioeconomic variation influences ecology and evolution! 🌆

HuiMei Yang talks about genome size variation in Harpellales!

Arthur Leung presents work on the different effects of CO2 on leaf anatomy in plants! 🌱 🍃

Jessie Wang talks about how community assembly in the plant microbiome is shaped by host feedbacks! 🪴 🔄

Maia Dall’Acqua takes us back in time by constructing a “Speciation Clock” for nematodes! 🪱🕐

Our #Atwood2024 rising star in Evolution Luis Zaman talks about Complexity, creativity and unnatural histories! 🧫

Elise Bull presents her work using Pan-GWAS to identify mobile genetic elements associated with convergent evolution!

Bianca Sacchi talks about Y chromosome degeneration at different timescales! 🧬

Youngseo Jeong investigates the mechanisms behind vaccine-driven virulence evolution of malaria parasites! 🦟

Dr. Kuangyi Xu answers the question: When does stronger selection increase or reduce the probability of evolutionary rescue?

Chris Brimacombe walks us through the complexity of everyone's favorite network: food webs!😋 #Atwood2024

Did you catch the 2nd round of elevator pitches?? 🙌🙌🕺

It's time for the highlight of #Atwood2024! Dr. Mercedes Pacual presents evidence for frequency-dependent selection and the diversity in host-pathogen systems🦟🦠

Congratulations to our elevator pitch winners, Noam Harris and Meredith Omer!! #Atwood2024

#Atwood2024 ends with Grad Appreciation Night! That's all from us this year🫶 See you all again next year for #Atwood2025🙌🏻🌿🌱

Beyond happy to have presented at Moved to @eebatwood.bsky.social on how seasonal complexity can build an understanding of flowering time in Clarkia pulchella! 🌸 Next stop Evolution! Huge thanks to Tara McGruder for her amazing illustrations and @BontragerLab for her continued mentorship!

🚨 We’ve officially moved to Bluesky for #Atwood2025! 🌐✨ Join us there for the latest updates and more. See you there! bsky.app/profile/eebatw…

‼️7 days to go‼️ Join us on Bluesky at #Atwood2025 for all kinds of exciting talks from our University of Toronto EEB folks and our amazing keynote speakers for this year: Dr. Tadashi Fukami 🌻🐦, Dr. Brandon Ogbunu 🦠, and Dr. Kaitlyn Gaynor 🌎 See ya'll there!✨ bsky.app/profile/eebatw…