Lockdown Seminars
There will be biweekly seminars on Zoom by Heliconius researchers. Please contact Joana Meier (jm2278(at)cam.ac.uk) or Luca Livraghi (miles.livraghi(at)gmail.com) if you would like to be added to the email list for the talk announcements.
The talks start at 4 pm UK time.
Schedule
11 May 2020: Luca Livraghi (U Cambridge, UK)
The gene cortex controls scale colour identity in Heliconius
25 May 2020: Joe Hanly (George Washington U, USA)
Investigation of wing pattern mutants in a domesticated population of Heliconius melpomene
8 June 2020: Kelsey Byers (U Cambridge, UK)
QTL for potential wing and genital pheromone compounds show clustering across the genome
22 June 2020: Krzysztof Kozak (Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama)
Population genomics of large mimetic radiations
6 July 2020: Melanie Brien (U Sheffield / U Cambridge, UK)
The genetics and evolution of structural colour in Heliconius butterflies
20 July 2020: Nate Edelman (U Harvard, USA)
The molecular basis of hybrid female sterility in Heliconius pardalinus subspecies
3 August 2020: Nicol Rueda (U del Rosario, Colombia)
Importance of environmental variables in the distribution and natural hybridization of Heliconius butterflies.
7 September 2020: Wyatt Toure (McGill U, USA / STRI, Panama)
Heliconiini butterflies can learn time-dependent reward associations
21 September 2020: Erika Pinheiro de Castro (U Cambridge, UK)
Phenotypic plasticity in chemical defence allows butterflies to diversify host use strategies
5 October 2020: Matteo Rossi (LMU, Munich, Germany)
Genetics of visual mate preference in Heliconius butterflies
19 October 2020: Gabriela Montejo-Kovacevich (U Cambridge, UK)
Local adaptation in Heliconius butterflies (beyond mimicry)
2 November 2020: Alexander Hausmann (LMU, Munich, Germany)
Heliconius mating behaviours affected by light environment during early stages of divergence
16 November 2020: Francesco Cicconardi (U Bristol, UK)
A Flock of Genomes: New and revised genomic resources for 58 species of Heliconiini
30 November 2020: Lucie Queste (U York, UK / LMU, Munich, Germany)
Flight and wing shape in the Heliconiini
14 December 2020: James Lewis (Cornell U, USA)
Adaptive diversification of red wing color patterns in Heliconius erato
25 January 2021: Camille Le Roy (CNRS, France)
Convergent morphology and divergent phenology: unravelling the coexistence of mimetic Morpho butterfly species
8 February 2021: Paul Jay (CNRS, France)
The evolution of supergenes: insight from mimicry polymorphism in Heliconius numata
22 February 2021: Kathy Darragh (U Davis, USA)
Pheromones in Heliconius butterflies: Chemical ecology, genetics and behaviour
8 March 2021: Steven van Belleghem (U Puerto Rico)
Selection and isolation define a heterogeneous divergence landscape between hybridizing Heliconius butterflies
22 March 2021: Simon Martin (U Edinburgh, UK)
Formation, reformation and deformation of structural barriers to gene flow in Danaus butterflies
19 April 2021: Joe Hanly (George Washington U, USA)
Speciation genomics in North American Colias butterflies
10 May 2021: Stephen Montgomery (U Bristol, UK)
Mushroom body expansion in Heliconius butterflies
17 May 2021: Brian Counterman (Auburn University, USA)
Genetics of sexually dimorphic UV on Dogface wings
7 June 2021: Kay Lucek (U Basel, Switzerland)
When species meet again – secondary contact zones of Erebia butterflies
14 June 2021: Mahul Chakraborty (UC Irvine, USA)
The big and the small of it: Comparing complete, diploid assemblies of vulnerable and common butterfly species exhibiting dramatic genome size variation
28 June 2021: Yuttapong Thawornwattana (Harvard U, USA)
Full likelihood analysis of divergence and introgression in the erato-sara group of Heliconius
12 July 2021: Erica Westerman (University of Arkansas, USA)
Mechanisms underlying behavioral variation in Heliconius and Bicyclus butterflies
23 August 2021: Adriana Briscoe (UC Irvine, USA)
True UV color vision in a female Heliconius butterfly with two UV opsins
20 September 2021: Anniina Mattila (U Helsinki, Finland)
Dissecting the ecological, evolutionary, life-history and molecular influencers of cyanogenic chemical defense variation in Heliconius erato