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)

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