Why YOU should go to Evolution 2013!

Hello all,

It's April 25th, 2013, and that means Evolution 2013 is a little less than two month away. Now, a lesser known thing about Evolution meetings is (a) you only have to submit a title unless you're trying for a special student presentation award and (b) you can view everyone's submission as they submit on a public website:

 Evolution 2013 - Presentation Search

ALSO, the organizers have extended presentation deadlines, you still have until TOMORROW (April 26th) to submit your presentation! Still on the fence about whether to go? Well, here's one (cough) short list of reasons why you should go.

Once upon a time, I remember some people who told me I probably wouldn't enjoy my time at Evolution: that the majority of the talks involved genetic evolution. (And I work on an extinct group so...) Well look down and tell me if that's true in 2013.

If you have any interests in paleontology, phylogenetics or macroevolution, you'll find something below of interest, I guarantee it. This is an amazing time to be a young scientist working in this area. Also, we really need to see more paleontology at Evolution! Note well though that many of the Evolution talks given by paleontologists aren't even listed under paleontology: many of us are giving macroevolution, phylogenetics, biogeography or community ecology and evolution.



Here's the list:

A generalized kappa statistic for estimating phylogenetic signal from multivariate data
Dean Adams
http://evo2013.evolutionmeeting.org/engine/search/index.php?func=detail&aid=454

A genomic approach to understanding allopatric speciation in tropical montane birds
Ben Winger and John Bates
http://evo2013.evolutionmeeting.org/engine/search/index.php?func=detail&aid=62

A linear-time algorithm for Gaussian and non-Gaussian trait evolution models.
Ho, Lam; Ane, Cecile
http://evo2013.evolutionmeeting.org/engine/search/index.php?func=detail&aid=51
   
An artifact caused by undersampling optimal trees in supermatrix analyses of locally sampled characters
Pitkin Simmons, Mark; Goloboff, Pablo.
http://evo2013.evolutionmeeting.org/engine/search/index.php?func=detail&aid=98

A new birth-death model recovers the K-Pg mass-extinction event in mammals.
Hoehna, Sebastian
http://evo2013.evolutionmeeting.org/engine/search/index.php?func=detail&aid=1206

Arbor: Comparative Analysis Workflows for the Tree of Life
Harmon, Luke, Baumes, Jeff, Hughes, Charlie, Soberon, Jorge, Specht, Chelsea, Thacker, Robert, Turner, Wes, Lisle, Curtis
http://evo2013.evolutionmeeting.org/engine/search/index.php?func=detail&aid=668

A simple index of the strength of convergent evolution.
Arbuckle, Kevin
http://evo2013.evolutionmeeting.org/engine/search/index.php?func=detail&aid=823

Assembly & early diversification of modern reef fishes.
Price, Samantha, Wainwright, Peter
http://evo2013.evolutionmeeting.org/engine/search/index.php?func=detail&aid=249

Association between colony life-history and polymorphism in Cheilostome br.
Carl Simpson
http://evo2013.evolutionmeeting.org/engine/search/index.php?func=detail&aid=659

A variable rates approach to quantifying the processes underlying trait co-variation.
Smaers, Jeroen
http://evo2013.evolutionmeeting.org/engine/search/index.php?func=detail&aid=654

Bayesian inference of biogeographical histories for hundreds of discrete areas
Landis, Michael; Matzke, Nicholas; Moore, Brian; Huelsenbeck, John
http://evo2013.evolutionmeeting.org/engine/search/index.php?func=detail&aid=194

Bayesian inference of phylogeny from partitioned data
Moore, Brian, Fredrik, Ronquist, McGuire, Jim, Huelsenbeck, John
http://evo2013.evolutionmeeting.org/engine/search/index.php?func=detail&aid=1176

Better interpretation of patterns of trait evolution using a novel reversible-jump method of detecting adaptive regimes from phylogenetic comparative data
Josef Uyeda and Luke Harmon
http://evo2013.evolutionmeeting.org/engine/search/index.php?func=detail&aid=601

Beyond the lower-bound: the fossil record can provide empirically-informed prior distributions on node ages in poorly-sampled groups
Graeme Lloyd, Matt Friedman and Mark Bell
http://evo2013.evolutionmeeting.org/engine/search/index.php?func=detail&aid=1134

Coevolution, diversification, and biogeography of a specialized insect-plant pollination mutualism on oceanic islands
David Hembry
http://evo2013.evolutionmeeting.org/engine/search/index.php?func=detail&aid=553

Constraints on mammalian forelimb development: Insights from developmental disparity
Ross, Darcy; Marcot, Jonathan; Betteridge, Keith; Nascone-Yoder, Nanette; Bailey, Scott; Sears, Karen
http://evo2013.evolutionmeeting.org/engine/search/index.php?func=detail&aid=794

Deflating trees: improving Bayesian branch-length estimates using informed priors
Nelson, Brad, Andersen, John, Brown, Jeremy
http://evo2013.evolutionmeeting.org/engine/search/index.php?func=detail&aid=674

Detecting Genomic Introgression at the Phylogenetic Scale
Eaton, Deren; Ree, Richard
http://evo2013.evolutionmeeting.org/engine/search/index.php?func=detail&aid=538

Distance-based phylogenetic algorithms around a polytomy
Davidson, Ruth; Sullivant, Seth
http://evo2013.evolutionmeeting.org/engine/search/index.php?func=detail&aid=472

Diversification of a diverse lineage of Neotropical rodents (Caviomorpha: Octodontoidea): integrating DNA sequences, fossils, and species traits
Nate Upham and Bruce Patterson
http://evo2013.evolutionmeeting.org/engine/search/index.php?func=detail&aid=406

Duplicate gene evolution on the Y-chromosome: insights from ampliconic genes of Indonesian macaques
Hermina Ghenu, Ben Bolker and Ben Evans
http://evo2013.evolutionmeeting.org/engine/search/index.php?func=detail&aid=875

Dynamic variation in rates of body mass evolution in birds
McEntee, Jay P; Ruhfel, Brad; Burleigh, J. Gordon
http://evo2013.evolutionmeeting.org/engine/search/index.php?func=detail&aid=754

Estimating Phylogeny from microRNA Data: A Critical Appraisal
Thomson, Robert; Plachetzki, David; Mahler, D. Luke; Moore, Brian
http://evo2013.evolutionmeeting.org/engine/search/index.php?func=detail&aid=1203

Evo-devo to Everest: travels with the trilobite time lords
Nigel Hughes
http://evo2013.evolutionmeeting.org/engine/search/index.php?func=detail&aid=571

Evolution and the Levels of Lineage
Matt Haber
http://evo2013.evolutionmeeting.org/engine/search/index.php?func=detail&aid=862

Evolution of desert biotas
John Wiens
http://evo2013.evolutionmeeting.org/engine/search/index.php?func=detail&aid=908

Expeditionary Science in Deep Time: Motor for Paradigm Change
Paul Sereno
http://evo2013.evolutionmeeting.org/engine/search/index.php?func=detail&aid=1104

Experience with maximum likelihood morphometric methods that use phylogenies
Joe Felsenstein
http://evo2013.evolutionmeeting.org/engine/search/index.php?func=detail&aid=229

Exploring Divergence and Convergence in the Hyperdiverse Myrmicine Ants
Ward, Philip; Schultz, Ted; Fisher, Brian; Brady, Sean
http://evo2013.evolutionmeeting.org/engine/search/index.php?func=detail&aid=1287

Exploring the pelagic abyss
Karen Osborn
http://evo2013.evolutionmeeting.org/engine/search/index.php?func=detail&aid=458

Founder-event speciation dramatically improves likelihoods and alters parameter inference in Dispersal-Extinction-Cladogenesis (DEC) analyses
Nicholas Matzke
http://evo2013.evolutionmeeting.org/engine/search/index.php?func=detail&aid=1242

Fossils as terminals: a total-evidence analysis to estimate angiosperm divergence date
Magallon, Susana, Doyle, James
http://evo2013.evolutionmeeting.org/engine/search/index.php?func=detail&aid=852

Freeloader to free-living: lineage diversification and morphological evolution of the megadiverse marine bivalve clade Galeommatoidea
Li, Jingchun; Ó Foighil, Diarmaid; Strong, Ellen
http://evo2013.evolutionmeeting.org/engine/search/index.php?func=detail&aid=182

From 'Bigmessidae' to Merulinidae: integrating molecules and morphology to resolve the systematics of scleractinian corals.
Huang, Danwei; Smith, Nathan; Budd, Nancy
http://evo2013.evolutionmeeting.org/engine/search/index.php?func=detail&aid=74

Genetic correlates of morphological diversity in Costa Rican army ants
Winston, Max; Moreau, Corrie
http://evo2013.evolutionmeeting.org/engine/search/index.php?func=detail&aid=35

Geometric morphometrics for analysis of any type of symmetry: Methods and biological applications
Savriama, Yoland; Klingenberg, Christian Peter; Neustupa, Jiří; Gómez, José María; Francisco, Perfectti
http://evo2013.evolutionmeeting.org/engine/search/index.php?func=detail&aid=952

How clades expand in size/shape space: integrating fossil and Recent data to evaluate the role of clade age, species richness and position in morphospace
Shan Huang and David Jablonski
http://evo2013.evolutionmeeting.org/engine/search/index.php?func=detail&aid=803

How cryptic is cryptic diversity? Machine learning approaches to fine scale variation in the morphology of Emys marmorata.
Smits, Peter D; Angielczyk, Kenneth D; Parham, James F
http://evo2013.evolutionmeeting.org/engine/search/index.php?func=detail&aid=425

How do measures of "signal" relate to patterns of traits distributed on a phylogenetic tree?
Forrestel, Elisabeth J.; Donoghue, Michael 
http://evo2013.evolutionmeeting.org/engine/search/index.php?func=detail&aid=1241

How good is good enough? - Taxonomy and phylogeny in evolutionary analyses.
Laura Soul, Graeme Lloyd and Matt Friedman
http://evo2013.evolutionmeeting.org/engine/search/index.php?func=detail&aid=825

How to quantify the magnitude and significance of convergent evolution
C. Tristan Stayton
http://evo2013.evolutionmeeting.org/engine/search/index.php?func=detail&aid=957

Identifying hidden rate changes in the evolution of a binary morphological character: the evolution of plant habit in campanulid angiosperms
Beaulieu, Jeremy; O'Meara, Brian C.; Donoghue, Michael 
http://evo2013.evolutionmeeting.org/engine/search/index.php?func=detail&aid=1127

Indirect defensive traits and lineage diversification rates in plants
Weber, Marjorie; Agrawal, Anurag
http://evo2013.evolutionmeeting.org/engine/search/index.php?func=detail&aid=36

Integrating Phylogeny, Climatic Niche, and Biogeographic History to Explain Growth Form Evolution in the Spine-shield Euphorbias (E. sect. Euphorbia, Euphorbiaceae)
Dorsey, Brian; Berry, Paul
http://evo2013.evolutionmeeting.org/engine/search/index.php?func=detail&aid=115

Late Quaternary climate velocity, contemporary environmental gradients, and marine biodiversity patterns on coral reefs
Sbrocco, Elizabeth J.
http://evo2013.evolutionmeeting.org/engine/search/index.php?func=detail&aid=716

Losing to the Red Queen I: a tale of two rates.
Quental, Tiago Bosisio; Marshall, Charles
http://evo2013.evolutionmeeting.org/engine/search/index.php?func=detail&aid=504

Losing to the Red Queen II:  when non-equlibrial processes trump diversity dependence
Marshall, Charles; Quental, Tiago Bosisio
http://evo2013.evolutionmeeting.org/engine/search/index.php?func=detail&aid=1108

Lung evolution in Amniotes
Colleen Farmer
http://evo2013.evolutionmeeting.org/engine/search/index.php?func=detail&aid=1210

Lying through your teeth: saturation and non independence in morphological data, and what to do about it
Davalos, Liliana M; Velazco, Paul M; Warsi, Omar M; Smits, Peter D; Simmons, Nancy B
http://evo2013.evolutionmeeting.org/engine/search/index.php?func=detail&aid=646

Macroevolutionary dynamics of diversification across extant bats
Shi, Jeff; Badgley, Catherine; Rabosky, Daniel
http://evo2013.evolutionmeeting.org/engine/search/index.php?func=detail&aid=217

Macroevolutionary patterns of trait diversification in social insects: a phylogenetic analysis of caste evolution using turtle ants
Scott Powell
http://evo2013.evolutionmeeting.org/engine/search/index.php?func=detail&aid=834

MCDUSA: A Monte Carlo method for more reliable detection of lineage-specific rates of diversification
Michael May and Brian Moore
http://evo2013.evolutionmeeting.org/engine/search/index.php?func=detail&aid=1140

Missing data lead to holes in the tree of life
Cabezas, Patricia; Drew, Bryan; Gazis, Romina; Swithers, Kristen; Deng, Jiabin; Rodriguez, Roseanna; Katz, Laura; Crandall, Keith; Hibbett, David; Soltis, Douglas
http://evo2013.evolutionmeeting.org/engine/search/index.php?func=detail&aid=512

Models of species diversification and the age-richness relationship paradigm
Sánchez-Reyes, Luna Luisa; Magallón, Susana
http://evo2013.evolutionmeeting.org/engine/search/index.php?func=detail&aid=417

Morphology and exploitation in ray-finned fishes using crowdsourced data
Jonathan Chang, Dan Rabosky, Mike Alfaro
http://evo2013.evolutionmeeting.org/engine/search/index.php?func=detail&aid=1293

Multi-Dimensional Optimization - A Mathematic Model For Evolution
Leng, Xuguang
http://evo2013.evolutionmeeting.org/engine/search/index.php?func=detail&aid=87

New graphical methods for visualizing comparative data on phylogenies
Liam Revell
http://evo2013.evolutionmeeting.org/engine/search/index.php?func=detail&aid=954

Node-based analysis of clade distribution
Catherine Graham
http://evo2013.evolutionmeeting.org/engine/search/index.php?func=detail&aid=1179

Open Tree of Life: large-scale phylogenetic data synthesis
Karen Cranston
http://evo2013.evolutionmeeting.org/engine/search/index.php?func=detail&aid=586

Patterns of phenotypic correlations and integration in animals and plants
Conner, Jeffrey K; Cooper, Idelle; La Rosa, Raffica; Perez, Samuel; Royer, Anne
http://evo2013.evolutionmeeting.org/engine/search/index.php?func=detail&aid=323

Phylogenetic ANCOVA: The study of adaptation and phenotypic radiation when combining continuous and categorical traits
Fuentes, Jesualdo; Martins, Emilia
http://evo2013.evolutionmeeting.org/engine/search/index.php?func=detail&aid=740

Phylogenomics offers insights into hemichordate evolution
Cannon, Johanna; Kocot, Kevin; Santos, Scott; Swalla, Billie; Halanych, Ken
http://evo2013.evolutionmeeting.org/engine/search/index.php?func=detail&aid=1014

Sexual dichromatism and speciation rate in birds
HUANG, HUATENG; Rabosky, Daniel
http://evo2013.evolutionmeeting.org/engine/search/index.php?func=detail&aid=488

Tempo of diversification across a 900-species muroid-rodent phylogeny; what do different methods tell us?
Schenk, John, Steppan, Scott
http://evo2013.evolutionmeeting.org/engine/search/index.php?func=detail&aid=234

Testing irreversibility/Dollo's law using ancestral state reconstruction: How hard is it?
David Swofford
http://evo2013.evolutionmeeting.org/engine/search/index.php?func=detail&aid=1130

Testing the strength of evolutionary correlations between dental morphology and diet in extant Carnivora
Sam Hopkins and Sam Price
http://evo2013.evolutionmeeting.org/engine/search/index.php?func=detail&aid=1285

The discovery and documentation of convergent evolution in the morphology and mechanics of turtle shells
C. Tristan Stayton
http://evo2013.evolutionmeeting.org/engine/search/index.php?func=detail&aid=645

The evolution of cichlid craniofacial diversity
Matthew McGee, Sam Borstein, Peter Wainwright
http://evo2013.evolutionmeeting.org/engine/search/index.php?func=detail&aid=1233

The evolution of ecological specialization in birds
Oswald, Jessica A.; Burleigh, J. Gordon
http://evo2013.evolutionmeeting.org/engine/search/index.php?func=detail&aid=298

The evolution of neopilionid harvestmen and a new, putative Gondwanan relic from New Caledonia
Krentzel, Dallas; Cokendolpher, James
http://evo2013.evolutionmeeting.org/engine/search/index.php?func=detail&aid=660

The Fossilized Birth-Death Process: A Coherent Model of Fossil Calibration for Bayesian Divergence Time Estimation
Tracy Heath, John Huelsenbeck and Tanja Stadler
http://evo2013.evolutionmeeting.org/engine/search/index.php?func=detail&aid=193

The Genomic Nature of Linnaean Genera
Masalia, Rishi R.; Barker, Michael
http://evo2013.evolutionmeeting.org/engine/search/index.php?func=detail&aid=339

The genome of the big-eyed arboreal ant Pseudomyrmex gracilis
Ben Rubin and Corrie Moreau
http://evo2013.evolutionmeeting.org/engine/search/index.php?func=detail&aid=524

The Impact of Time-Scaling Methods on Phylogenetic Comparative Methods in the Fossil Record
David Bapst
http://evo2013.evolutionmeeting.org/engine/search/index.php?func=detail&aid=149

The inference of basal snake phylogenetic relationships: The importance of combining molecular, morphological, and fossil data
Harrington, Sean
http://evo2013.evolutionmeeting.org/engine/search/index.php?func=detail&aid=1150

The major features of plant trait evolution, or: how I learned to stop worrying and love the model
Pennell, Matthew; Cornwell, William; Harmon, Luke
http://evo2013.evolutionmeeting.org/engine/search/index.php?func=detail&aid=935

The Signal and the Noise: Why we're still searching for resolution of deep phylogenies
Showers Corneli, Patrice
http://evo2013.evolutionmeeting.org/engine/search/index.php?func=detail&aid=17

Tracking the evolution of fur color patterns in the short-tailed opossum (Monodelphis: Didelphidae): common ancestry or independent evolution?
Pavan, Silvia; Jansa, Sharon; Voss, Rob
http://evo2013.evolutionmeeting.org/engine/search/index.php?func=detail&aid=559

When are missing data problematic for phylogenetic estimation from phenotypic data sets?
April Wright and David Hillis
http://evo2013.evolutionmeeting.org/engine/search/index.php?func=detail&aid=231

Why do species not adapt but go extinct?
Bokma, Folmer
http://evo2013.evolutionmeeting.org/engine/search/index.php?func=detail&aid=1187

Wing shape evolution in social wasps and phylogenetic signal.
Perrard, Adrien, Baylac, Michel, Carpenter, James M., Villemant, Claire
http://evo2013.evolutionmeeting.org/engine/search/index.php?func=detail&aid=326


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... And last but not least, the three presidential speeches:

The dechronization of E. coli:  A 25-year love story
Richard Lenski
http://evo2013.evolutionmeeting.org/engine/search/index.php?func=detail&aid=847

Speciation and latitude
Dolph Schluter
http://evo2013.evolutionmeeting.org/engine/search/index.php?func=detail&aid=1142

Systematic biology two decades after Snowbird 1993 and w(h)ither the species tree?
Jack Sullivan
http://evo2013.evolutionmeeting.org/engine/search/index.php?func=detail&aid=1212


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Okay guys, now tell me about all the amazing talk submissions I missed, cause I know I must have missed a bunch!

Also, go submit your own talk title! Go make the list above out-dated in the next 24 hours! Get to it!

-Dave