Houston Regional Ecology and Evolution Student Symposium--PROGRAM

5 May 2017
102 HSC, University of Houston
8:45-9:45 Registration and Breakfast
Presenters should load slides and hang posters during this time.
9:45-10:00 Opening remarks
10:00-10:45 Oral presentations session 1
session chair: Hannah Locke
10:00  Anna Hawkins, University of Houston
Plant-soil feedback becomes positive with increasing water availability in coastal prairie species
10:15  Christopher Holland, Texas A&M University
Pheromonal mechanisms of reproductive isolation in two hybridizing species of Xiphophorus
10:30  Jae Hak Son, University of Houston
Sex determining genes have a greater effect on sexually differential expressions than sex chromosomes in the house fly, Musca domestica L.
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10:45-11:15 Coffee and snack break
11:15-12:00 Oral presentations session 2
session chair: Jason Tarkington
​11:15  Fan Li, University of Houston
Responses of a tidal freshwater marsh plant community to constant and pulsed saline intrusion
11:30  Kristen Dimond, University of Houston
Molecular evolution of the sex determination locus in asexual Tetrahymena
11:45  Pablo Delclos, Texas A&M University
Neurogenetic framework of learned female mating preferences in the swordtail fish Xiphophorus birchmanni
12:00-1:00 Lunch

​1:00-2:00 Poster Session
Poster presenters should stand by their posters at this time.  (See list of posters below.)
2:00-3:00 Oral presentations session 3
session chair: ​Michael Miller
2:00    Shuo Zhang, University of Houston
Polymorphism in P-element repressor alleles
2:15    Patrick Clay, Rice University
Within-host priority effects alter pathogen co-existence via frequency dependency
2:30    Wei-Ting Lin, University of Houston
Modeling the relationship between body size and the sensitivity to habitat loss in wild bee communities
2:45    Kedar Karkare, University of Houston
Exploring the relationship between epistasis and selection
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3:00-3:30 Snack break​
3:30-4:30 Keynote lecture
Dr. Tom Miller, Rice University
Population dynamics of plants in stochastic environments
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4:30-5:00 Award presentation and closing remarks
​POSTERS
 
1. Violet Ndeda, Texas A&M University
Phylogenetic diversity of the genus 'Barbus' (cyprinidae) in Lake Victoria drainage system in Kenya
 
2. Caitlin Curry, Texas A&M University
Microsatellite primer redesign for lion genetic analysis
 
3. Michael Miller, University of Houston
Maintaining cooperation in the social amoeba
 
4. Hao Zhang, University of Houston
Better than sex? The evolutionary causes and consequences of successful asexuality in Tetrahymena ciliates
 
5. Erin Novak, University of St. Thomas
University of St. Thomas plants pocket prairie to increase biodiversity and Catholic identity
 
6. Jaweria Jaweria, University of Houston
The effect of temperature on the regulation of genes in the housefly sex determination pathway
 
7. Jason Tarkington, University of Houston
The role of phenotypic assortment and sex in Tetrahymena thermopila adaptation and evolution

8. Siao Ye, Rice University
The roles of endosymbionts and hosts in response to stress—a study using Green Hydra as the model system

9. Emily Schultz, Rice University
Native insect herbivory suppresses invasion and complex population dynamics of weeds across heterogeneous environments

10. Lauren Howe-Kerr, Rice University
Assessing the role of symbiont community structure in the stress response of an ecosystem engineering coral

11. Shannon Carter, Rice University
Shifts in phenological distributions alter numerical overlap of interacting species

12. Marion Donald, Rice University
​Fungal Endophyte effects on grass host demography and population dynamics