Lots of Burns lab members past and present will be represented at the upcoming joint meeting of the American Ornithologists’ Union and Cooper Ornithological Society in Chicago. Here is a full list of presentations authored or co-authored by past or present Burns lab members*. Looking forward to seeing everyone!

Wednesday, 14 August 2013
Symposium 1. Grand Ballroom. The assembly of the North American avifauna.
s1.8 14:30 The temporal and spatial dynamics of speciation during the New World nine-primaried oscine radiation. DANIEL RABOSKY, Dept. Ecol. & Evol., Univ. Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, B. M. WINGER, Committee Evol. Biol., Univ. Chicago, Chicago, IL, I. J. LOVETTE, Lab. Ornithol., Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY, F. K. BARKER, Dept. Ecol., Evol. & Behav., Univ. Minnesota, St Paul, MN, K. J. BURNS*, Dept. Biol., San Diego State Univ., San Diego, CA, J. KLICKA, Dept. Biol., Univ. Washington, Seattle, WA, and S. M. LANYON, Dept. Ecol., Evol. & Behav., Univ. Minnesota.

Session 3A. Wabash Room. Systematics
54 16:45  Phylogeography and signatures of pathogen-mediated selection using genome-wide diachronic comparisons in the House Finch (Haemorhous mexicanus).
ALLISON J. SHULTZ*, Dept. Organ. Evol. Biol., Mus. Comp. Zool., Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA, ALLAN J. BAKER, Dept. Nat. Hist, Royal Ontario Mus., Dept. Ecol. Evol. Biol., Univ. Toronto, Toronto, ON, GEOFF E. HILL, Dept. Biol. Sci., Auburn Univ., Auburn, AL, PAUL M. NOLAN, Dept. Biol., The Citadel, Charleston, SC, and SCOTT V. EDWARDS, Dept. Organ. Evol. Biol., Mus. Comp. Zool., Harvard Univ.

Thursday, 15 August
Poster Session
390 Origin and biogeographic history of the family Trogonidae. WILLIAM M MAUCK III*, JOEL L. CRACRAFT, Dept. Ornithol., Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., New York, NY, PETER HOSNER and ROBERT G. MOYLE, Dept. Ecol. & Evol. Biol. and Biodiversity Inst., Univ. Kansas, Lawrence, KS.

Friday, 16 August 2013
Session 7C. Chicago Room. Systematics
139 10:30 Diversification of tanagers (Thraupidae), the largest radiation of Neotropical songbirds. KEVIN J. BURNS*, ALLISON J. SHULTZ*, PASCAL O. TITLE* and NICHOLAS A. MASON*, Dept. Biol., San Diego State Univ., San Diego, CA.

Session 8B. Crystal Room. Systematics
151 13:30 Phylogeography and conservation genetics in the morphologically variable Bell’s Vireo. LUKE B. KLICKA*, KEVIN J. BURNS*, Dept. Biol., San Diego State Univ., San Diego, CA, and BARBARA E. KUS, US Geol. Surv., Western Ecol. Res. Center, San Diego, CA.

Saturday, 17 August 2013
Symposium 10. Grand Ballroom. The extended specimen: emerging frontiers in collections-based ornithological research.
s10.5 10:30 Combining museum and media collections to study multimodal sexual signaling and acoustic adaptations in tanagers (Thraupidae). NICHOLAS A. MASON*, KEVIN J. BURNS*, Dept. Biol., San Diego State Univ., San Diego, CA, and ALLISON J. SHULTZ*, Dept. Organ. Evol. Biol., Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA.