Burns lab alumni will be well represented at next week’s Evolution meetings in Albuquerque. Here is a list of presentations that include former Burns lab members (in bold). There will be 7 past and present Burns lab members at the meeting. Looking forward to reconnecting!

Thu, June 22. 11:45 am, Mesilla / 235; The population genomics and demography of Oceanic swallows suggest multiple independent origins of commensalism in response to increased human land use; Authors: Brian Myers, Amanda Kathryn Hund, Nicholas Friedman, Dency Flenny Gawin, Farah Modh-Taib, Robert Ong, Chamalka de Silva, Sampath Seneviratne, Thilini Thakshila, and Elizabeth Scordato

Thu, June 22, 5:30 pm, Poster Session 1, Ballroom A/B/C; Investigating patterns of selection in commensal and non-commensal populations of Oceanic swallows (Poster Board 63); Authors: Samantha Sudoko, Brian Myers, Elizabeth Scordato

Fri, June 23, 10:30, Galisteo / 110; Characterizing a new avian hybrid zone and sex chromosome divergence between morphologically cryptic wrens in North America; Authors: William Anderson, Erik Funk, Kathryn Grabenstein, Angela Theodosopoulos, Garth M. Spellman, Scott Taylor

Sat, June 24, 5:50 pm, Poster Session 2, Ballroom A/B/C; Investigating signatures of selection in Oceanic swallows using runs of homozygosity (Poster Board 114); Authors: Dylan Zubieta, Elizabeth Scordato, Brian Myers

Sat, June 24, 5:00 pm, La Cienega / 240; Assembling a new squamate tree of life; Authors: Pascal Title, Sonal Singhal, R. Alexander Pyron, Marc Jones, Stephen A. Smith, Dan L. Rabosky

Sun, June 25, 10:00 am, Ruidoso / 220; Replicate geographic transects reveal parallelism in the architecture of reproductive barriers between hybridizing chickadees; Authors: Georgy Semenov, Michael McQuillan, Alex Van Huynh, Mark Robbins, Alana Alexander, Erik Funk, Ben Sonnenberg, Carrie Branch, Virginia Heinen, Vladimir Pravosudov, Zachary Cheviron, Matthew Carling, Tim Roth, Amber M. Rice, Scott Taylor

Lastly, Rosalyn Price-Waldman already presented her talk earlier this month at the virtual Evolution meetings, as part of the Hamilton Award Symposium; Rosalyn has been nominated for the prestigious Hamilton Award:

A hidden layer of achromatic plumage modulates the brightness and saturation of colorful feathers in tanagers and other birds; Authors: Rosalyn Price-Waldman, Jarome Ali, Allison Shultz, Benedict Hogan, Mary Caswell Stoddard