Montreal Eco-Evo Symposium (MEES) 2019 Program

9:00 AM-9:15 OPENING TALK - Andrew Hendry (15 min)

5 min Intro to MEES
10 min: World’s Greatest Eco-Evo Experiment

LARSSON AND POLLOCK LABS - Vertebrate Palaeontology & Macroevolution

9:15 AM-9:20 Alexandre Demers-Potvin (5 min)
Prayers for fossil mantises answered in a Cretaceous site located
near Schefferville, Labrador

9:20 AM-9:35 Pollock Lab - Laura Pollock (15 min)

A Macro view of Eco-Evo

PELLETIER LAB - Evolutionary Demography and Conservation

9:35 AM-9:40 Joanie Van de Walle (5 min)
Maternal care in the context of high hunting pressure

9:40 AM-9:45 Sandrine Beaumont-Courteau (5 min)

Eco-evolutionary dynamics in marine mammals

HARGREAVES LAB - Ecology and Evolution of Range Limits, Dispersal Evolution

and Biotic Interactions
9:45 AM-10:00 Anna Hargreaves (15 min)
Is selection stronger in the tropics (and do you want to help me
find out)?

10:00 AM-10:05 Cole Larsen (5 min)

Miniaturizing species distributions to understand evolving range
limits

10:05 AM-10:10 Emma Dawson (5 min)

Geographic patterns in pollen limitation

AUBIN-HORTH AND BERNACHEZ LABS - Integrative Biology of Behavior and

Genomics and Conservation of Aquatic Resources
10:10 AM-10:25 Nadia Aubin-Horth (15 min)
The evolution of host behaviour manipulation by its parasite

10:25 AM-10:30 Florent Sylvestre (5 min)

Genomic of sexual conflicts

10:30 AM-10:35 Sann Delaive (5 min)

Two sexes, one genome: Sharing has never been so complicated
10:35 AM-10:50 COFFEE BREAK

HENDRY AND BARRETT LABS - Eco-evolutionary Dynamics and Experimental

Genomics
10:50 AM-10:55 Barrett Lab - Timothy Thurman (5 min)
Movement of a Heliconius hybrid zone over 30 years: a Bayesian
approach

10:55 AM-11:00 Hendry Lab - Grant Haines (5 min)

Refracted form and function in flattened fish: 2D projections of 3D
structures alter interpretations phenotypic parallelism in
threespine stickleback.

11:00 AM-11:05 Hendry Lab - Daniel Reyes (5 min)

The use of Tribulus cistoides as a model for Eco-Evo experiments

GREEN AND SKELLY LABS - Population Dynamics, Ecology and Conservation

Genetics of Amphibians
11:05 AM-11:20 Green Lab - David Green (15 min)
Animal dispersal: stay, go, whatever

11:20 AM-11:25 Green Lab - Jessica Ford (5 min)

The net effects of tadpoles on an ecosystem

11:25 AM-11:30 Skelly Lab - David Skelly (15 min)

Long term studies of wood frog ecology and evolution

11:30 AM-11:35 Skelly Lab - Yara Alshwairikh (5 min)

Metabolic Responses to Predation Risk in Wood Frogs (Rana
sylvatica)

11:35 AM-11:40 Skelly Lab - Andis Arietta (5 min)

Predicting evolutionary rescue using genotype-phenotype-
environment comparisons

11:40 AM-12:10 DISCUSSION BLOCK 1- (Break out into 2 groups)

Topic 1: Lets think BIG: A new framework for Studying Macro-
Eco-Evo
Topic 2: Evolution and the future world

12:10 PM-13:00 LUNCH BREAK

FESTA-BIANCHET LAB - Animal Ecology: Reproductive Strategies, Population
Dynamics and Conservation of Mammals
13:00 PM-13:15 Marco Festa-Bianchet (15 min)
Flexible reproductive strategies of kangaroo females.

13:15 PM-13:20 Charles-Alexandre Plaisir (5 min)

Juvenile survival of Eastern grey kangaroos in an unpredictable
seasonal environment

13:20 PM-13:25 Wendy J. King (5 min)

Adoption in eastern grey kangaroos: a consequence of
misdirected care?

JOLY, BELL AND RICCARDI LABS - Evolution of Reproductive Systems,

Speciation and Hybridization in Plant Genetics
13:25 PM-13:40 Joly Lab - Simon Joly (15 min)
What role for ecological generalists in evolution?

13:40 PM-13:45 Joly Lab - Marion Leménager (5 min)

Intraspecific corolla shape variation is greater in generalist than
specialist species in the Antillean Gesneriaceae

13:45 PM-13:50 Joly Lab - Julie Faure (5 min)

Does it fit, can I drink? A comparison of Gesneriaceae flower
shape and the beak shape of their hummingbird pollinators in the
Greater Antilles

13:50 PM-13:55 Bell Lab - Mark Jewell (5 min)

Local adaptation and genetic variance in fitness of an asexual
plant

13:55 PM-14:10 Ricciardi Lab - Anthony Ricciardi (15 min)

Origins matter: Alien versus native species as drivers of recent
extinctions

KELLY AND MONTIGLIO LABS - Behavioural & Evolutionary Ecology

14:10 PM-14:15 Kelly Lab- Roxanne Gagnon (5 min)
Characterization of the Northern barrens tiger beetle population
and its habitat at Isle-Aux-Allumettes, Qc, by capture-mark-
recapture

14:15 PM-14:20 Montiglio Lab -Maxime Fraser-Franco (5 min)

Using an online multiplayer videogame to quantify natural
selection on hunting behaviour
14:20 PM-14:25 Montiglio Lab - Hannes Schraft (5 min)
Evolutionary and ecological implications of web architecture in
spiders

14:25 PM-14:40 COFFEE BREAK

CLOUDOPS, POISOT, AND URBAN LABS - Landscape and Community Ecology &
Evolution
14:40 PM-14:45 CloudOps - Tristan Kosciuch (5 min)
Landscape ecology in remote sensing and machine learning

14:45 PM-14:50 Poisot Lab - Mathilde Besson (5 min)

Community evolution in the light of species interactions

14:50 PM-14:55 Urban Lab - Chris Nadeau (5 min)

Adaptation overcomes competitive dominance and alters
community assembly

BEISNER LABS - Eco-Evo in Aquatic Systems

14:55 AM-15:00 Beisner Lab - Vincent Fugère (5 min)
Title: Shrinking plankton? Temperature-size relationships in
hundreds of species of freshwater algae and crustaceans.

ABOUHEIF LABS - Eco-Evo Devo

15:00 AM-15:15 Ehab Abouheif (15 min)
A critique for Eco-Evo or why Eco-Evo is only 2/3 complete
without the Devo.

15:15 PM-16:00 DISCUSSION BLOCK 2- (Break out into 2 groups)

Topic 1: Lets think BIG: A new framework for Studying Macro-
Eco-Evo
Topic 2: Evolution and the future world

16:00 PM- BEER AND FOOD DOWNSTAIRS