“Expanding Horizons in Lepidoptera Research” McGuire Center Webinar Series
2024, Spring
Speaker: Maël Doré, Museum für Naturkunde – Leibniz Institute for Research on Evolution and Biodiversity, Berlin, Germany. “Beyond Müller’s mimicry model: perceptual maps support continental-scale convergence in wing patterns of sympatric Neotropical butterflies” Watch Recording
Speaker: Yash Sondhi, McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA. “Visual gene evolution and light entrapment in butterflies and moths” Watch Recording
2023, Fall
Speaker: Marianne Espeland, Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change, Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig, Bonn, Germany. “Target capture and whole genome sequencing for Lepidoptera phylogenomics: Museum specimens and beyond”
Speaker: Neil Rosser, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, and Princeton University, Princeton, USA. “Hybrid speciation in Heliconius butterflies” Watch Recording
Speaker: Ryan St Laurent, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC. “Phylogenomics reveals a new moth family and establishes a complete reclassification of Prominents (Notodontidae)” Watch Recording
2023, Spring
Speaker: Nick Grishin, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Biophysics and Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas. “Insights from large-scale butterfly genomics”
Speaker: Nick Dowdy, Milwaukee Public Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. “Recent advances in tiger moth phylogenomics and implications for the evolution of anti-bat sonar jamming”
Speaker: Felix Sperling, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. “The species problem: Is it one butterfly species or two?”
Speaker: Christopher Lawrence, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, USA. “Making models and mining mimics”
2022, Fall
Speaker: Dave Lohman, Department of Biology, The City College of New York, New York, USA. “Island biogeography of mimetic butterflies in the Indo-Australian Archipelago”
Speakers: Pasi Sihvonen and Leidys Murillo Ramos, Finnish Museum of Natural History, Helsinki, Finland. “24,000 reasons to study geometrid moths: an overview of diversity, phylogeny and classification”
Speaker: Matt Forister, Department of Biology, University of Nevada, Reno, USA. “Finding their way through the Anthropocene: diverse stressors impacting the diverse butterfly fauna of western North America”
Speaker: Oskar Brattström, School of Biodiversity, One Health & Veterinary Medicine, University of Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom. “Past and present responses in African butterflies to changing climates”
Speaker: Pável Matos-Maraví, Laboratory of Molecular Ecology and Phylogenetics, Biology Centre, CAS, Institute of Entomology, Branišovská, Czech Republic. “The origin and evolution of butterflies in tropical America”
2022, Spring
Speaker: Sean Ryan, Exponent, San Mateo, CA, USA. “Citizen Science as a Powerful Tool for Expanding Lepidoptera Research in a Rapidly Changing World”
Speaker: David Wagner, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, USA. “Insect decline in the Anthropocene: Death by a thousand cuts”
Speaker: Vojtěch Novotný, Department of Zoology, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, Czech Republic. “The ecology of caterpillars and their parasitoids in tropical rainforests: a Papua New Guinean experience”
Speaker: Erica Henry, School of Biological Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, USA. “Insect conservation in an uncertain future”
Speaker: Niklas Wahlberg, Department of Biology, Lund University, Sweden. “Lepidoptera phylogenomics and the uses of museomics”
2021, Fall
Speaker: Chris Jiggins, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. “Convergent evolution in butterflies: from chemicals to colour patterns”
Speaker: Swanne Gordon, Department of Biology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, USA. “Maintaining diversity in nature: Lessons from an aposematic moth”
Speaker: Antonia Monteiro, Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore (NUS)/Yale-NUS College, Singapore. “The developmental origin and evolution of a novel complex trait: butterfly eyespots”
Speaker: Andrei Sourakov, McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA. “From Automeris to Zebra Longwings: probing Lepidoptera diversity with hybridization and wing-pattern manipulation experiments”
2021, Spring
Speaker: Callum Macgregor, Energy and Environment Institute, University of Hull, Kingston-upon-Hull, UK. “What can butterflies and moths teach us about conserving nature on a warming planet?”
Speaker: Arnaud Martin, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA. “The genetic basis of color patterning in butterfly wings.”
Speaker: Adriana Briscoe, School of Biological Sciences, University of California, Irvine, USA. “Sizing up the small and the large: Reference genomes for butterflies on the extreme ends of genome size.”
Speaker: Robert D. Reed and Anyi Mazo-Vargas, Departments of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, and Entomology, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA. “How butterflies make their wing patterns.”
Speakers: Andre Freitas, Karina L. Silva-Brandão, Eduardo P. Barbosa, Mario A. M. Uribe, Patricia E. Gueratto, Luísa L. Mota, and Simeão S. Moraes, Universidade de Campinas, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil. “LABBOR: The Lepidoptera Lab at the University of Campinas, Brazil.”
Speaker: Jeffrey Marcus and Melanie Lalonde, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. “The Chronicles of Junonia: Evolutionary travels in space and time in an emerging butterfly model system.”
Speaker: Fabien Condamine, Institut des Sciences de l’ Evolution de Montpelier, France. “Genome-wide macroevolutionary signatures of key innovations in butterflies colonizing new host plants.”
2020, Fall
Speaker: Emilie Snell-Rood, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, USA. “Nutritional constraints on brain and life history evolution across butterflies.”
Speaker: Jaret Daniels, McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA. “Safeguarding Royalty: Efforts to Combat Monarch Population Declines in Florida (and Beyond).”
Speaker: Marianne Elias, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France. “The puzzle of evolution of transparent wings in aposematic, mimetic butterflies.”
Speaker: Erica Westerman, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, USA. “Why do we like different things? Using butterflies to understand diversity in preferences.”
Speaker: Kathleen Prudic, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA. “Precision conservation takes flight in butterflies using citizen and data science.”
Speakers: Krushnamegh Kunte research group, National Center for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bengaluru, India. “Evolution and Developmental Genetics of Mimicry in Butterflies.”
“Thomas C. Emmel Seminar Series”
2023, Fall
Speaker: William (Bill) J. Cooper. Professor Emeritus, University of California, Irvine, CA. “The Butterflies of Iguazu Falls, Argentina”
Speaker: Olivia Maule, Rhys Campo, Nicole Lunsford, and Aidan Bloch. McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. “Undergraduate research at the McGuire Center”
Speaker: Cristina Dockx and Bernie Mach. McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, and Urban Landscape Entomology Lab, Entomology & Nematology Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA. “Migration of Eastern North American monarch butterflies via the South-east and the Atlantic: evidence from stable isotopes, thin layer chromatography, DNA and phenotype (by Cristina Dockx)”; ”Integrated pest and pollinator management strategies for wildlife-friendly ornamental plants (by Bernie Mach)”
Speaker: Bob Belmont, Ivone de Bem Oliveira, Sarah Steele Cabrera, Andrei Sourakov. McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. “What I did last summer… A synopsis of recent lepidopterological research and activities”
2023, Spring
Speaker: Debbie Matthews Lott, Jim Hayden, Riley Gott, and Taylor Pierson, McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. “Lepidoptera Inventory of DeLuca Preserve, Florida” Watch Recording
Speaker: Johanna Gomez de la Torre, Mariposas de Mindo, Ecuador, Vanessa Wilches Restrepo, Alas de Colombia, Colombia, Jacob Olander, Heliconius Butterfly Works, Ecuador, Ryan Fessenden, Butterfly Rainforest at the Florida Museum of Natural History, USA, and Kimberly Kelly, CT Science Center, USA, International Association of Butterfly Exhibitors and Suppliers. “Butterflies: Conservation, Education, Community” Watch Recording
Speaker: Joe Martinez, McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. “Where do subfamilies end and families begin?”
2022, Fall
Speaker: Juliette Rubin, McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. “Investigating the role of predation as an evolutionary driver of elaborate traits in insects”
Speakers: Lillian Hendrick, Amanda Markee, and Riley Gott, McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. “Three graduate research projects at the McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity”
2022, Spring
Speaker: Keating Godfrey, McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA. “Sociality, sensory systems, and brain evolution in Hymenoptera”
Speaker: Robert Gallardo, Pro Nature Honduras Foundation, “Emerald Valley”, Honduras. “The Butterflies of Honduras”
Speaker: Charlie Covell, McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA. “Seventy-one years with Lepidoptera”
Speaker: Chase Kimmel, McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA. “Understanding three rare bees of the southeastern USA”