Carl Rothfels
University of British Columbia
Ancient radiations, deep hybridizations, and the evolutionary fate of polyploids

Frank Burbrink
College of Staten Island
The processes that drive diversification and community assemblage
Host: Losos Lab

Christine Bacon
University of Gothenburg
Dynamics of tropical forest evolution

Jeremy Beaulieu
National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis,
University of Tennessee

James Marden
Pennsylvania State University
Flight performance as an interesting quantitative phenotype: organisms, genes and ecology... and how this informs matters of societal importance
Host: Combes Lab

Bert Van Bocxlaer
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution
Patterns and processes of diversification in the late Cenozoic freshwater mollusks of the East African Rift

Paul Rainey
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology & New Zealand Institute for Advanced Study
Cooperation, conflict and the major evolutionary transition to multicellularity
Host: Extavour Lab

Carl Simpson
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution
The macroevolution of coloniality

Yun Zhang 
Harvard University, OEB 
Circuit mechanisms of olfactory learning

Erik Ragsdale
Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology
Developmental control of a dimorphic evolutionary novelty in nematodes