program
Sunday Oct. 2nd
5:30-7:00 pm Opening Reception at UVA Open Grounds
Monday Oct 3rd
8:30-9:00 Coffee and pastries (Robertson Hall)
9:00-5:00 Talks and posters
6:30 Reception and 7:00 Dinner at UVA Colonnade Club
Tuesday Oct 4th
8:30-9:00 Coffee and pastries (Robertson Hall)
9:00-5:30 Talks and posters
6:30 Dinner at Basil Mediterranean Bistro
Wednesday Oct 5th
Skills Workshops
8:30-10:30 Individual stochastiticy: An introduction to demographic models and analysis (Newcomb Hall 389)
and
Comparative demography using COMPADRE and COMADRE
(Newcomb Hall 376)
11:00-1:00 Advanced approaches to population modeling using Integral Projection Models (Newcomb Hall 389)
and
Analyzing transient population dynamics (Newcomb Hall 376)
5:30-7:00 pm Opening Reception at UVA Open Grounds
Monday Oct 3rd
8:30-9:00 Coffee and pastries (Robertson Hall)
9:00-5:00 Talks and posters
6:30 Reception and 7:00 Dinner at UVA Colonnade Club
Tuesday Oct 4th
8:30-9:00 Coffee and pastries (Robertson Hall)
9:00-5:30 Talks and posters
6:30 Dinner at Basil Mediterranean Bistro
Wednesday Oct 5th
Skills Workshops
8:30-10:30 Individual stochastiticy: An introduction to demographic models and analysis (Newcomb Hall 389)
and
Comparative demography using COMPADRE and COMADRE
(Newcomb Hall 376)
11:00-1:00 Advanced approaches to population modeling using Integral Projection Models (Newcomb Hall 389)
and
Analyzing transient population dynamics (Newcomb Hall 376)
Detailed Schedule
October 3 (Monday)
Morning
8:30-9:00 Coffee and muffins
9:00-10:40 Talks and posters
9:00 Deborah Roach Welcome
9:20 Anni Hämäläinen Fitness consequences of peak reproductive effort
9:40 Natalie Kerr (poster) Age-specific demography and lifetime reproductive success of native and exotic Pieris butterflies
9:50 Maya Groner (poster) Influence of life history plasticity on disease
10:10 Aldo Compagnoni (poster) Climatic variability and population dynamics
10:20 Daniel Harris (poster) Peruvian Genome Project: A study in Pre and Post Peruvian Inca Demography and their Evolutionary Dynamics
10:40-11:10 Coffee and Posters
11:10-12:40 Talks
11:10 Spencer Ingley Life-history evolution across stages of divergence
11:30 Kevin Healy Mapping animal life-history strategies using the COMADRE database
11:40 Emily Schultz The importance of within-patch heterogeneity for metapopulation dynamics: applying scale transition theory to a size-structured metapopulation model
11:50 Jennifer Blake-Mahmud Changes in sex expression correlate with health in striped maple, Acer pensylvanicum
12:10 Robert Shriver Bridging the gap between physiology and demography to understand climate change responses of a desert annual plant community
12:20 William Petry Partitioning the linear and non-linear effects of climate change on two-sex population dynamics
Afternoon
12:40-1:40 Lunch
1:40-2:50 Talks and Posters
1:40 Emily Bruns Demography of disease in natural plant populations: host lifespan and the evolution of resistance
2:10 Robert Richardson Probabilistic Integral Population Models
2:20 Silvia Kollerova (poster) Demographics of antibiotic persistance
2:30 Luke Eberhart-Phillips (poster) Demographic origins of avian mating system diversity
2:50 Mary Towner (poster) Fertility variation across American Indian Women in early Oklahoma
3:00-3:30 Coffee and Posters
3:30-5:15 Talks
3:30 Viripi Lummaa Measuring changes in natural selection during a rapid demographic transition in human populations
4:00 Torrance Hanley Effects of genetic diversity on oyster demography on survivorship, growth and recruitment of the eastern oyster across sites
4:20 Tom Miller Eco-evolutionary dynamics of range expansion
4:50 John Haaga (discussion) Research priorities of the National Institute on Aging
6:30 Reception and Dinner (7:00) at the UVA Colonnade Faculty Club
October 4 (Tuesday)
Morning
8:30-9:00 Coffee and muffins
9:00-10:30 Talks and posters
9:00 Mary Shenk (poster) What causes misperception of mortality rates?
9:20 Sean McMahon (poster) TBD-DPT: A chiasmus for Earth Systems Models
9:30 Hiroyuki Yokomizo (poster) Testing the influence of time since introduction on population growth and optimal management
9:40 Siobhán Mattison Adoption and mortality in historical Taiwan
10:00 Holly Prendeville (poster) Life history and population dynamics across latitudes
10:10 Ulrich Steiner (poster) Quantifying hidden individual heterogeneity
10:20 Takada Takenori (poster) The interactive effect of mast-seeding and disturbance on stochastic population growth rate in stage-structured model
10:30-11:00 Coffee and Posters
11:00-12:30 Talks
11:00 Roberto Salguero-Gómez Life history tradeoffs modulate the speed of senescence in animals and plants
11:30 Steven Orzack Why are dinosaurs big and mammals are not?
11:50 Mark Belk Comparative demography of two small stream fishes in response to variable stream flow
12:00 Glenda Wardle Contrasting spatial responses of mammal, reptile and plant populations to environmental change
Afternoon
12:30-2:00 Lunch/UVA Tour/EvoDemo Board Meeting (Rm. 507)
The historical tour will be 45 minutes long and will begin on the steps of Robertson Hall at 1:00
2:00-3:30 Talks
2:00 Jessica E. Metcalf Trade-offs and the causes of mortality: a neglected driver of life history evolution
2:30 Lionel Jouvet Aging patterns in different environments
2:40 Hal Caswell Individual stochasticity dominates the effects of heterogeneity in vital rates
3:00 Lise Aubry Unobserved heterogeneity in vital rates creates a diversity of life history ‘complexes’ in an Antarctic seabird population
3:10 Xi Song The changing demography of multigenerational relationships
3:30-4:00 Coffee
4:00-5:30 Talks
4:00 James Carey Insect biodemography: A 21st century guided tour
4:30 Alexander Scheuerlein The diversity of aging within species
4:50 Carol Horvitz Photosynthetic rates and population dynamics
5:00 Jean-Michel Gaillard Which starts first, reproductive or actuarial senescence?
6:30 Dinner at Basil Mediterranean Bistro
October 5 (Wednesday)
The Workshops will be in Newcomb Hall and for each time period there will be two concurrent workshops. Coffee and Einstein Bagels are available across from Newcomb Hall in the UVA Bookstore. There are many eateries on the first floor of Newcomb.
8:30-10:30
Morning
8:30-9:00 Coffee and muffins
9:00-10:40 Talks and posters
9:00 Deborah Roach Welcome
9:20 Anni Hämäläinen Fitness consequences of peak reproductive effort
9:40 Natalie Kerr (poster) Age-specific demography and lifetime reproductive success of native and exotic Pieris butterflies
9:50 Maya Groner (poster) Influence of life history plasticity on disease
10:10 Aldo Compagnoni (poster) Climatic variability and population dynamics
10:20 Daniel Harris (poster) Peruvian Genome Project: A study in Pre and Post Peruvian Inca Demography and their Evolutionary Dynamics
10:40-11:10 Coffee and Posters
11:10-12:40 Talks
11:10 Spencer Ingley Life-history evolution across stages of divergence
11:30 Kevin Healy Mapping animal life-history strategies using the COMADRE database
11:40 Emily Schultz The importance of within-patch heterogeneity for metapopulation dynamics: applying scale transition theory to a size-structured metapopulation model
11:50 Jennifer Blake-Mahmud Changes in sex expression correlate with health in striped maple, Acer pensylvanicum
12:10 Robert Shriver Bridging the gap between physiology and demography to understand climate change responses of a desert annual plant community
12:20 William Petry Partitioning the linear and non-linear effects of climate change on two-sex population dynamics
Afternoon
12:40-1:40 Lunch
1:40-2:50 Talks and Posters
1:40 Emily Bruns Demography of disease in natural plant populations: host lifespan and the evolution of resistance
2:10 Robert Richardson Probabilistic Integral Population Models
2:20 Silvia Kollerova (poster) Demographics of antibiotic persistance
2:30 Luke Eberhart-Phillips (poster) Demographic origins of avian mating system diversity
2:50 Mary Towner (poster) Fertility variation across American Indian Women in early Oklahoma
3:00-3:30 Coffee and Posters
3:30-5:15 Talks
3:30 Viripi Lummaa Measuring changes in natural selection during a rapid demographic transition in human populations
4:00 Torrance Hanley Effects of genetic diversity on oyster demography on survivorship, growth and recruitment of the eastern oyster across sites
4:20 Tom Miller Eco-evolutionary dynamics of range expansion
4:50 John Haaga (discussion) Research priorities of the National Institute on Aging
6:30 Reception and Dinner (7:00) at the UVA Colonnade Faculty Club
October 4 (Tuesday)
Morning
8:30-9:00 Coffee and muffins
9:00-10:30 Talks and posters
9:00 Mary Shenk (poster) What causes misperception of mortality rates?
9:20 Sean McMahon (poster) TBD-DPT: A chiasmus for Earth Systems Models
9:30 Hiroyuki Yokomizo (poster) Testing the influence of time since introduction on population growth and optimal management
9:40 Siobhán Mattison Adoption and mortality in historical Taiwan
10:00 Holly Prendeville (poster) Life history and population dynamics across latitudes
10:10 Ulrich Steiner (poster) Quantifying hidden individual heterogeneity
10:20 Takada Takenori (poster) The interactive effect of mast-seeding and disturbance on stochastic population growth rate in stage-structured model
10:30-11:00 Coffee and Posters
11:00-12:30 Talks
11:00 Roberto Salguero-Gómez Life history tradeoffs modulate the speed of senescence in animals and plants
11:30 Steven Orzack Why are dinosaurs big and mammals are not?
11:50 Mark Belk Comparative demography of two small stream fishes in response to variable stream flow
12:00 Glenda Wardle Contrasting spatial responses of mammal, reptile and plant populations to environmental change
Afternoon
12:30-2:00 Lunch/UVA Tour/EvoDemo Board Meeting (Rm. 507)
The historical tour will be 45 minutes long and will begin on the steps of Robertson Hall at 1:00
2:00-3:30 Talks
2:00 Jessica E. Metcalf Trade-offs and the causes of mortality: a neglected driver of life history evolution
2:30 Lionel Jouvet Aging patterns in different environments
2:40 Hal Caswell Individual stochasticity dominates the effects of heterogeneity in vital rates
3:00 Lise Aubry Unobserved heterogeneity in vital rates creates a diversity of life history ‘complexes’ in an Antarctic seabird population
3:10 Xi Song The changing demography of multigenerational relationships
3:30-4:00 Coffee
4:00-5:30 Talks
4:00 James Carey Insect biodemography: A 21st century guided tour
4:30 Alexander Scheuerlein The diversity of aging within species
4:50 Carol Horvitz Photosynthetic rates and population dynamics
5:00 Jean-Michel Gaillard Which starts first, reproductive or actuarial senescence?
6:30 Dinner at Basil Mediterranean Bistro
October 5 (Wednesday)
The Workshops will be in Newcomb Hall and for each time period there will be two concurrent workshops. Coffee and Einstein Bagels are available across from Newcomb Hall in the UVA Bookstore. There are many eateries on the first floor of Newcomb.
8:30-10:30
- Individual stochasticity: An introduction to demographic models and analysis (Rm. 389)
- Comparative demography using COMPADRE and COMADRE (Rm. 376)
- Advanced approaches to population modeling using Integral Projection Models (Rm. 389)
- Analyzing transient population dynamics (Rm. 376)