ABLS 2024: THE AMERICAN BRYOLOGICAL AND LICHENOLOGICAL SOCIETY (ABLS) 2024 ANNUAL MEETING
PROGRAM

Days: Friday, July 12th Saturday, July 13th

Friday, July 12th

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14:00-15:30 Session 1
14:00
Making the case for lichen and bryophyte collections - a curator's perspective (abstract)
14:15
Mytabolites: a new computer program from the Consortium of Lichen Herbaria for the identification of secondary metabolites based on thin-layer chromatography plates (abstract)
PRESENTER: Frank Bungartz
14:30
Revisiting Species Boundaries in the Parmotrema perforatum Group Using RADseq and Population Genomics: Insights from New Population Sampling (abstract)
PRESENTER: Todd Widhelm
14:45
Rarity, cause or consequence: Comparative population genomics of six lichenized fungi with contrasting range sizes, life histories, and morphologies (abstract)
15:00
Mobile Genetic Elements in Rare, Threatened, and Range-Restricted Lichenized Fungi (abstract)
PRESENTER: Julianna Paulsen
15:15
Green algal diversity in lichen thalli: metagenomic insights from long-read sequencing (abstract)
PRESENTER: Jessica Allen
15:20
Assessment of Photobiont Associations in Lichens of the Physciaceae Family (abstract)
15:25
Trait-based risk assessment of cyanolichens (abstract)
PRESENTER: Amanda Chandler
16:00-17:20 Session 2
16:00
Variation in fungal associations in the tropical liverwort Marchantia inflexa from different habitats (abstract)
16:05
The nitrogen content in mosses along a transect shows little relationship with the guano of the penguin colony. (abstract)
16:20
Examining bryophyte community changes in the southern Appalachians using herbarium records (abstract)
PRESENTER: Eric Shershen
16:35
Drivers of epiphytic lichen community composition in North Cascades and Olympic National Parks, Pacific Northwest, USA (abstract)
PRESENTER: Meaghan Petix
16:50
Functional composition of bryophytes at cave entrances across a disturbance gradient. (abstract)
PRESENTER: Morghan McCool
17:05
The Prairie State: Using Ecological Niche Modeling to Predict Distributions of Early Land Plants (abstract)
Saturday, July 13th

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14:00-15:30 Session 3
14:00
Understanding the effects of urbanization on lichen communities in Minnesota to bring biomonitoring closer to the public (abstract)
14:15
Plasticity in response to light and water availability in Conocephalum salebrosum Szweyk., Buczk. & Odrzyk (Conocephalaceae) (abstract)
PRESENTER: Jonathan Moore
14:30
Differential water holding capacity in bryophyte species and organizational levels (abstract)
PRESENTER: Meghan Lake
14:45
Surviving the heat in the tropics: Exploring intraspecific variation in heat resilience of Marchantia inflexa across varied light habitats. (abstract)
PRESENTER: Hansika Herath
15:00
Relating photosynthetic traits to sexual reproductive traits in Marchantia inflexa (abstract)
15:15
Examining the relationship between sporophyte morphology and resource transport rates in mosses (abstract)
15:20
Unraveling the Tug of War: Investigating Parent-Offspring Conflict in Mosses (abstract)
16:00-17:35 Session 4
16:00
Genome architecture, secondary metabolite profiles, and morphological diversity in the Cladonia chlorophaea group (abstract)
PRESENTER: Devin Mumey
16:05
What’s in a Name: Advancing Bryophyte Conservation through the Development of a North American Consensus Checklist of Mosses, Liverworts, and Hornworts (abstract)
PRESENTER: Scott Schuette
16:20
Deconstructing White Imperialist Paradigms in Science: Integrating Interdisciplinary Frameworks into Biological Research (abstract)
PRESENTER: Meg Lake
16:35
Reference-Based Restriction-Site-Associated DNA Sequencing Data Are Useful for Species Delineation in a Recently Diverged Asexually Reproducing Species Complex (Parmeliaceae, Ascomycota) (abstract)
16:50
Aquatic transitions and interspecific relationships in Fissidens mosses (abstract)
PRESENTER: Julia Butler
17:05
INTEGRATION OF TRADITIONAL TAXONOMY WITH DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY (abstract)
PRESENTER: David Wagner
17:20
A Snapshot of Ohio Lichen Diversity 131 Years Ago: The Kellerman Displays for the 1893 Chicago Exposition (abstract)