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) PRESENTER: Stephen T. Sharrett |
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) PRESENTER: Madison Biesinger |
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) PRESENTER: Kristen Hillegass |
16:05 | The nitrogen content in mosses along a transect shows little relationship with the guano of the penguin colony. (abstract) PRESENTER: Angélica Casanova-Katny |
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) PRESENTER: Natalia Mossmann Koch |
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) PRESENTER: Nicholas McLetchie |
15:15 | Examining the relationship between sporophyte morphology and resource transport rates in mosses (abstract) PRESENTER: Isabel Hildesheim |
15:20 | Unraveling the Tug of War: Investigating Parent-Offspring Conflict in Mosses (abstract) PRESENTER: Vishal Nandha Kennedy |
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) PRESENTER: Alejandrina Barcenas-Pena |
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) |