Lepinars
Lepinars are biweekly seminars by Lepidoptera researchers from different parts of the world: Colombia, England, Finland, France, Germany, Netherlands, Panama, Puerto Rico, Sweden, Switzerland and USA. We meet via Zoom at 10AM EST zone.
Contact Joana Meier, Gabriela Montejo-Kovacevich or Luca Livraghi if you wish to be added to the seminar email list.
2022
| Date | Talk | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| Dec 12, 2022 | Historical biogeography and macroevolution of neotropical butterflies | Pavel Matos (Czech Academy of Sciences, CZ) |
| Nov 28, 2022 | Chromosome evolution and speciation in Brenthis fritillary butterflies | Alex McKintosh (U of Edinburgh, UK) |
| Nov 14, 2022 | TBA | Nicol Rueda (Un del Rosario, CO) |
| Oct 31, 2022 | TBA | Christine Merlin (Texas A&M, US) |
| Oct 17, 2022 | TBA | Peter Nguyen (U of South Bohemia) |
| 0ct 03, 2022 | Evolutionary dynamics of genome size and content during the adaptive radiation of Heliconiini butterflies | Francesco Cicconardi (U Bristol, UK) |
| Sep 19, 2022 | The Danaus W chromosome and Bombyx testes single-cell transcriptomics | Jaime Walters |
| Sep 5, 2022 | Pheromones as reproductive barriers in the Heliconiini radiation | Bruna Cama (U York, UK) |
| Jun 13, 2022 | The cis-regulatory architecture of butterfly’s wing pattern groundplan | Anyimilehidi Mazo-Vargas, (George Washington U, US) |
| May 16, 2022 | Exploring the regulatory role of bric-a-brac in maintaining structural and color pattern integrity in nymphalid butterflies | Martik Chatterjee (Cornell U, US) |
| Apr 4, 2022 | The genetic basis and evolutionary significance of sex pheromone variation in moths | Astrid Groot (U of Amsterdam, NL) |
| Mar 21, 2022 | Hybridization to extinction revisited: gene flow across species boundaries as biotic resistance | Jeremy Andersen (U of Massachusetts Amherst, US) |
| Mar 7, 2022 | Examining the maintenance of polymorphism in aposematism: lessons from a ‘non-model’ model system | Swanne P Gordon (Washington U in St. Louis, US) |
| Feb 21, 2022 | The ecology of complex polymorphism | Johanna Mappes (U Helsinki, FI) |
| Feb 7, 2022 | The evolution of complex wing-pattern supergenes in Danaus butterflies | Rishi De-Kayne (U of Edinburgh, UK) |
| Jan 24, 2022 | Evolutionary trade-offs between male secondary sexual traits revealed by a phylogeny of the hyperdiverse tribe Eumaeini (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) | Wendy Valencia-Montoya (Harvard U, US) |
| Jan 10, 2022 | Lepidoptera phylogenomics and the uses of museomics | Niklas Wahlberg (Lund U, SE) |
2021
| Date | Talk | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| Dec 13, 2021 | Historical biogeography from a supertree of Nymphalidae butterflies and a macroevolutionary perspective on the evolution of mimicry in the tribe Ithomiini | Nicolas Chazot (University of Agricultural Sciences, SE) |
| Nov 15, 2021 | The evolution of chromosome structure in Lepidoptera | Charlotte Wright (Wellcome Sanger Institute, UK) |
| Nov 1, 2021 | The scent chemistry of Heliconius | Stefan Schulz (TU Braunschweiz, DE) |
| Oct 18, 2021 | Hard to catch: experimental evidence supports evasive mimicry | Erika Páez (CNRS, FR) |
| Sep 20, 2021 | Dissecting the ecological, evolutionary, life-history and molecular influencers of cyanogenic chemical defense variation in Heliconius erato | Anniina Mattila (U Helsinki, FI) |
| Jul 12, 2021 | Mechanisms underlying behavioral variation in Heliconius and Bicyclus butterflies | Erica Westerman (U of Arkansas, US) |
| Jun 28, 2021 | Full likelihood analysis of divergence and introgression in the erato-sara group of Heliconius | Yuttapong Thawornwattana (Harvard U, US) |
| Jun 14, 2021 | The big and the small of it: Comparing complete, diploid assemblies of vulnerable and common butterfly species exhibiting dramatic genome size variation | Mahul Chakraborty (UC Irvine, US) |
| Jun 7, 2021 | When species meet again – secondary contact zones of Erebia butterflies | Kay Lucek (U Basel, CH) |
| May 17, 2021 | Genetics of sexually dimorphic UV on Dogface wings | Brian Counterman (Auburn U, US) |
| May 10, 2021 | Mushroom body expansion in Heliconius butterflies | Stephen Montgomery (U Bristol, UK) |
| Apr 19, 2021 | Speciation genomics in North American Colias butterflies | Joe Hanly (George Washington U, US) |
| Mar 22, 2021 | Formation, reformation and deformation of structural barriers to gene flow in Danaus butterflies | Simon Martin (U Edinburgh, UK) |
| Mar 8, 2021 | Selection and isolation define a heterogeneous divergence landscape between hybridizing Heliconius butterflies | Steven van Belleghem (U Puerto Rico, PR) |
| Feb 22, 2021 | Pheromones in Heliconius butterflies: Chemical ecology, genetics and behaviour | Kathy Darragh (U Davis, US) |
| Feb 8, 2021 | The evolution of supergenes: insight from mimicry polymorphism in Heliconius numata | Paul Jay (CNRS, FR) |
| Jan 25, 2021 | Convergent morphology and divergent phenology: unravelling the coexistence of mimetic Morpho butterfly species | Camille Le Roy (Institute of Systematic, Evolution and Biodiversity, FR) |
2020
| Date | Talk | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| Dec 14, 2020 | Adaptive diversification of red wing color patterns in Heliconius erato | James Lewis (U Cornell, US) |
| Nov 30, 2020 | Flight and wing shape in the Heliconiini | Lucie Quest (U York, UK / LMU, DE) |
| Nov 16, 2020 | A Flock of Genomes: New and revised genomic resources for 58 species of Heliconiini | Francesco Cicconardi (U Bristol, UK) |
| Nov 2, 2020 | Heliconius mating behaviours affected by light environment during early stages of divergence | Alexander Hausmann (LMU, DE) |
| Oct 19, 2020 | Local adaptation in Heliconius butterflies (beyond mimicry) | Gabriela Montejo-Kovacevich (U Cambridge, UK) |
| Oct 5, 2020 | Genetics of visual mate preference in Heliconius butterflies | Matteo Rossi (LMU, DE) |
| Sep 21, 2020 | Phenotypic plasticity in chemical defence allows butterflies to diversify host use strategies | Erika Pinheiro-de-Castro (U Cambridge, UK) |
| Sep 7, 2020 | Heliconiini butterflies can learn time-dependent reward associations | Wyatt Toure (McGill U, US / STRI, PA) |
| Aug 3, 2020 | Importance of environmental variables in the distribution and natural hybridization of Heliconius butterflies | Nicol Rueda (Un del Rosario, CO) |
| Jul 20, 2020 | The molecular basis of hybrid female sterility in Heliconius pardalinus subspecies | Nate Edelman (Harvard U, US) |
| Jul 6, 2020 | The genetics and evolution of structural colour in Heliconius butterflies | Melanie Brien (U Sheffield / U Cambridge, UK) |
| Jun 22, 2020 | Population genomics of large mimetic radiations | Chris Kozak (STRI, PA) |
| Jun 8, 2020 | QTL for potential wing and genital pheromone compounds show clustering across the genome | Kelsey Byers (U Cambridge, UK) |
| May 25, 2020 | Investigation of wing pattern mutants in a domesticated population of Heliconius melpomene | Joe Hanly (George Washington U, US) |
| May 11, 2020 | The gene cortex controls scale colour identity in Heliconius | Luca Livraghi (U Cambridge, UK) |