Speakers

The speakers were selected through an open call and represent a large portion of the diversity of Latin American evolutionary biologists. Six speakers are early career researchers and two are senior researchers.

Pablo S. Milla Carmona (;@millacarmonia [9]) is a postdoc at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council of Argentina. He studies evolutionary processes at different scales from a morphological and quantitative perspective.
 
 
 
 
 

Claudia Maturana Bobadilla (;@CsMaturana [10]) is a postdoc at the Institute of Ecology and Biodiversity of Chile. She studies the distribution patterns and spatial structuring processes of the genetic diversity of freshwater crustaceans in Antarctic and sub-Antarctic regions. Photo copyright: KarinGérard
 
 
 
 
 
Angie S. Reyes (;@asofiareyes [11]) is a master student at the Universidad de los Andes, Colombia. She studies the evolution, genetic basis, and neuroanatomy of social and reproductive behaviors of vertebrates.
 
 
 
 
 
 
Rosa Alicia Jiménez (;@RosaAJJimenezB [12]) is a professor and curator of the bird collection of the Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala. She studies the processes that generate and maintain the phenotypic and genotypic diversity as well as those shaping the geographic distribution of species.
 
 
 
 
 
Sergio Nigenda-Morales (;@SergioNigenda [13]) is a postdoc at the Center for Research and Advanced Studies of Mexico. He studies the effect of demographic and environmental changes on the adaptive potential of wild populations of mammals.
 
 
 
 
 
 
Laura Sierra-Botero (;@seisilabas [14]) is a biologist from the Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia. She studies the ecological interactions between insects and their host plants, she also leads science communication projects.
 
 
 
 
 
 
Valeria Paula Carreira (;@CarreiraVale [15]) is a professor at the Universidad de Buenos Aires and a researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council of Argentina. She studies the variation of adaptive traits in Drosophila species and its relationship with flight capacity.
 
 
 
 
 
Hugh Drummond is an emeritus researcher at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. He has studied family conflict and other topics in blue-footed boobies for four decades, using direct observations and monitoring individuals throughout their lives.
 
 
 
 
 
 
Program

The talks will cover a diversity of study groups, research questions, and methodological approaches. Attendees will be able to ask questions to the speakers in either Spanish or English and the talks will be spaced by multiple breaks. In the last session, attendees will be able to interact with each other to discuss the challenges and opportunities of doing evolutionary biology research in Latin America.

Workshop on publishing at Evolution

SSE will also offer a free virtual workshop on how to publish articles in Evolution [16]. This workshop will be held the day after the symposium, on Thursday, October 27, 2022, and will be taught in Spanish by four Evolution associate editors:

• Nicole Valenzuela, Iowa State University


• Santiago Ramírez, University of California Davis 


• Aida Gómez-Robles, University College London 


• Juan Diego Gaitán-Espitia, University of Hong Kong

In the first part of the workshop, participants will have the opportunity to address all of their concerns about how the journal's editorial process works. In the second part, participants will review some sample manuscripts guided by the editors to identify the elements that contribute to the editorial success of a manuscript in Evolution.

This workshop is also an opportunity to discuss at length whether there are mismatches between the type of research that Evolution seeks to publish and the type of research that the evolutionary biology community in Latin America is pursuing, and how common ground can be found. 

Workshop time
9:00 am - 11:00 am          Guatemala, Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador
10:00 am - 12:00 pm        Colombia, México, Perú, Ecuador, Panamá
11:00 am - 1:00 pm          USA EDT, Puerto Rico, Bolivia, Cuba, Venezuela
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm          Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay

Code of conduct

Registration for the symposium and workshop is considered an agreement to abide by Safe Evolution [17]’s code of conduct. SSE is committed to creating an environment where everyone can participate without experiencing harassment, discrimination, or similar unwelcome, exclusionary behavior.  All meeting participants must treat others with respect and consideration. 

Registration

Registration for the symposium and workshop will be open until Tuesday, October 25, 2022. To register, please fill out the following form: https://forms.gle/H7nLTF7sBq2NjVNg8

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Participants will receive an email in the days prior to the symposium and workshop with Zoom links.