Student Talks

All student talks for OE3C 2020 were pre-recorded and most are still available on our YouTube channel for viewing. You can find links to talks in our digital conference program or below. Talks indicated with an asterisk (*) were removed at the end of the day May 9, 2020 at the presenter’s request. We’ve also created a series of playlists on YouTube for those of us who want to binge all the talks on a particular topic, so check those out too!

Digital Program

Audience Choice Competition

Chosen based on the number of “likes” on YouTube, our OE3C 2020 winning presentations are (as of 5pm EDT on May 9, 2020):

1) Reproductive isolation as a consequence of divergent selection regimes | Harshavardhan Thyagarajan (Queen’s University) [140 likes]

2) Adaptive divergence of seasonally-induced heart plasticity in Pumpkinseed sunfish | Susan Procopio (University of Guelph) [122 likes]

3) Mate loss and territory proximity cause breeding dispersal in Canada jays | Matthew Fuirst (University of Guelph) [113 likes]

Honourable Mention: Black-Legged Tick Impacts on Hematology and Ectoparasite Communities of Mice | Erica Fellin (Laurentian University) [90 likes]

Ecology

Bilgenur Baloglu	How to improve aquatic invertebrate metabarcoding? Evaluate your primers and skip size sorting
Chih Julie Wang	Improving extensive green roof functioning using invasion theory as a management tool*
Christopher Farrow	An environmentally-friendly alternative tracer particle for dispersal studies*
Erica Fellin	*Black-Legged Tick (Ixodes scapularis) Impacts on* Hematology and Ectoparasite Communities of Peromyscus Mice Across Southern Ontario
Erik K. Dean	Asian carps under climate change: modelling Bighead Carp populations in the Great Lakes
Julian Lum	Hydrodynamic characteristics of juvenile unionid mussel habitats
Julia Harvie	Illustrating arthropod farmland biodiversity through metabaroding and distribution modeling
K. MacColl	Recovery of arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungal communities in agricultural soils restored with prairie grassland plants
Kirsten Luck	The Effects of Multiple Stressors on the Ecophysiology of Freshwater Mussels: Flow, Temperature and Turbidity*
Melanie Denommé	Using stable isotopes to determine the effects of diet on metabolic fuel use in the yellow-rumped warbler *(Setophaga coronata coronata)*
Raven Ouellette	Diet: it’s all about location, location, location! How urbanization influences isotopic signatures and oxidative *stress in eastern chipmunks (Tamias striatus)*
Sara Campbell	Temporal changes in functional and taxonomic b- diversity of the Laurentian Great Lakes freshwater fish communities*
S.K. French	Baylisascaris larval migrans in wild rodents and lagomorphs in Ontario: A 30-year retrospective analysis*
Thuong Tran Nguyen	Forest and Conifer Amount around Stopover Sites Matter to Migrating Songbirds—Not in the Ways We Think
Timothy Fernandes	The Woes of Winter Warming: The Impact of Winter Length on the Reproductive Cycle in Pumpkinseed *Sunfish (Lepomis gibbosus)*
Victoria MacPhail	What is the value of community science? Participation in Bumble Bee Watch program increases awareness and skills and contributes to scientific data but user accuracy varies and room for improvement exists*

Ethology

Alexander Hare	*No evidence for stress-mediated kin discrimination in the North American red squirrel (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus)**
David Filice	A meta-analysis of the true effect sizes of winner and loser effects*
Valerie Monckton	Broiler chicks’ motivational strength for different wood shavings and degrees of soiling
Andrew Masson	Planar ears in a 3D world; Larviposition aiming behaviour of the acoustic parasitoid Ormia ochracea (Tachinid \| Diptera)*

Evolution

Harshavardhan Thyagarajan	Speciation in the lab – Reproductive isolation as a consequence of divergent selection regimes*
Jordan Bemmels	Genomic signatures of reinforcement in sympatric populations of a sister-species pair of North American birds*
Katherine Balasingham	Divergent Selection in Visual Opsins in Beloniformes Driven by Habitat and Behaviour*
Katherine Drotos	Functional characteristics of lichen mycobiont genomes
Tanya Irani	Considering the Taxonomic Classification of Escherichia *coli*
Yulong Wei	An Improved Shine-Dalgarno Model Reveals Evolutionary Differences in Cyanobacteria and Chloroplast Translation Initiation

Ecology and Ethology

Alysa Czenze	The Stability of Individual Differences in Activity in *Maturing Sea Lamprey (Petromyzon marinus)*
A.D. DeLeeuw	Should I stay or should I go? Experimentally testing for phenotypically-directed movement behaviour using sunfish ecotypes
Divya Ramachandran	*Intraspecific variation on predation rate in Stratiolaelaps scimitus* (Womersley) (Acari: Mesostigmata) in response to short-term acclimation***
Matthew Fuirst	Till Death Do Us Part: Mate mortality predicts breeding dispersal in Canada jays

Ecology and Evolution

Christina Mozzon	*Raccoon vs. world: The eco-physiological consequences of urbanization on raccoons (Procyon lotor)*
Mumtaz Baig	*Genomic analyses reveal strong population structure and admixture in black rat (Rattus rattus) population in India**
Regan Cross	Do species need to adapt to persist outside their ranges for multiple generations?
Samantha Majoros	Phylogenetic Signal of Sub-Arctic Beetle Communities
Susan Procopio	Seasonally-induced cardiac remodeling and adaptive divergence of heart plasticity in Pumpkinseed (Lepomisgibbosus)