Lab meetings
The lab meets every week during the semester. The day, time and room change each semester, so check the current one below.
No upcoming meetings are scheduled yet.
Schedule
Fall 2026
Wednesday at 2:00pm, In-person & Zoom
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Lab overview
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No meeting this week
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USAH-Atlas Project
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Intro: past experience and PhD objectives
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Internship update
Michael -
Paper: Applying Cultural Evolution to Address Climate and Environmental Challenges
Slides or files →Everyone -
PCA for city-level clusters
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New methods
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Attend Sarah's CAMBIUM Talk - @ ENR2, rm S215, 2-3pm
Event details → -
Sharing tips and tricks!
Everyone -
Community science from GBIF
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Professional development: marketing in science and CV/research statement
Everyone -
Projects and updates
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Paper: Hottest year in recorded history compounds global biodiversity risks
Slides or files →Everyone -
Paper: Beyond Co-Occurrence: Multi-Scale evidence for segregation dominated plant networks in the French Alps
Slides or files →Everyone
Other activities
Important: Kirans talk + this paper need to be rescheduled
Summer 2026
Wednesday at 1:00pm, Zoom
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No meeting this week!
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TBD
To be announced -
Coextinction project
Coworking -
Practice talk
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TBD
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Presenting a talk
Miles -
Presenting a talk
Michael -
TBD
Spring 2026
Thursdays at 2:00pm, Harvill 320 or Zoom
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Organizing spring meetings
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InfoSci Presentation
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Lab writing retreat updates
Everyone -
Predictions for wildfire updates
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Adaptive radiation comparison update
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Practice for presentation
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Updates/cowork on misc papers/cowork on coextinction
Everyone -
Go over NEON/funding
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WBM paper discussion
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Go over questions or anything missing from framework - Nina is joining us
Coworking -
TBD
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Updates and going over different questions/feedback
Everyone -
Practice for presentation
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Work on proposal
Coworking -
Practice Presentation
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Retreat presentation
Michael -
TBD
To be announced
Other activities
Journal club
Second Thursday of the month, 3:30 pm
| Date of Lab Meeting | Led by | Paper |
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| January 22nd | Everyone | Discussion |
| February 19th | Kiran | When are hypotheses useful in ecology and evolution? |
| March 19th | Cristian | Multiple bursts of speciation in Madagascar’s endangered lemurs |
| April 16th | Kristen | One mother for two species via obligate cross-species cloning in ants |
| May 21st | Ian/Michael | TBD |
Professional development
Third Thursday of the month, 3:30 pm
| Date of Lab Meeting | Activity | Led by |
|---|---|---|
| January | Discussion | Everyone |
| February | Linder et al. (2020) - Chapter 15 and 18 | Kristen |
| March | Linder et al. (2020) - Chapter 22 and 23 | Kiran |
| April | TBD | TBD |
| May | TBD | TBD |
Misc (hikes, general activities)
| Date of Meeting | Activity | Led by |
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| January 31st | Hike | Cristian |
| February | Possible Ben's Bells | TBD |
| March | Biosphere 2 | Cristian |
| April | TBD | TBD |
Fall 2025
Thursdays 2:00pm, Harvill 320 or Zoom
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Informal discussion
Kristen, Kiran, Ian, Cristian -
Check-in
Kristen, Kiran, Ian -
TBD
To be announced -
Intro Meeting to Fall Semester
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SSARP suggestions
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Discussion on current tasks
Group led -
Pratice talk
Michael Nafis -
TBD
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TBD
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TBD
Lab members (Point of contact: Kristen) -
General meeting
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TBD
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TBD
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Group door design!
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Paper discussion
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TBD
Michael Nafis -
TBD
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TBD
lab retreat V2 (discussion) -
TBD
Other activities
Journal club
Second Thursday of the month, 3:30 pm
| Date of Lab Meeting | Led by | Paper |
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| September | Delaney Scott-Martin (LIFE) + Kiran Basava (Mistakes) | LIFE: A metric for mapping the impact of land-cover change on global extinctions AND Common mistakes in ecological niche models |
| October | Ian Estacio | Land use change and pollinator extinction debt in exurban landscapes |
| November | Kristen Martinet | Coextinctions dominate future vertebrate losses from climate and land use change |
| December | Cristian Román | The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly |
Professional development
Third Thursday of the month, 3:30 pm
| Date of Lab Meeting | Activity | Led by |
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| September | Publication workshop | Kristen Martinet |
| October | Application materials | Cristian |
| November | Grants | Ian Estacio |
| December | Book chapter | Kiran Basava |
Misc (hikes, general activities)
| Date of Lab Meeting | Activity | Led by |
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| September | Hike at Mt Lemmon | Cristian |
| September | Front door | Kennedy |
| October | Parker Canyon Lake | Kiran |
| November | Biosphere2 visit | Cristian |
Lab Writing Retreat
14th and 15th of October, 2025, from 9:30 am - 4:00 pm
Discussion: Given a community in which one or more species went extinct, why did other species in the community not go extinct? How did land coverage change in this area? What are the environmental factors that led to the extinction or survival of the species?
Schedule Day One:
- Intro – Project description, questions, goals
- Data collection (species lists, shape files)
- Group into partners based on dataset
- Lunch
- Check in: how things are going with data collection, what we might need to change
- Run the analysis (create a model that incorporates the data we collected, determine which variables are most important in a given species’ extinction)
- Write Methods (if there is time)
Day Two:
- Recap of Day One (what we got done, what we still need to do)
- Finish Methods
- Write Results
- Team up to write results for different parts of the analysis
- Figure drafts
- Lunch
- Check in: how things are going with writing, address any snags
- Write Discussion
Spring 2025
Wednesdays time TBD, Harvill 320 or Zoom
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Intro meeting
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Intro to SSARP and feedback on vignettes
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Practice presentation on BUSCO
Michael Nafis -
Current progress on the Animal Culture Database
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Agent-based simulations for MAB 2025
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Case study for ABC-based framework on co-phylogenetic systems
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Lab discussion on current projects
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Island radiations approached from testudinids & A summary of professional goals
Paige Cherry & Kennedy Gezella -
SSARP
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Historic climatic conditions between recently extinct species and their sister taxa
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Progress on capstone project – tortoises (website + GitHub repo)
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Session to update websites
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Session to discuss current work (proposals, manuscripts, etc)
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No meeting/informal meeting
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Science of Science and recent research in InfoSci
Sarah, Andrea, and Jinyu (3 pm) -
Research discussion
Link →CAMBIUM Meeting -
Cristian, group discussion
CAMBIUM discussion, Saturday hike, and summer work
Other activities
Journal club
Second Thursday of the month, 4 pm
| Date of Lab Meeting | Led by | Paper |
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| January | Discussion on the sequence | TBD |
| February | Yichao Zeng | Biogeography confounds the signal of cospeciation in Batesian mimicry |
| March | Kiran Basava | Science of science: A multidisciplinary field studying science or 2 |
| April | Paige Cherry/Kristen Martinet | Ecological erosion and expanding extinction risk of sharks and rays (https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adn1477) |
| May* | TBD | TBD |
*Need to review notes from initial meeting.
Professional development
Third Thursday of the month, 3 pm
| Date of Lab Meeting | Activity | Led by |
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| January | Collaborative workshop, CVs, research statements | Danielle Van Boxel |
| February | Miller Vick – Chapters 3–5 | Kristen Martinet |
| March | Invited speaker 2: Daniel Portik (10 mins), Miller Vick – Chapters 6–8 | Ian Estacio |
| April | Invited speaker 3: Heidi Steiner (10 mins), Linder – Chapters 1–4 | Kiran Basava |
| May | Invited speaker 3: TBD (10 mins), Linder – Chapters 5–7 | Cristian Roman |
Misc (hikes, general activities)
| Date of Lab Meeting | Activity | Led by |
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| January | 320D collab art session | Ellie and Isabella |
| February | 320 door art session | Kiran and Paige |
| March | Hike | Yichao |
| April | Biosphere2 visit | Cristian |
| May 7th | iShowcase 12-2 pm | Paige and Eleanor |
| May 10th | DDL Hike | Cristian |
Fall 2024
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Welcome to the Data Diversity Lab
Dr. Roman-Palacios/Hector Garcia -
BUSCO
Michael -
A flexible method for estimating tip diversification rates across a range of speciation and extinction scenarios
Everyone -
General updates and meeting schedule
MSc Student/Lab member -
Linear Mixed Models + GWAS
Michael Nafis -
Hidden state models improve state-dependent diversification approaches, including biogeographical models
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Summer project -Shep.Herd
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ABC + co-phylogenetics
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Relational databases
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Pulotu: Database of Austronesian Supernatural Beliefs and Practice + D-PLACE: A Global Database of Cultural, Linguistic and Environmental Diversity
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Local Climate Zones for modeling air temperatures in cities: A worldwide parametrization and assessment
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A biologist's guide to model selection and causal inference
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Austronesian headhunting
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Kristen (prfb discussion or mystery activity)
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Detecting the Dependence of Diversification on Multiple Traits from Phylogenetic Trees and Trait Data
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Testudines/databases
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Results from ABC analyses
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Recent proposals + tree thinking
Summer 2024
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Detecting Hidden Diversification Shifts in Models of Trait-Dependent Speciation and Extinction
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Diatoms diversify and turn over faster in freshwater than marine environments
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Community through Culture: From Insects to Whales
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Michael led research tutorial
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A flexible method for estimating tip diversification rates across a range of speciation and extinction scenarios
Spring 2024
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Welcome to the Data Diversity Lab
Hector Garcia/Dr. Roman-Palacios -
BARNstorm & Transform: Modeling with bayesian additive regression methods
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Weed and crop discrimination in row crops
Evan McGinnis -
Species Distribution Models vs Resurvey
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Stochastic Quasi Variational Inequality and Nash Games
Zeinab Alizadeh -
Lab grants and updates
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Mobility, Census tracks, Air quality
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Bayesian Regressions
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Enhanced PPE
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Queer Mathematicians in History
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City 3D shapes
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iShowcase preparation
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RCNN Facades
Fall 2023
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Welcome to the Data Diversity Lab
Hector Garcia/Dr. Roman-Palacios -
Introduction to the use of machine learning in biology
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BARNstorm & Transform: Modeling with bayesian additive regression methods
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Analysis of Academic and Socioeconomic Data on College Admissions Test in Colombia
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Identifiying Environmentally-Comparable Cities Across the Globe for Urban Evolutionary Ecology Research
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Assessment of the long-term effects of recent climate-related local extinction and range shifts on the trophic structure and dynamics of marine communities
Daniela Morales -
Machine Learning uses in society
Dr. Roman Palacios/Daniela Morales, Hector Garcia-Yi Chien Lee, Danielle Van Boxel/Ethan Davis
