Selected recorded talks

15,000 Skeletons, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Phenotype

  • Event: 3rd Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology
  • Date: 2024-07-30
  • Location: Montreal, QC, Canada

Description
Jake attended the 2024 Evolution meeting, where he gave a talk on his research into applications of computer vision to studies of bird skeleton evolution. His talk, titled (in jest) '15,000 Skeletons, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Phenotype'.

Tempo and Mode: Applying Phyogenetic Natural History to Integrate Micro- and Macrovolution

  • Event: Invited Seminar
  • Date: 2023-03-23
  • Location: University of Toronto

Description
In this talk, I present research which applies concepts from 'Phylogenetic Natural History' to examine macroevolutionary patterns, integrating across different scientific disciplines. I concentrate on the effects of the end-Cretaceous mass extinction on genome evolution, using data science methods to understand evolutionary changes in surviving species. Specifically, I investigate how shifts in bird development, size, and metabolism correspond to genomic evolution, providing insights into the broader impacts of the end-Cretaceous transition on biodiversity.

EARTH 437 Lecture - Modern Birds

  • Event: Guest Lecture
  • Date: 2021-12-07
  • Location: University of Michigan

Description
A general overview of the history of bird systematics, presented as a guest lecture for the University of Michigan Paleobiology course

Molecular Early Burst associted with the Diversification of birds at the K-Pg boundary

  • Event: Invited Seminar, host: Dr. Lauren Sallan
  • Date: 2022-10-12
  • Location: Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology

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Molecular Early Burst associted with the Diversification of birds at the K-Pg boundary

  • Event: Department of EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminar
  • Date: 2022-9-20
  • Location: University of Michigan

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Ghosts in the Machine of diversification analysis

  • Event: Department of EEB Virtual Seminar
  • Date: 2021-10-7
  • Location: University of Michigan

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Molecular Early Burst at the K--Pg

  • Event: Invited Seminar
  • Date: 2022-7-21
  • Location: The III Meeting of Systematics, Biogeography, and Evolution

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Embracing uncertainty: Using genomic, anatomical, and life-history data to integrate the micro and macroevolution of birds

  • Event: Invited Seminar, host: Dr. Liam Revell
  • Date: 2020-11-12
  • Location: UMass Boston

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Genomic phylogeography of the White-crowned Manakin

  • Event: North American Ornithological Congress
  • Date: 2020-8-10
  • Location: Virtual

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PhD. Defense Seminar

  • Event: Jacob Berv Exit Seminar
  • Date: 2019-5-20
  • Location: Cornell University

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Evolution 2018 Ernst Mayr Presentation

  • Event: Ernst Mayr Award Talk
  • Date: 2018-8-19
  • Location: Montpellier, France

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