This is the first year that multiple lab members attended the ESA meeting in National Harbor. To be fair, it is the first year that the lab counts with multiple members!
Insect flower visitors lab members at ESA
Bruno de Medeiros presented his ongoing research on applying large language models (LLMs) in taxonomy.
Diego Souza presented on his progess in using adaptive sampling in nanopore sequencers to generate phylogenetic datasets.
Diego calmly reading a book in perfect lighting after getting done with talks in the first day (photo by Elizabeth Postema)
ElizabethPostema and Abigail Magland joined the lab more recently, presenting on their previous research: an ingenious poster on UV reflectance in swallowtail butterflies and a a presentation on the evolution of eyes in beetle flower visitors.
Elizabeth presenting her poster with visible and UV photos.
Abigail presenting on evolution of flower beetles