2024 HCCE Symposium at Lake Tahoe
The Hitchcock Center for Chemical-Ecology at the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) was founded in 2011 with a specific focus on investigating how organisms interact with their surroundings. This includes studying the chemical signals and cues that are essential in these interactions. The center organizes a symposium at Lake Tahoe that brings together professionals and interested parties in the field of chemical-ecology to exchange ideas on relevant current and future research topics in this field and other related areas.
Coming Soon
The schedule will be published soon.
May 28th, 2024-May 31st, 2024
Thursday, June 8th, 2023
10am
Arrive and Check-in UNR @ Tahoe
11:00am-12:15pm
Lunch
12:20pm-12:45pm
Opening Remarks
State of the Hitchcock Center for Chemical Ecology
Christopher S. Jeffrey, Department of Chemistry, Director of the HCCE
12:50pm-1:40pm
Keynote Talk
"Chemical Ecology of Plant Defense and Multi-trophic interactions: Bad Bugs, Pungent Parasites and Toxic Travelers"
Jared Ali, Penn. State University, Director, Center for Chemical Ecology and Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Lloyd Huck Endowed Chair of Chemical Ecology
1:50pm-2:05pm
Short Format Talk
Chasing Variation: Ecological Approaches to Natural Product Discovery
Casey Philbin, Research Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry and Hitchcock Center for Chemical-Ecology
2:08pm-2:23pm
Short Format Talk
Skin anti-microbial peptide profiles and seasonal disease dynamics in frog populations
Carolina Lambertini, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Nevada—Reno
2:26pm-2:41pm
Short Format Talk
How intra-population chemical diversity shapes specialist herbivore communities
Devon Picklum, Ph.D. candidate, Ecology Evolution and Conservation Biology Program, University of Nevada—Reno
2:45pm-2:55pm
Break
2:55pm-3:10pm
Short Format Talk
Herbivores disrupt clinal variation in plant phytochemical responses to water limitation
Aramee Diethelem, Ph.D. candidate, Ecology Evolution and Conservation Biology Program, University of Nevada—Reno
3:13pm-3:28pm
Short Format Talk
Phytochemical disturbances during a spongy moth outbreak
Celso Ricardo de Oliveira Júnior, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Wisconsin—Madison
3:30pm-3:45pm
Short Format Talk
Redox behavior and detailed structural analysis of cyanobacterial pigment scytonemin: Implications in ultraviolet screening action
Tanzil Mahmud, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Chemistry, University of Nevada—Reno
3:48pm-4:10pm
Short Format Talk
Toxic nectar and bee kombucha: chemistry mediates plant and pollinator interactions with microbes
Rachel Lee Vanette, Associate Professor, Department of Entomology and Nematology, UC Davis
4:15pm-5:05pm
Keynote Talk
"From paracaseolide to ottelione A to the HDDA reaction. Subtitle: On the value of persistence, details, and 'the little things'"
Thomas R. Hoye, Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
5:15pm-6:45pm
Reception and Dynamic Poster Session
Sponsored by Pacific Pharmaceutical Services
7:00pm
Dinner and Awards
Friday, June 9th, 2023
8:30am-10:00am
Breakfast and Closing Remarks
Lora A. Richards (UNR Biology), Lee A. Dyer (UNR Biology), Matthew J. Tucker (UNR Chemistry)